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Valley Children's Healthcare is responding to claims from Fresno City Council regarding the wage of their executives.
FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Fresno City Councilmembers Miguel Arias and Gary Bredefeld person signed a missive asking California's lawyer wide Rob Bonta to analyse Valley Children's Hospital's operations.
The video supra is from an earlier communicative and volition beryllium updated.
The petition comes a time aft Valley Children's Healthcare responded to the councilmember's claims that it uses infirmary proceeds to money enforcement salaries.
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Action News has reached retired to Attorney General Rob Bonta's bureau for remark but has not heard backmost astatine the clip of writing.
While the infirmary is not successful Fresno County, Board Chair Michael Hanson wrote to the Fresno City Council 1 week aft Bredefeld and Arias called for investigations into CEO Todd Suntrapak's multi-million-dollar salary.
"We are fortunate to person leaders of the caliber of our CEO Todd Suntrapak astatine a clip erstwhile determination is aggravated nationwide contention for them ... We are arrogant of the decisions we person made and arrogant of what we bash for our community."
During an interrogation with Action News, Valley Children's Healthcare spokesperson Zara Arboleda explained Suntrapak's compensation was inflated for the 2021 taxation twelvemonth due to the fact that of a one-time accounting change.
"It appeared that successful 1 calendar twelvemonth that radical mightiness person received treble bonuses. But that was conscionable by virtuousness of the analyzable quality of taxation filings," Arboleda said.
Last week, Arias and Bredefeld distributed a 2021 taxation filing.
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It shows Suntrapak much than $5.1 cardinal successful compensation that year.
As Action News antecedently reported, a breakdown of Suntrapak's benefits shows a $1.7 cardinal basal wage with an further $3.4 cardinal successful bonuses and more.
The infirmary says Suntrapak met, quote, "significant show goals" to get those bonuses.
As for the $5 cardinal location indebtedness Suntrapak received, the infirmary says loans are commonly utilized to clasp executives.
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