WRTV: “So, you counted sleeping, eating, driving from the time you left to the time you got back?”Īdams: “If it was outside normal business hours.” WRTV counted more than 100 hours of overtime for attending meetings with staff.Īdams said his hours as chief were 8 am to 4 pm, so a meeting held at 6 am, 4 pm or on a weekend was considered overtime. That’s 421 hours of overtime for Adams last year, 80% of which was not related to covering shifts for firefighters.
Records show in 2020, Adams got paid $190,345 including $41,860 in overtime. It’s the administration’s compensation that’s getting some heat, including Randy Adams, who served as fire chief from 2019 up until he retired on May 21, 2021. When you think of firefighters, you probably think of rushing to the scene of a burning building, putting out fires, and saving lives.įor Wayne Township’s fire administration, they do less fire-fighting and more office work, like overseeing budgets and personnel. “It’s outside my normal business hours,” former fire chief says about his overtime It’s taken WRTV Investigates Kara Kenney months to file records requests and review hundreds of pages of documents, and what we found is raising eyebrows and prompting changes. WRTV started getting questions back in February about the Wayne Township Fire Department administration and what some called an excessive amount of pay they received in 2020. Records obtained by WRTV Investigates showed Adams and his administration charged taxpayers overtime for travel to inspect fire trucks and to attend meetings at the administration building. WRTV Investigates uncovered Randy Adams and his two deputy chiefs racked up more than 1,358 hours in overtime in 20, totaling $113,290. INDIANAPOLIS - A former fire chief in Wayne Township and his administration are taking heat and questions about their overtime pay.
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