WASTEFUL SPENDING CITED

Baltimore County official who used months of sick leave to get paid is no longer on the payroll

By Alison Knezevich, Baltimore Sun

A Baltimore County official paid for nearly a year after he stopped working is no longer on the county payroll.

William “Chris” McCollum, the county’s former deputy director of economic development, was cut off from pay May 18, a county spokeswoman confirmed to The Baltimore Sun on Wednesday.

McCollum’s last day of work for the county was in July 2021, but Democratic County Executive Johnny Olszewski Jr.’s administration let him use his accrued sick leave without medical documentation to stay on the payroll at his $137,710 salary.

Reached by phone, McCollum declined to comment Wednesday.

McCollum had stopped working last summer after reports by county Inspector General Kelly Madigan detailed wasteful spending and unauthorized purchases at the county agricultural center in Cockeysville while he was director.

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