San Bernardino County Sheriff John McMahon speaks during a sit-down interview at the San Bernardino Sheriff’s Department Headquarters in San Bernardino on Tuesday, March 19, 2013. According to recently released data, McMahon was the highest paid elected official in California during 2013. File Photo
By Joe Nelson, The Sun
Posted: 01/03/15, 5:27 PM PST |
San Bernardino County Sheriff John McMahon topped the list of highest paid elected officials in California in 2013, according to recently released data by the state Controller’s Office,
A onetime payment of $121,579 for accrued vacation and sick time that McMahon cashed out after being appointed sheriff by the Board of Supervisors in December 2012 catapulted him to the top of state Controller John Chiang’s list.
Coupled with his base salary of $225,499, McMahon’s total income for 2013 was $363,986, according to the Controller’s Office.
McMahon took office as San Bernardino County sheriff in January 2013, and he was subsequently elected sheriff for four more years in the June primary.
The Board of Supervisors appointed McMahon sheriff following the abrupt departure of Sheriff Rod Hoops, who announced he was retiring in November 2012 to take another job with the Washington, D.C., law-enforcement think tank Police Foundation, headed by retired Redlands Police Chief Jim Bueermann.
Prior to becoming sheriff, McMahon was an assistant sheriff with nearly 30 years of accrued vacation and sick time he never used while ascending the ranks from patrol deputy to the sheriff’s executive staff.
“That’s 28 years of leave banks, and I was not a big user of sick leave or vacation time in my career,” McMahon said. “I think I used 2 hours of sick leave in my career.”
McMahon attributes his lack of sick time to being in the gym five days a week and “being blessed with good genes.”
“I have a pretty good track record of being healthy,” said McMahon, 51.
In a news release last month, Chiang, in an effort to make public finance information more readily available to taxpayers, announced two new websites: PublicPay.ca.gov, which provides information on public employee pay and benefits, and Trackprop30.ca.gov, which assists taxpayers in tracking every dollar raised under Proposition 30, a sales and income tax increase initiative approved by voters in 2012 that is supposed to benefit public schools.
On the list of top-earning public officials, former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca came in at number two with $347,786 in total wages in 2013, followed by San Bernardino County Auditor-Controller/Treasurer-Tax Collector Larry Walker with $325,245.
The Board of Supervisors in 2010 approved a merger of the Treasurer/Tax Collector and Auditor-Controller offices in an effort to save the county between $500,000 and $1 million a year.
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If this doesn’t sum up McMahon and the brass at SBSD then I don’t know what does. Mills, pay close attention, this includes you too!!!
At that point, law enforcements leaders distance themselves from the culture they once supported. The resulting conclusion was that “the only way that individual cops will change is if the organizational culture changes, and the only way the organization will change is if high-level officials are held accountable for the actions of their subordinates. As long as police administrators can chalk up misconduct to a few ‘rotten apples’ and absolve themselves for any responsibility for the barrel out of which the rotten apples came, there will be no lasting reform.”7
Mills is a perfect example of a rotten apple. You should be able to see that by his comments over the last couple years. When the facts are posted he goes silent. He comments on the little issues. The big ones are way to complex for his past. He is use to covering stuff up.
#1 Amen
I wonder if the Peace Officer Bill of Rights protects McMahon’s accrued vacation and sick time statements for the past 29 years. Maybe a public information request would prove this to be another line of BS. I bet just like all the mistruths found during his election, the same would be revealed in his time off statement. This guy was caught so much during the election with mistruths, his wife would just come out and say she made the mistake or the computer did it or the devil made me do it. Maybe he can also tell us why he was using out of state plates if he is making so much green. Mills chew on that you drunk little fat bald queen.
So McMahon was never sick in 30 years? I didn’t know you could build up that much sick time and not lose it. Never injured on the job? Lucky man. The smell of bs is just a little overwhelming. I hope when he retires he doesn’t seek a medical retirement like so many of his peers do.
#4 who can forget the McMahon sisters defending John on Facebook during the election? Enough butt among them to fill Jerry Browns bullet train.
McMahons comments are BS on sick. Everyone I knew who worked the jails especially Central Jail was sick more than once, adapting to that screwed up central air system that circulated the germs like no body’s business.
But maybe McMahon was lucky and never did any real jail time. I guess the question is what plush assignments did he have early on? When your getting groomed you generally aren’t put in the jobs that create any potential problems.
Wasn’t McMahon the playground monitor at CDC?
Oh wait, he was the lunch room monitor and counted the plastic forks, knives and spoons at CDC.
Did Mills see this post. Be careful. He is drunk.