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Retired Metropolitan Water District GM has collected $3.6 million in pension pay, with more on the way
September 8th, 2009, 6:00 am · 83 Comments · posted by Teri Sforza, Register staff writer
Forty retirees from the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California earn pensions of more than $100,000 per year, according to a database provided by CalPERS, the California Public Employees Retirement System.
That number will likely go up - perhaps way up? - if Met’s board of directors approves a new union agreement on Sept. 15, which will hike retiree pension formulas by 25 percent.
The Met guy pulling down the biggest pension right now is Carl Boronkay, former general manager, whose pension is $224,813 a year.
Boronkay retired in 1993. That means that, to date, he’s collected some $3.6 million in retirement. (Golden years, indeed! Click “read more” below to see Met’s full list of 40 retirees, and their annual pension figures.)
The present retirement formula gives employees 2 percent of their salary for each year of service once they hit age 55. The new formula would give them 2.5 percent of salary for each year of service once they hit age 55.
There are 5,115 retired government workers in California who receive pensions in excess of $100,000, according to the California Foundation for Fiscal Responsibility. Here are the Met retirees who are in that club, and their annual pensions, according to CalPERS data:
| CARL BORONKAY | $224,812.80 |
| NORMAN TAYLOR | $191,512.08 |
| RODERICK WALSTON | $187,782.84 |
| DAVID PORTER | $170,075.76 |
| DOUGLAS MARSHALL | $149,733.12 |
| LAUREN BRAINARD | $148,945.68 |
| NORMAN FLETTE | $148,258.92 |
| JARLATH OLEY | $137,811.60 |
| JAMES GALLANES | $132,217.08 |
| ALBERT CHENG | $129,202.20 |
| MYRON HOLBURT | $120,516.84 |
| FREDERICK HORNE | $120,203.88 |
| GEORGE BUCHANAN | $119,561.76 |
| VICTOR GLEASON | $119,445.48 |
| MICHAEL YOUNG | $118,419.24 |
| STEPHANIE VENDIG | $118,418.76 |
| BARBARA KENNEDY | $115,249.92 |
| JAY MALINOWSKI | $114,198.00 |
| ROBERT LYONS | $114,192.36 |
| ALAN SMITH | $112,779.24 |
| GARY HAZEL | $112,212.36 |
| CAROL BALCERZAK | $111,909.60 |
| WILLIAM WATSON | $111,849.60 |
| EDWARD THORNHILL | $111,653.52 |
| $111,339.60 | |
| RONALD GASTELUM | $111,130.44 |
| JOSEPH SANTOS | $111,113.88 |
| EZELL CULVER | $109,106.04 |
| IZETTA BIRCH | $108,637.56 |
| ROBERT MOEHLE | $108,349.44 |
| TERRY HARMAN | $107,494.56 |
| LARRY DEFORGE | $107,363.88 |
| ALLIEN WHITSETT | $104,608.20 |
| JESSE CORRAL | $104,095.44 |
| MARSHALL DAVIS | $102,596.28 |
| EVAN GRIFFITH | $101,766.60 |
| NELSON LEE | $101,334.12 |
| LARRY HINES | $101,244.60 |
| PAUL SINGER | $100,597.08 |
| DAVID FURUKAWA | $100,353.48 |
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How long can this go on???????
As long as people like you continue to ask that question “How long can this go on?” without following up with action to make it stop.
…as long as weak kneed pols at the bos level want to pay lawyers on tax dollars to fight a completely worthless appeal—– it is remarkable these folks do not have the courage to not screw ther employees!
The Met guy pulling down the biggest pension right now is Carl Boronkay, former general manager, whose pension is $224,813 a year.
Boronkay retired in 1993. That means that, to date, he’s collected some $3.6 million in retirement
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I have a GRAND that says this clown has collected MORE in retriement than when he was ACTUALLY working-who wants that action???
Since his pension is likely a percentage of his salary at retirement AND this guy probably worked in high-level government positions for many years, I’ll take that bet.
45yrsinoc says:
September 9, 2009 at 10:25 amSince his pension is likely a percentage of his salary at retirement AND this guy probably worked in high-level government positions for many years, I’ll take that bet.
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It’s on then 45yrsinoc!
We need to start looking at desalinization plants. When I lived in the Caribbean, I was at a resort that had its own desalinization plant and it was some of the cleanest water ever. All costal cities should try and install these plants. Obama is giving out huge amounts of money to construction projects all over the country; some should go towards these water plants.(Note-I do not agree with all of the govt. spending but I think clean water is more important than widening the 73 toll road) How nice would it be for an entire city to tell the MET to go fly a kite, we have our own source of water and we will no longer pay your overinflated rates.
To all of the people that live in San Clemente or any other costal city, ask your elected officials to look into the possibility of getting money to build a desalinization plant.
Better yet Jake, all the people like you who BELIEVE that there is a “water shortage” can develop & use devices that recycle toilet water, then they can rest assured they are “doing their part” to save the precious water. If you run short you can tie into any non-participants toilet drain & “recycle” that.
Did I say anything about a water shortage? Do not try and put words in my mouth.
I am advocating that each city that has an alternative to the MET try and explore those alternatives. I said nothing about any water conservation measures at all but if you want to talk about them sure, I think that is a great idea. I don’t really understand why it seems that you want to try and attack my post but do me a favor and go back to your bunker.
Do you even know what a desal plant is? Seems like you are getting them confused with filter systems that take sewage water and make it ok for consumption. Make sure that you know what you are talking about before posting.
your a friggin genius!
What, are you scarred of individual cities getting smart to the bs that goes on at these huge organizations and finding solutions to the problems? Due to some of your other post, it seems that you work for a water district or like to pretend that you do. Hopefully enough people will get behind changing the rules that allow impossible pensions for people like this and in the near future we can see these types of pensions go away. Or maybe enough people will stop paying their bills and the entire system will crash.
The word is ’scared’, moron.
Everyone, please, a cookie for the spelling police. You are my hero, you spelling savant.
Deslalination plants are very expensive to make and run will the city be able to aford the electricty and maintenance after the pricy plant is built???
If water rates keep going up and alternative electricity gets cheaper, it starts to make more sense. Also, advancements in filters have made them more efficient.
I’ll think of him everytime I flush the toilet.
and I will think of your wife everytime I see a hooker on the corner.
Go ahead, think of my wife. I’m divorced idiot.
THIS IS ABSOLUTELY DISGUSTING!
Now we know the REAL reason they keep increasing the costs, and no matter how they “slick” the increases with justification, it becomes crystal clear they are padding their pay.
This is called “looting” isn’t it???
TAR AND FEATHERS,TAR AND FEATHERS!LETS HOPE THESE SCUMBAG THIEVES DIE YOUNG AND SAVE US MONEY.
After High School I should have went and landed a job at the Met.
realist says:
September 8, 2009 at 7:40 amAfter High School I should have went and landed a job at the Met.
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If you’re not connected (or you have common sense), you’re NOT going to be hired.
The only people who get hired for good paying, gov jobs are family, friends and incompetents.
I got a government job after college. I searched for posted job openings on line, requested the application packets, filled them out, mailed them in, got called in for interviews, and then was hired about 6 months after I started the process.
No connection, no family in government or politics, just an application, a resume, and a series of interviews.
I don’t understand how people think it’s so different from the private sector.
With that kind of money they probably use: “Propofol” to aid them in sleeping. Which answers the most FAQ! That question being, I wonder how these people can sleep at night? And with that mental attitude of: “Let them eat cake!
I don’t have any trouble sleeping at all, and plan to live a long time collecting the pension benefits I earned thorough 32 years of law enforcement service to people like you.
only $3.6 Mill ? is he going to need donnations to get by? -Fund Raiser for the old fart’s Golf fee’s?
What’s a donnation? And $3.60 is a cheap mill. Most mills I’ve seen cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, if not more.
That’s our Government. Shoving it right up our $ss
how can I join the board?
These pensions have to stop. Just like everyone else that lost their pensions from other companies. Six figure pensions is excessive. I don’t care what they did for a living. I don’t want to pay it.
butter says:
September 8, 2009 at 7:59 amThese pensions have to stop. Just like everyone else that lost their pensions from other companies. Six figure pensions is excessive. I don’t care what they did for a living. I don’t want to pay it.
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#1-it is NOT a “6 firgure pension”, the top clown has already collected $3.6 million-that is a 7 FIGURE pension, and it could top 8 FIGURES before he dies.
#2- They/this clown did not earn these pensions, they were gifted-retroactively.
Do you know how much it would take for a 401K to fund a $5-10 million dollar pension?? More than what this clown made in his ENTIRE “career” at MET.
Now instead of parents urging their sons and daughters to become doctors, lawyers, engineers, scientists, etc…. we will see a new trend. With this new trend of civil masters and not civii servants the parents will push their children to work for the water district, fire department, police department, CalTrans, the school district, the UC system, the post office, etc…. And why not? Why spend all that money on higher education and go into debt with tens of thousands of dollars in student loans when our civil masters are getting bigger compensation packages than all the professions with guaranteed retirement at 50 or 55 with $100,000 pension payouts? It’s a no-brainer. Plan for the future, parents. Network inside these agencies and find a friend or relative to hire your son or daughter so he or she can be a civil master too!
Well, this is one comment I can say is right on.
I grew up in a family that worked for the Met Water District.
EVERY Male in my family, Grandfather, Uncles, Brother-in-laws, his father, etc all got jobs at the MWD. Everyone, except for brother-in-law and 1 Uncle has retired and are now making over 100K a year. Back in the late 30’s this is where it all started. No one could afford a College Education, being during the depression and all, so these men folk of mine all come out here from Arkansas and literally sat on the steps at the MWD until they all received jobs. Many of them had a 3rd Grade Education, but secured a great position. That job housed, fed and clothed us, but I do remember hearing how times are bad and how poor we were. Today, only my Uncle and Brother-in-Law works for the MWD and they had a College Education and it is mandatory that they study and continue to take “tests” throughout their employment. They worked hard, very hard, but so do a lot of other non-government employeed people, like me and my husband, and we will never see reitrement. So, I sure wish I would have taken that MWD job back in the early 80’s when it was offered to me, because today I would be sitting pretty. Yes, maybe in today’s world it would be best to do that, instead of wasting money at Harvard and getting a Business Degree.
lol– what a nut oc obs is… i love it…
rex says:
lol– what a nut oc obs is… i love it…
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lol– what a welfare queen rex is… i love it…
I’m disgusted…no wonder the state is broker. Do you think these people are losing their homes like other taxpayers?
There is no way that whatever services these peoples provided anyone can justify the amount. Curious that the OCR was actually able to publish their names. Thank you, now “THE PEOPLE” know who to target in a lawsuit.
Speaking of worthless people, what are they pulling down over at OCTA?
i love the octa and the busses…use em everyday…
Times are tough all over. Almost impossible to get by on a six-figure retirement pension. Just ask these “lucky” people.
These “best and brightest” weren’t worth the big bucks they earned so they could retire on these six-figure pensions. Wait a minute. Maybe they were onto something after all.
Not everyone has the keeness of insight to figure out, in one swell foop (or is it one fell swoop) how to screw the taxpayer, live the life of Riley, and retire to a life of luxury .
Dont be such a bad sport OCOBSERVER! You must have chosen the wrong profession, huh? The pension fund stays afloat by investing in the market. There is no cost to the taxpayer other than the 9% contribution the employer pays to match the employee contribution. The retirement system is fair. Now, why they are making so much in the first place is something we should be looking at. The retirement is based on what they make and they are making too much.
By the way - take away the retirement and they will “retire on duty” doing nothing while collecting 100% plus raises.
You almost had it Rico.
The fact: The comperable private sector jobs for these manager types are paid way more. Try being a City manager or in charge of getting water to a populus who is wateful and lives in a desert. Not an easy job. Trust the free market.
Rico
It’s obvious that you are not aware that there has been a “slight” decrease in the value of the pension funds. And any underfunded liability must be funded. But by whom? does the employee contribute the underfunded amount? If not them, then whom? The employerr? Well if the employer must ante up the difference where are they going to get the additional funds?
A suggestion would be for the government to terminate the current pension plans and implement one similiar to the private sector, that is the 401k plan.
If the employees don’t like it then, they can quit and look elsewhere for a job, because last I heard there was double digit unemployment in CA.
well said Rico— poor oc observer– sad
Rico says:
Dont be such a bad sport OCOBSERVER! You must have chosen the wrong profession, huh? The pension fund stays afloat by investing in the market. There is no cost to the taxpayer other than the 9% contribution the employer pays to match the employee contribution.
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Rico-put the crack pipe down buddy.
The Calpers pension system is on life support (it is “critical” under gov guidelines because it is less than 80% funded), it has NOT returned anywhere near the 7.75% ROI it needs to pay out it’s obligations, and the 9% employee and employer contribution does not even fund HALF of these pensions (see what Calpers head actuary stated last week-it takes over 25% of pay to fund a general employee and 50% of pay to fund a “safety” employee”).
Your just stating the same old gov welfare queen lies to try to scam people.
And people complain about police, fire, and teachers pensions! At least those people serve the people. Sitting on a waterboard is hardly work. It’s politics! These pensions should tell you why you must use less water but pay more for it!
Debbie…. The GM stands for General Manager, it’s like being the CEO of a company or the CO of a ship. They’re responsible for all the operations of the water district. The GM does not sit on the water board.
Yet another “hit-piece” article written by the OC Register designed to Gin-up anger and hatred against the government workers. Worked as designed. The reader posts are threatening. One by one, the OC Register seems to hit large, soft targets in the county, slowly killing it off and killing themselves off in the process. The flea can’t survive if the dog dies.
Apparently we’re not all suffering in this resession.
I do not condemn the process, but just observe it. Lesson #1 - If they are part of CALPIRS that is not necessarily true. These people are part of a defined benefit program, but defined contribution. Thus it doesn’t matter how much you put in, its how much you get back. If it was matter of the employee putting in 9% and the agency putting in the same, I would agree with you. But the public agency is billed for any shortage required to meet the defined retirement benefits as they are paid out. CALPIRS invests the combined 18% and hopes to get a return that covers it all. When the stock market was having 20% or more returns, they told agencies that they did not need to add anything. Police and fire unions pressured their agencies for the major increases they got based upon the argument that the market investments would pay it all (”it won’t cost you a thing!”), and the agencies would not have to add anything (overage). SURPRISE! The market investments have tanked and the various public agencies are now (anfd will be for a long time) being assessed the difference between the 18% forwarded and the amount being paid out and the actuaries estimates of what will need to be paid in the future. This is going to be a problem for a long, long time, as long as it takes for any current fire-fighter or police officer currently working (or alive and retired), passes on, say fifty year or more (assuming its changed right now for new hires). They are contracts signed by elected public official wanting to curry favor from the public safety employees of their agency who have great sway with the local citizens who buy the argument that we “hire only the best”. Also, the administrative head of any agency? He or she has every reason, in negotiations, to see that the agencies rank & file employees get high retire (and salary) benefits as they will travel upwards also. Now, these are the contracts that have been signed with the various employee organization, they must be met. Public safety employees and strong argument can be made that they deserve it and actually decrease their lifetimes because of their careers. Can the same be said of water district employees? Danger? shorter lives?
Tomorrow, Lesson #2, the truth about the “argument of compaction”.
For example: In November 2008 the Irvine Ranch Water District ‘voted themselves’ … 9% salary increases for 2009 and 2010, ‘3% performance’ bonuses, ‘2%-5% special bonuses, 5% cost of living increases, 3% across-the-board retirement pension increases, plus increases in ‘golden’ health benefit increases, they also plus they voted themselves new leased vehicles for 2009/2010. They did this without public notice.[The public could not access the November 2008 Meeting Agenda in advance as a ‘dead-web site link, nor was a printed copy available for pick-up at their Irvine offices.] In a corrupt, under-handed manner, the Irvine Ranch Water District Board and employees voted themselves salary increases, special bonuses, retirement pension increases, etc., etc. etc.
Water District management throughout California are out-of-control and completely disregard the national economic devastation through California. Since they are accountable to no governing or public interest over-sight body except themselves, they are free to be their own “Czars,” doing whatebver they decide to do in their best interest!
all i know is im glad i work here and i cant wait another 15 years and im on easy street baby yahoo! wee! yippeeeee! hahahahaha!
So Kevin, what do you think about desalination plants to help our water shortage?
I think we’ll get that last laugh on that one, kevinshut. If you have another 15 years to go you will be lucky to see a thin dime. By that time your pension system will be bankrupted along with the rest of the country. You will be protesting in the streets and no one will pay any attention. You hired on at the wrong time, friend. You are on the bottom rung of ponzi ladder. You just don’t have the brains to figure it out. Good luck with easy street. hah.
You know!! what I really like about this recession , it’s the fact, that we are starting to pay attention ,on spending. we can see the excess, that WE CREATED by not paying attention.
If they get the pension hike, how many of them will retire early? Remember what happened to the sheriffs dept when their pension rules changed. Many of them took early retirement, I can see that happening here.
What were there original salaries before they retired. They are paid a percentage of their salary, not 100%. Get a grip ocwatchdog. Soon you will be complaining about the pension plans of the local utilitiy companies such as SCE, Gas Company, Verizon, ATT, Cable companies.
and these are the guys flying around in private planes paid for at taxpayers expense…these are the fools who bankrupt the system…and you are the fools who keep tolerating this nonsense. they want pension raises of 25% when private industry is eliminating all pensions for workers…what a stinking joke. all government pensions should be put to rest or cut by 50%. if they don’t like it…let them go get a real job!!!
Are you confusing government pensioners with the CEOs of car companies?
http://taxdollars.freedomblogging.com/2009/07/21/metropolitan-water-districts-airplanes-ferry-nearly-1000-passengers-over-three-years/27411/
this is what he is talking about.
God this is a boring and dim witted mantra– get over it folks– these people were promised by YOU these retirements—- they fulfilled their end by doing the work– now you pay. It is our constituition— right to contract— if you want to change the system for future employees of the gov.— negotiate a new retirement tier—– end of story—zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
You seem to think that these pensions are voted on by the public. That is not the case. These pensions were given by weak officials that wanted to make the unions and workers happy.
are u nuts????
Nope. Why would you think that?
Einstein rex-the pensions were NOT voted on and they are NOT obligated, you idiot moron (I now know how you were hired for gov employment!).
Sorry JVB. While the pensions may not have been the subject of a referendum vote, they most surely were voted on by the Board of Supervisors, City Council, or other governing body of the systems where they are in effect. If you’ll check the case by City Attorney Michael Aguirre against the San Diego City Pension system, you’ll find that the benefits are indeed legally obligated. And yes, that means if there’s a pension shortfall, taxes or fees will have to be increased to meet the obligation. Even the Vallejo case is not having an impact on vested pension benefits, although it may result in a change of pension benefits for future work years and future employees. Sorry to disappoint you.
SkippingDog says:
Sorry JVB. While the pensions may not have been the subject of a referendum vote, they most surely were voted on by the Board of Supervisors, City Council, or other governing body of the systems where they are in effect.
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Skippy, my comment was to rex’s post that these benefits were voted on and approved by the PUBLIC-which is what rex was inferring.
Metro Water District: STOP raising our rates to fill the bellies of fat cats who draw obscene pensions and salaries. I no longer want to hear about the rising cost of water, yet these bozos keep stuffing themselves at the trough. Greed, greed, greed. Say NO to the ridiculous pension hikes.
Never ceases to amaze me how many sour grapers there are here. Spend less time WHINING and more time finding a job with a decent pension.
Don’t whine just because you made a bad career choice.
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This is for Rex , who is obviously benefitting from the corruption and ineptitude of some servants that allowed contracts to be written and signed without true oversight. These contracts could be nullified when the people are informed how the contracts were created and prove that the contracts were not valid. Let’s look at this expample, my brother hires me at the city, gives me a saweeeet contract, but as part of my position, I need to do the same for his friend and so on….eventually insider favors will come to light and everyone that benfitted must have their contracts recinded and anyone who knowingly committed fraud should be liable for fraudulent income and jailtime.
Wow. Another person that actually has a brain. Not to many of us left.
wrong— there was no fraud in these bargained for benefits— get a clue sad sack.
Just a note. These water board members are voted on. They are on your ballot, but you just keep checking “incumbent”. You get what you pay for.
California Water Districts are an unregulated segment of the public utility industry. They are not accountable to any public over-sight boards nor any duly elected government board. In most cases Water Districts “elect themselves” through limited public notice elections which the Water District Board and their friends and lobbyist control.
Since Water Districts are completely unregulated they are able to arbitrarily increase water rates as well as the salaries and benefits they pay themselves. For example, in November 2008 the Irvine Ranch Water District ‘voted themselves’ a ‘9% salary and cost of living increase’ for 2009 and 2010, ‘3% performance bonuses,’ ‘2%-5% special bonuses,’ a ‘3% across-the-board retirement pension plan increase,’ plus coverage increases in their gold-plated health benefit packages. They also voted themselves a new fleet of leased vehicles for 2009/2010. IRWD then increased water rates and services fees by an average of 50% to 100% … all this without any over-sight or approval by their water-users, homeowners, business owners, taxpayers, etc. and without any prior public notification of the Meeting Agenda nor any approval by the water users!?
In a corrupt, under-handed manner, the Irvine Ranch Water District Board, their rank-in-file management, and the employees voted themselves these salary increases, special bonuses, retirement pension increases, health plan increases, etc. by failing to provide any advance release of their November 2008 Meeting Agenda. The IRWD web site link to the November Meeting Agenda was “Unavailable” prior to the meeting. If you requested to pick-up a printed copy of the November 2008 Meeting Agenda at their Irvine offices … you were told that “they were all out of Meeting Agenda copies at this time!”
California Water Districts are free to be their own “Czars,” doing whatever they decide is in their own self-serving best interest.
Are we on the same planet Tom?
Show some actual facts to for all those percentages you posted. LOL
“IRWD then increased water rates and services fees by an average of 50% to 100%”
PROVE THAT…….. You are ABSOLUTELY high.
And no, info from Ms. Sforza doesn’t count (and you know why).
Answer us this Tom:
Where does IRWD stand as far as water rates in OC?
Uhhmmm Tom…… any word about backing up your ‘facts’?
We’re still waiting.
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With reference to Mr. Boronkay’s pension of 224,000 per year, I have
this question. Could we have gotten his services without the pen-
sion, or with a lesser, more reasonable pension, or could we have
gotten the services of someone else, equally qualified, with a
reasonable pension? If the answer is no, we should get off his
back. If the answer is yes, something must be done about it, but
what, and by whom?
If the board could have gotten someone cheaper they would have. The same thing goes for any skilled professional with niche specialties. Free market, man, free market.
What about the cops eating donuts, get paid for putting on their uniforms while feasting on OT and getting 3% at 50. These cops would be working as gym teachers(or maybe the military)–the folks you are trashing her are getting a fraction of retirement while most are highly educated professionals who have the skills and education to get top-notch private sector jobs. Wake up and smell the coffee and re-focus your attentions on the real scam of cops and firefighters raping the system.
I’ve seen so many of these lists.
But they would be so much more meaningful if AGES were given. I don’t have nearly as much problem with an 80 year old as I do with someone pulling down $100k+ at age 55.
But they would be so much more meaningful if AGES were given. I don’t have nearly as much problem with an 80 year old as I do with someone pulling down $100k+ at age 55.
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NO ONE in gov works pasty age 55, much less SS’s retirement age of 67, so I have no idea why you would think ANY of these people retried at even age 80, or even 60 (none work past 55).
So you can be assured they are all getting their pensions for at least 25 years.