State Agency Is Ignoring Salary Database Law
From the Chicago Daily Herald
An Illinois law requiring the state to keep a salary database of most local government employees is being disregarded because no money was ever appropriated to pay for it.
Department officials claim they didn't have to create the database because they were not given funding.
Some lawmakers say they were never told it would cost anything, maintain there is no additional cost and are upset they were never notified the law was being ignored.
"The statute indicates it was 'subject to appropriation,'" said Alka Nayyar, spokeswoman for the Illinois Department of Central Management Services, which was charged with creating the database. "I don't believe the General Assembly appropriated the funds required to implement the additions" to the Illinois Transparency and Accountability Portal.
The portal was created in 2010 as an employment database of state workers that lists their names, job titles, current pay rates and year-to-date salary totals.
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From the Chicago Daily Herald
An Illinois law requiring the state to keep a salary database of most local government employees is being disregarded because no money was ever appropriated to pay for it.
Department officials claim they didn't have to create the database because they were not given funding.
Some lawmakers say they were never told it would cost anything, maintain there is no additional cost and are upset they were never notified the law was being ignored.
"The statute indicates it was 'subject to appropriation,'" said Alka Nayyar, spokeswoman for the Illinois Department of Central Management Services, which was charged with creating the database. "I don't believe the General Assembly appropriated the funds required to implement the additions" to the Illinois Transparency and Accountability Portal.
The portal was created in 2010 as an employment database of state workers that lists their names, job titles, current pay rates and year-to-date salary totals.
Read more in our daily News Update...