Democrats in the Monroe County Legislature want the county’s Office of Public Integrity to look into how Sheriff Patrick O’Flynn came to be overpaid, and if the process the county used to fix the error is legal.
The 2017 county budget gives Sheriff O’Flynn a 136,700 salary, but the county administration found he was getting more than $149,000 instead. County Executive Cheryl Dinolfo called it a “typo” and her administration moved to fix the budget documents with a “scrivener’s affidavit.” That’s a legal tool often used to correct clerical errors found on property deeds.
Democratic Minority leader Cindy Kaleh says her members want to know how what lawmakers voted on last fall ended up becoming a higher pay rate.