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The Jacobsen Money Pit
Fresh from the uptown paper of record’s Department of Laughable Headlines: “Results unclear for Jacobsen’s UNCC work.”
The results are positively clear and thoroughly damning: former Department of Social Services Director Jake Jacobsen lingered on the county’s payroll for three years, pocketing upwards of $168,000 annually, coasting until retirement while creating nothing of substantive value as a figurehead for a UNCC think tank. As a nice perk, when other county employees were being pink-slipped by the hundreds, Jacobsen continued to receive a county car, computer and cell phone as part of his cushy deal.
Amazingly, nobody seems to have a clue about what Jacobsen produced, other than a “positive impact,” during his stint with UNCC’s Institute of Social Capital. Here’s a clue: anytime you read the words “think tank,” “positive impact,” “executive-in-residence” and “social capital” to describe a government job, reach for your wallet.
The money graph from The Observer article:
Commissioner Bill James, also on the board at the time, said he never viewed the Jacobsen deal as a “work product situation,” but as a deal to get him to retirement.
That “deal” likely cost taxpayers closed to a half-million dollars over three years. How’s that for a “positive impact”?
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The whole Jacobsen deal was a top level management payoff for county/govco employees. It may be Jacobsen knew something on someone, but the complicity of the County Commissioners in voting AYE in this example of theft of the tax dollars is also a problem. If memory serves, some if not all of the ‘conservatives’ voted aye.
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