CITY HALL — A double-dipping Water Management employee got a two-week suspension for claiming repeatedly to have no other job, even while taking in $500,000 in repair work over several years, according to the city watchdog.
Inspector Joe Ferguson stated in his quarterly report issued Monday that an unnamed Department of Water Management employee submitted five falsified dual-employment forms between 2005 and 2014 claiming to have no outside employment.
According to the report, the employee had owned a repair company since 1997 and did an estimated $500,000 in repair work over the last several years.
Reporter Ted Cox found lots of interesting information in the latest IG report.
The report states that the employee "admitted intentionally providing false information to the city," and faced possible firing. Yet the employee was given a 14-day suspension, while admitting to having an outside job maintaining and repairing equipment.
City employees are allowed to have outside employment, but they must tell the city about it.
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