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Trumbull CSB reaches agreement with ex-director
By Ed Runyan
WARREN
The separation agreement finalized this week with Nick Kerosky, former executive director of Trumbull County Children Services, calls for him to be paid his salary for the remainder of the year — $62,677 before taxes.
Kerosky will continue to receive health-care benefits and also will be paid for unused vacation, personal days and sick time worth another $37,994, according to the separation agreement, which Kerosky signed Monday.
The Rev. Alton Merrell, CSB board president, signed the agreement Tuesday.
Kerosky, who served as executive director about 18 months, accrued 317 hours of vacation time and 185 hours of sick-leave time at children services, said Kelly Lockhart, a spokesman and children services department manager.
Kerosky will be paid for 60 percent of his unused vacation, personal days and sick time for a total of 576 hours of unused sick time and 220 hours of unused vacation time, the agreement says.
Those two totals are multiplied by Kerosky’s hourly rate of $47.48 to arrive at $37,794.
Lockhart said Kerosky accrued 185.37 hours of sick time and 317.24 hours of vacation time during his tenure at the agency.
Sick leave can be transferred from previous employment at a Public Employees’ Retiree System job, Lockhart added.
Tim Schaffner replaced Kerosky on April 17, months after the agency found itself under scrutiny from the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services, state investigators and a local attorney.
The scrutiny stemmed mostly from the revelation that a small child in children services’ custody was raped by her biological parents while the parents visited the child at the children services’ offices on Reeves Road.
The agency has made significant changes in policy and practice since the incident, which occurred in 2011, several months after Kerosky became executive director.