Blake
05-08-2020, 02:44 PM
"SAN ANTONIO – Bexar County budget employees who last year questioned why a justice of the peace continued to collect full-time pay were instructed to leave the increase in place, emails obtained by the KSAT 12 Defenders show.
The March 2019 email chain included members of the county’s budget and human resources department and focused on the annual compensation of Precinct 1, Place 2 Justice of the Peace Ciro Rodriguez, who nine months earlier had been given a “short-term salary adjustment” by county commissioners after the precinct’s primary judge recovered from a life-threatening bacterial infection.
Records, however, show Rodriguez’s nearly $30,000 pay increase, from $88,040 to more than $117,000, remained in place long after the other judge, Robert Tejeda, returned to work.
Rodriguez’s annual salary has now increased to $125,792 a year, records show, even though the judge hears less than a quarter of cases in his precinct."
https://www.ksat.com/news/defenders/2020/05/08/bexar-county-budget-staff-questioned-judges-full-time-pay-in-2019-were-instructed-to-stand-down/
The March 2019 email chain included members of the county’s budget and human resources department and focused on the annual compensation of Precinct 1, Place 2 Justice of the Peace Ciro Rodriguez, who nine months earlier had been given a “short-term salary adjustment” by county commissioners after the precinct’s primary judge recovered from a life-threatening bacterial infection.
Records, however, show Rodriguez’s nearly $30,000 pay increase, from $88,040 to more than $117,000, remained in place long after the other judge, Robert Tejeda, returned to work.
Rodriguez’s annual salary has now increased to $125,792 a year, records show, even though the judge hears less than a quarter of cases in his precinct."
https://www.ksat.com/news/defenders/2020/05/08/bexar-county-budget-staff-questioned-judges-full-time-pay-in-2019-were-instructed-to-stand-down/