When Dr. [Fred Rosetti, Ed.D.] retired from the NEIU post in 2010, he expected to receive a total of $623,000 - $143,000 in a retirement incentive and $480,000 in accrued sick and vacation days. The NEIU board later decided Dr. Rosetti was ineligible for the retirement incentive.

Apart from the Rosetti case, in the past five years, more than $1.5 million in taxpayer money has been paid to retiring top administrators in the area, mostly for unused sick and vacation days, according to a recent Times-Tribune analysis.