Total Salaries paid out to ACRE Officers Since March of 2000

Local 1                                            Local 9

Tony Bottalico       $524,199            John Gaines              $411,971

Mark Amorello       364,227             Mike Doyle                371,405

Ralf Sanzari             215,951             Dick Gunderman       161,584

Lloyd Fischbeck      210,400             Ronald DeAndrus      143,894

Dennis Perri             200,165            John Potthast              168,409

John Scalabrini        183,984             Tom Cooper               153,710

Andy Steimle            163,875            Joe Lindenberg          147,421

Bob Felicetta            158,516             Mike McCarthy          48,369

Paul Holland             130,490             Steve Donnelly            46,361

Dennis Pope             127,700             Tom Kirner                  21,282

Kirk Thomas            107,945             Dennis O'keefe            14,761

Mike Shaw                 78,060             Chris Lundy                 20,583

Byan Marcella          77,344              Richard Engel                   832

Ken Curry                  77,051

Bill McNeil                51,096     

Jeff Aveis                   35,906     

Pete Paglia                 17,123     

John Mancinelli         16,234     

Pete Coleman              6,093     

Grand Total         $2,566,359                   Grand Total     $1,710,582

In December of 1998 John Gaines and Dennis Pope stated in the very first ACRE letter to the membership “we will not be hypocritical, it's not about the money, it's always about the money”. As you can clearly see John and Dennis were not fooling around. ACRE officers have compensated themselves very well and make a comfortable side living off of this Independent Rail Association. ACRE officers have received over $4,276,941. Remember this is your dues money. ACRE officers are supposed to work for us and for our best interests. Is this truly the case, or are they working for themselves?

The ACRE Executive Board, according to their 2007 LM2 report, which they filed with the Department of Labor, states ACRE received $357,790 in dues receipts of which they spent a total of $357,790 in disbursements. In other words ACRE spent exactly what they received in ACRE member dues money. Nothing was left over, every penny ACRE takes in is spent on salaries and running the ACRE office. There is no dues surplus in ACRE. ACRE's biggest asset is the security deposit on the rented office in the Graybar Building ($59,140). When you take this out of ACRE's balance sheet you are left with an Executive Board that only has $26,671 in cash on hand and $38,135 in liabilities, which means the ACRE Executive Board is in the red in the amount of $11,464 . The ACRE Executive Board is completely broke even though they have 1,543 dues paying members. Eight years of ACRE with absolutely nothing to show for our efforts and trust.