Fire District Payday Postponed
Salary not delivered on time to the six full-time employees at the Oakbrook Terrace Fire Protection District a payday earlier this month. And for two consecutive pay periods, the small fire district was unable to 18 part-time employees pay on time. The snafu was due to the inability of the fire district to receive a loan default is a local bank in a timely manner, officials asked for a similar loan from another bank. (District officials) has contacted us, and the communication was pretty clear. They were good at what they said, we got paid and we are on. We also try to watch and make sure we’re not back in this situation in motion.
All part-time workers and five of the six full-timers are firefighters. The other full-time employee is an administrative assistant. Problems began in December for the district, which includes parts of Oakbrook Terrace, together with the mostly unincorporated Westlands, Brandywine and Riordan subdivisions between Oakbrook Terrace and Villa Park. The district, which has no financial reserves, sought a $ 425,000 tax anticipation warrant, which is a loan against the expected future tax revenues from Harris Bank. Fire officials, who have an annual budget of approximately $ 1.4 million, previously had no trouble securing and paying back on time in a similar authorization Harris earlier in 2010.