Back in 2008, Black Wednesday County Commissioner Phil Ballard was elected to the position of Knox County Property Assessor. He was re-elected in 2012. He is term limited and ineligible to run in 2016. Several names are beginning to circulate as potential 2016 candidates. Names I have heard are (in no particular order) Former Property Assessor John Whitehead, Republican Activist Andrew Graybeal, Certified Appraiser and Instructional Appraiser Claude Weems, III and of course Craig Leuthold who joined the Assessors Office the day after Labor Day 2014 (yes, this year).
Much of the information about the Assessors office has not been transparent. We exposed earlier this year, allegedly forged time cards, employees on leave receiving pay during times they had not swiped their access card to gain entrance to the City County Building.
With Leuthold’s hiring a couple months ago at a rumored $50,000 salary. A source of BrianHornback.Com obtained the annual pay for the Property Assessors office. So we list this public information in an attempt to educate the public about the operation of the Property Assessors Office.
135,071.04 BALLARD WILLIAM
91,819.78 WEAVER JAMES
87,359.74 LEWIS ARTHUR
67,211.82 CARTER VICKIE
65,137.54 KEELER ROBERT
61,959.04 TURNER LINDA
54,939.82 LEUTHOLD CRAIG (hired September 2014)
51,346.10 DALTON CARY
44,344.30 MATHIS BARRY
44,344.30 OWNBY ROGER
42,593.72 SMITH PEGGY
41,277.08 JOHNSON MARK
41,011.62 LANE RODNEY
40,855.36 COTTEN KIMBERLY
40,855.36 RUSSELL DOUGLAS
40,485.90 MCPHETRIDGE GREGORY
38,908.74 PAUL HUBERT
38,908.74 CAMERON FRANK
36,955.62 BROWN TAMYRA
36,280.40 ALLEN JODIE
36,280.40 LAWSON TERESA
36,054.20 WIDNER MICHAEL
35,380.54 SAWYER DALETA
35,153.04 WISER WARREN
34,251.88 SANDERS PERRY
34,251.88 JONES GARY
33,293.26 GARD HANNAH
33,065.50 BROWN CHARLES
32,818.24 COBB CHARLES
32,449.04 KITTS SEAN
32,278.48 READ MARYBETH
32,010.94 TAYLOR JORDAN
31,688.80 CLARK KIMBERLY
31,547.62 WOODRUFF CHRISTOPHER
31,491.20 BURNETTE REBECCA
31,287.88 LONG VADA
30,886.70 ROBINSON MARSHA
30,703.66 DAVIS NIKKI
30,703.66 KIDD MARK
29,916.64 LOGAN LEWIS
29,429.92 TAYLOR ERRITT
29,429.92 LONG TRACI ANN
29,129.62 MARTIN JODY
29,129.62 GRUBB HEATH
29,129.62 BENEDICT AMANDA
29,129.62 SCRIBNER DEBBIE
23,933.26 KOHO ROBERT
17,550.00 MAHONEY GARY
3,698.50 GOUFFON JOSEPH
2,626.00 SALOMONE JEROME
2,626.00 ANDERTON JOHN
2,200.90 DONALDSON JOHN
2,200.90 RAY BARBARA
2,200.90 JOHNSON ARCHIE
I am unaware of the actual status (full or part time) so that could affect some of the salaries.
Warren Wiser? Surely he’s not kin to Donnie Wiser, former ghost employee of Mike Lowe? Is he?
(Yes)
Well thanks so much for the information, I do believe the county is getting the screws put to the taxpayers, one moron at a time. Craig and Phil lets face it, the best shot was when the smoozer ran for trustee, at best he lost and is deeply in debt to boot. And you honestly think he can plaster the town with signs and pull it off this time? Well don’t hold your breath your asshole might blow up. The way I hear it, and its louder than a fart in a catholic church, Craig hasn’t the knowledge needed to be assessor, and the county is paying the Little Craig goes to school fund. Tim Burchett I am laying this one at your front door and making a formal request here today for an explanation. Put those readers on your eyes, not down your nose and answer this one. Is the county paying the education costs to send Craig Leuthold to school for any educational purposes or certifications required to become a property assessor? Damn I could have written this as a ballot question…
Now that several ass holes are puckering, so early in the morning lets move on to this salary business. When looking over this travesty it resembles the rise and fall of Jim and Tammy Bakker. Your kidding me that the following people are making this much per hour:
Jim Weaver $44.14 equal to 6 salaries of Walmart door greeters
Arthur Lewis $41.99 equal to 5 PBA sanitation clerks
Vickie Carter $32.31 equal to 4 Waste Management garbage collectors
Robert Keller $31.31 equal to 4 CNA’s out at the rest home
Linda Turner $29.78 equal to 4 nursery school teachers
Craig Leuthold $26.41 equal to 4 ditch diggers
You see clearly hourly makes better sense, six salaries versus 27 salaries for people that perform hard manual labor, and these ass clowns do nothing correct. Hell the butter and egg man should have hired Moore to over see these folks, I could have understood the logic and accepted the facts a bit easier.
Transparent, hell even Helen Keller could see the facts clearly, the Butter and Egg man has hired the political society to cover his dumb ass. The video I have seen from the office meeting several years ago was a classic, and I will quote the Butter and Egg man:
“HOW MANY OF YOU PEOPLE KNEW SOMEONE TO GET YOU THIS JOB?, I WAS ELECTED TO THIS JOB!”
Opps… there goes the cell phones, the policy will go into effect as fast as Vickie can type up the memo, that is if she isn’t liquored up and drunk today, t is Friday. This man is scared of his shadow, $60,000.00 for security monitoring and cameras for $30.00 worth of copy money and the flower fund, and someone stole that. Burchett, what are you going to get him next, a plane to use for assessing or to fly back and forth to Florida.
A few good people doing the work paid nothing and the ones at the top who could not find there way out of a paper poke with a neon sign arrow pointing EXIT HERE!