Former mayoral appointees getting $400,000 plus for unused leave

The 31 mayoral appointees let go by Mayor Alvin Brown will be getting one last check.  The former city workers will be getting in all more than $400,000.

The appointees who were let go had saved a good amount of unused leave time.  The Times-Union reporting the city of Jacksonville will be writing checks to buy the unused leave time and it'll average out to $13,976.  Some city workers will be getting checks for more than $50,000.

Some employers have a policy in place that sick time, vacation days and personal days either get used up by the end of the year or you lose them.  The city doesn't have that policy, but they do cap the amount of leave time you can save, it's around 12 weeks.  That maximum is usually only obtained by workers who have a long tenure with the city. 

It's a different policy all together for police officers and fire fighters.

In this case you have city workers who have been let go, and are getting back almost a third of what they made yearly.

There hasn't been much change to the policy; Mayor John Peyton was the last to tweak it.  Peyton told appointees he would not let them stay on the city books and run off their unused leave time.  The former city workers running off their time now were there prior to that change.

Despite the hundreds of thousands of dollars that will have to be paid off some city lawmakers are not all that interested in changing the way the current rules are written.