ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. --
Eyewitness News found out Orange County's sheriff may be offering valuable severance packages to some of his top brass, again. And once again the move is coming under fire.
The severance packages include six months full pay and benefits and were intended to reduce the number of managers in the department. Monday night, Sheriff Beary was not denying the offer, while others were coming forward to say the move is unfair and unnecessary.
The sheriff would not talk about the issue at all. When Channel 9 was told his schedule for Monday was jam-packed, we received a copy of it because it's public record. It was blank.
Allegedly, Beary offered up to eight of his people the sweet separation packages and everyone said no.
The sheriff is under the gun to put more deputies on the street and one way or the other streamline his management team. He's already come under fire earlier this year for one of his solutions, offering more than $200,000 in bonus packages to encourage some of the top brass into early retirement.
Monday, the word that he was making more 'platinum parachute' offers was, again, irking his rank and file officers and has others asking whether he's shirking his responsibilities to county taxpayers in the name of re-structuring.
"I just don't think it's the best use of the money," said Martha Haynie, the Orange County comptroller.
Haynie said longtime employees are often sent off with sizable checks for unused sick and vacation leave time and she's hearing that the sheriff has been sending off retirees with an extra one-month's pay for quite some time which she said is already generous when it comes to tax money.
"He certainly has the constitutional authority to terminate employees when he wants to. Certainly, those high-level deputies serve at his pleasure. I sometimes joke with my staff about that, but it is not a laughing matter. He does have the authority to do it," Haynie added.
Channel 9 was told the sheriff is making verbal offers, leaving no public records until the offers are accepted. Monday the sheriff's staff wouldn't give yes or no answers to our questions about whether he's made another round of severance offers that were turned down.
Sheriff's captain Mark Strobridge said in an e mail that there were no planned or current retirement offers and that the sheriff will always continue to review personnel issues and do what is best for the efficient operations of the sheriff's office.
The sheriff's department also said the sheriff took the lead from the city of Orlando's severance policy for appointed employees and said Haynie signed off on similar agreements for the Orange County attorney and Orange County administrator.
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