With the Clark County School District facing a serious budget shortfall, Eyewitness News is asking questions about why one employee is making six figures for work the district can't or won't define?
The I-Team first exposed Bill Wiseman for his personal use of district property and now the I-Team looks at his overtime and call out pay which totals nearly $60,000. Bill Wiseman is an intrusion alarm supervisor for the Clark County School District.
Reporter Colleen McCarty is showing Wiseman surveillance video.
See a graphic of Wiseman's overtime and call outs
McCarty: "So there's another box you're putting into your truck?"
Wiseman: "Yeah, yeah"
Wiseman is explaining why school district surveillance cameras captured him loading school district surveillance cameras into his personal truck.
Wiseman: "When they become obsolete, we either throw them in the dumpster, or we bring them home and repair them and take them and use them again."
McCarty: "So those cameras on the outside of the house, those are old cameras? (McCarty is referring to cameras on the outside of Wiseman's home)
Wiseman: "You won't find those in the district anywhere.
McCarty: "But those came from work?
Wiseman: "yeah."
It's a tax-payer funded home security system for the supervisor of the department charged with preventing theft. An employee, who according to records obtained by the I-Team, earned more than $149,000 last year and only half of it is his salary.
"I can tell you that another investigation has been opened," said Dr. Craig Kadlub who is the Chief of Staff for district Superintendent Walt Ruffles.
McCarty: "At a time when we're talking about possibly taking teachers out of the classroom, that seems like an exorbitant amount?
Kadlub: "It does, but I can only say that's part of the investigation as well."
An I-Team analysis of Wiseman's earnings in 2007 found he reported call-out pay, overtime pay or both nearly every single day, including weekends and holidays.
Take February of last year, according to school district records, Wiseman received overtime or call-out pay every day of the month except for two. It's the same for August. April had just four exceptions and September had five.
McCarty: "Is there any position, whether it be his or anyone else's that would warrant that much call out and overtime?"
"I really couldn't address that, I don't know his level of expertise and I don't know what call out consists of," said Kadlub.
Neither does Eyewitness News, despite our requests for specific information. Work orders available for some of the call-outs note "arming or disarming the security system." And overtime records list "CCTV2" as the justification which is defined by the district as "shop time."
"95-percent of our work is cameras," said Wiseman.
Surveillance cameras that record images of Wiseman removing cameras from CCSD during his overtime in the shop.
McCarty: "Is that okay with the district?"
Wiseman: "Yeah, yeah. You either throw it in the dumpster or you bring it home. It's no big deal."
Eyewitness News doesn't know whether this is an isolated incident or if excessive overtime and call-out pay is a district-wide problem. So we're asking for your help. If you know of waste, the I-Team would like to hear about it.
Click here to email reporter Colleen McCarty.
Bill Wiseman is an intrusion alarm supervisor for the Clark County School District.
The I-Team first exposed Bill Wiseman for his personal use of district property and now the I-Team looks at his overtime and call out pay which totals nearly $60,000.
