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That doesn't include the time of Deputy Commissioner Sharon Kellner-Chille, Director of Risk and Safety Marilyn Rivers or Accounts Commissioner John Franck, all of whom had significant time wrapped up in the roughly 57 hours of hearings in City Hall.
It also doesn't include the $7,500 they allocated to defend themselves in a lawsuit she filed at the May 7 City Council meeting.
It does include:
-$35,340 for 169.7 hours of Harris Beach Attorney Mark McCarthy's time and seven hours of other Harris Beach attorney's time (It's $200 an hour, if you were wondering).
-$21,235.04 in Hearing Officer Christopher Nicolino's time and hotel expenses (he made $1,600 per diem or $175 an hour).
-And $4,765.75 in court reporter costs.
It also doesn't include the $37.50 or whatever my time cost altogether.
I may do more with this (I'll at least post the invoices), but I am too dejected at my own rate of pay to go on now.
*Update*
As it turns out, I'm not the only one with this FOIL.
In fact, I know of one other blogger who wrote about it (warning, as always, there
My FOIL for the information is at the bottom of the page, but here is the FOIL from
Ivins circulated the FOIL to the Republican Committee in the city.
Franck, of course, called it "bullsh*t politics" (speaking of coarse language). He thought I got the FOIL from Ivins. I didn't.
I have heard word for months (from a very reliable source) that the AG's office hadn't found any evidence that the Accounts Department did anything wrong and would likely be issuing a statement to that effect, but I'm still waiting.
Ivins said it was information that people have a right to know. As for whether it was politics, "Obviously I circulated to the Republican Committee, I have the e-mail list. I don't have the Democratic Committee list." He said he sent it to the GOP "to get people educated" about where tax dollars go.
Anyway, this is probably superfluous, but here is MY FOIL request (same as his, without the redaction or the cover letter).
*Another update in response to comments* I just figured I would add something in here to mention that Franck was also wondering about Zlotnick's funding. "I don't know who is paying for it," he said. I'm putting something together for the newspaper tomorrow, which I will post a link to here. Hopefully I can get some questions answered.
**Update, I couldn't get a hold of anyone to tell me who was paying Zlotnick's bills.
Labels: Accounts Commissioner John Franck, Harris Beach, Mary Zlotnick, Sharon Kellner-Chille