Cuyahoga County property evaluator to resign Monday in light of Plain Dealer investigation

With Gabriel Baird / Plain Dealer reporter

A member of the Cuyahoga County Board of Revision plans to resign Monday after an investigation by the Plain Dealer reported Sunday that the $64,000 a year employee worked a second job on county time.

Tom Bush, 61, was paid to hear taxpayers complaints about their property assessments. But he also worked as a salesman for radio station WERE AM/1490.

Bush also could often be found at home in the afternoon and said he only worked the sales job on his county lunch break.

"I resigned," Bush said Sunday on the telephone. "That's it. I'm done. That's all I'm going to say."