Ohio State Treasurer Posts Lakewood Salaries Online

[Lori Allen _]

Ohio State Treasurer Josh Mandel, through his Treasurer's Transparency Project, has posted online all salaries for most City of Lakewood employees. To access the list, click on the link below and select "city" for entity type. Then, select "Lakewood" under entity and "2014" under year and click the green search button. This will list the names of all city employees (including elected officials) along with their hourly and annual salary for the 2014 year.

http://www.tos.ohio.gov/Local_Salary

[Alex Belisle]

Hmm . . . ? I was looking for a certain "Lakewood Citizen" who works for the City of Lakewood and couldn't find his name listed? Seems like LPD makes out quite well especially with overtime included - does that equate with a lower overall crime rate?

[Lori Allen _]

Hi Alex,

If I recall, the "Lakewood Citizen" was only a recent hire and his salary may not be on until next year.

The police do seem to make out quite well. I'm not sure that the higher salaries necessarily correlate with a lower crime rate, as certain crimes like robbery and armed robbery do seem to be on the increase over the past month or so. This is not to say our police are incompetent. Most of them do their jobs well, and law enforcement is not an easy or often thanked-job. Maybe more of them are needed, but that discussion could be left for another thread.

[Jim O'Bryan]

Hmm . . . ? I was looking for a certain "Lakewood Citizen" who works for the City of Lakewood and couldn't find his name listed? Seems like LPD makes out quite well especially with overtime included - does that equate with a lower overall crime rate?

Alex

As a part time employee, new, his figures will be very low. It is more interesting to see what he is posting at his other job while inspecting your yard on your dime.

As for the fire department, one of the first things we looked at was fire overtime 10 years ago. Actually Bill Call was threatening to sue the city on behalf of the LO to get to the bottom. We found out there are many regulations which make up for some of that overtime. Testing, when someone retires and the next recruit can take the test, sick days, etc. All figures into it. They have worked at reducing overtime as have the police.

You should do a drive along with Lakewood Police on a Friday or Saturday night, it will be an eye opener for you.

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