A Health Department worker who was helping to garner support for Mayor Bloomberg‘s push for a term-limits extension was not working on city time, according to a time sheet released yesterday at the mayor’s request.
The Post reported Sunday that John Johnston, an $80,968-a-year research scientist at the Health Department, was rounding up support for the bill during a City Council public hearing Oct. 16. He said he was a volunteer.
“He is somebody who worked in my campaign,” Bloomberg said yesterday.
“He went to school at night. He’s been working for the city for a long time and, I gather, had a good record. I think it [the time sheet] will show he did nothing wrong whatsoever. But we’ll see.”
Johnston’s time sheet showed that he made the request to have Oct. 16 off two days earlier.
The request was granted and credited to “annual leave.”