cover 1999-2002 - SCI

In addition, this case illustrated that the current method used to account for the
time worked by painters and other hourly employees needed to be reevaluated.
Consequently, we recommended that current time clock usage and procedures be
reviewed and revised, as necessary. We offered the following suggestions to aid in
efforts to deter this and other types of time abuse:
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• All schools should have working clocks on a dedicated circuit.
• At schools where clocks are in disrepair, a supervisor should be present on site
at the beginning and end of each workday.
• Painters and similarly situated employees should be required to sign in and
sign out at an official log maintained by the school safety agent at their
assigned work site.
• Time clocks should be coded to be school specific.
• The time stamp should be redesigned to prevent use of the “double card
method.”
• The condition of the site time clocks should be noted by the custodian at the
school in the custodian’s daily logbook.
Julian Gonzalez was suspended for 30 days without pay and faced charges
seeking to terminate his employment. While awaiting a hearing, Gonzalez resigned and
was placed on the ineligible list. Domenick Pace also resigned from his employment
with the BOE and is not eligible to be rehired.
For the most part, the suggestions to deter time abuse have not been implemented.
Scheme to Defraud: Judy Kennedy and Robin Hughes
Payroll Secretary Judy Kennedy and Teacher Robin Hughes, assigned to PS 181
in Community School District 17 in Brooklyn, engaged in a scheme to defraud the BOE
during the 1999-2000 school year. Kennedy intentionally failed to enter Hughes’s unpaid
maternity leave into the payroll system which allowed Hughes to receive her regular
salary during her leave of nearly six months. That same year, Kennedy also entered two
separate unauthorized grace periods into the payroll computer on Hughes’s behalf,
resulting in additional undeserved salary payments to Hughes. In total, Hughes received
$29,015.54 in unearned compensation.
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