Mayor Jim Ferrell’s Chief of staff Brian Wilson is one of the talking points in the newspapers these days and it’s no secret that he is the city’s highest paid federal employee. He garnered some newspaper fame when he made public that he was looking to get his hands on some retirement benefits that he naturally deserves. He got hit by a barricade of criticism when it was found that he was trying to complement his 147,888 dollars salary by a figure that’s close to 80 grand of retirement salary.
This is something that could be considered surprising for the normal public or for some of the other federal officers but as critics have spoken: The city council should have been aware of this because Mr Wilson had already been receiving two handsome retirement benefits from the city; both accumulating to be around 25000 dollars in future allotment.
Wilson’s retirement benefits’ search a problem for City hall?
The problem currently faced by City Hall is of great significance. It is more political than it’s anything else and this can lead the general public to conclude that this demand by the highest paid city employee is against the norms and standards of city hall. Having said this, it becomes evident that this will cause serious problems when Mayor Jim steps up for the re-election in 2017 along with other members from the city council.
Wilson’s request was turned down and there was a mentionable reason for that. His request was made as a retiring chief of police. The state made the rejection because technically he wasn’t retiring at all. All he was doing was changing jobs to now become a chief of staff. The state’s verdict was simple: these benefits are solely meant to help the retirees and there is no reason why people that are making changes in their job description should be getting these.
