Former Salt Lake County chief financial officer Randy Allen is getting insult added to injury.
A day after being charged with misdemeanor communications fraud for discrepancies in his county gas card purchase records, Allen had his pay docked by acting Mayor Alan Dayton.
Chief administrative officer David Marshall sent Allen a letter Wednesday informing him that his annual salary is being reduced from $92,512 to $72,816.
"The mayor has, as a result of this charge, and your previous statements concerning unauthorized use of county assets, determined to discontinue your red-line status and put you within the range of your current allocation," Marshall wrote.
Allen was fired from his chief financial officer position last May after admitting he had used his county-owned vehicle for personal trips. He earned $103,776 in that position. He subsequently landed in the planning and development services division as a fiscal analyst, which carries a maximum salary of $72,816.
County Mayor Nancy Workman, who has since been placed on administrative leave because she was charged with felony misuse of public money, "red-lined" Allen's salary — making him an exception to the salary ceiling and giving him a 27 percent pay bump.
At the time, Marshall defended the red-lined salary, saying Allen's experience and education merited the higher pay. Dayton spokesman Rob Jeppsen, however, said Wednesday that Dayton — Workman's deputy mayor — wasn't keen on the red-line in the first place.
"It's restoring it to where it should have been, in Alan's mind," Jeppsen said.
The letter terms the wage docking as "discipline" arising from the district attorney's charges, which Jeppsen said might actually benefit Allen.
"If he goes through the trial portion of this, he can argue that he has already been disciplined," he said.
Allen could not be reached for comment.
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