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Resident alleges city compensation study was "rigged," urges grand jury probe
Summary
During public comment at the May 5 Lexington City council work session, resident Rick Day alleged the urban county government’s compensation study was rigged, said the results harmed roughly 1,500 employees, called it theft or possible financial fraud, and urged the council to send the matter to a grand jury rather than a committee.
Rick Day of the 3rd District used his allotted three minutes of public comment at the Lexington City council work session on May 5 to accuse the urban county government’s compensation study of being "rigged," and urged the council to pursue criminal review.
Day said the study affected about 1,500 employees and alleged its results were predetermined by the administration rather than produced by the contractor’s quantitative analysis. He told the council the practice "may be stealing money from the urban county government" and suggested the council "send it to a grand jury" rather than referring it to committee.
The council did not take action on Day’s request during the work session; the meeting record shows Day’s comments followed by adjournment with no staff direction or recorded motion to investigate further. The statement is an allegation by a public commenter and was not substantiated or rebutted in the session record.
The council’s process for handling such allegations was not detailed in the meeting; the commenter urged formal legal review rather than internal committee inquiry.
