Sheriff Rochelle Bilal sought to distance herself Wednesday from a simmering budget controversy, claiming that her finance staff tried to double her salary without her knowledge.
She also contended that Mayor Jim Kenney’s administration had advised her team that it could redirect money allocated for new hires to give raises to top staffers and others., citing an internal Sheriff’s Office memo and city finance records, that hundreds of thousands of dollars earmarked for new hires — including deputies — had instead been used to cover $500,000 in raises for “exempt” workers, those not hired through the civil-service system.
Bilal asked for the public’s patience as she seeks to modernize an office that has been dogged by scandals under her predecessors. Last spring, Bilal’s office requested $25 million in new funding, which would have nearly doubled the office’s budget and workforce, according to Peterson. The city approved a $1.9 million increase, $1.5 million of it for new hires.
By that point, Bilal said, “Everybody was thinking they were going to get a raise,” which left her in a bind.
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