Deciding how to decide the pay raise issue
-
- March
- 5
The pay advisory panel formed by the Westchester Board of Legislators intends to look as far away as California for input into the matter of how much local lawmakers should earn.
William Mooney, chairman of the Compensation Advisory Board, said the panel will review legislative salaries in such demographically similar communities as Fairfax, Va., and Orange County, California, to see whether legislators in Westchester deserve more money.
“We thought it would be interesting to look at organizations that have similar demographics,” Mooney said after the seven-member panel held its first meeting this morning.
Mooney, president of the Westchester County Association, described it as a “getting started” meeting, in which the members a largely discussed what information they will be seeking from the Board of Legislators. That information includes the salary history of Westchester lawmakers and the staffing levels at the board over the past five years.
Looking at the number of staff, Mooney said, will help the panel determine how productive the Board of Legislators has been, he said. The panel, which must issue recommendations by the end of April, will meet again Tuesday at 5 p.m.
This entry was posted
on Wednesday, March 5th, 2008 at 4:58 pm by Glenn Blain.
You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.
| 
Email This
Is it true that Westchester County’s CSEA members have been working without a contract for years?
Yes, it is true that the county’s unionized employees have no contract.
And let the datum not be lost that Mr Mooney is enmeshed in the county government’s money chase. The Westchester County Association (William Mooney, capo de tutti capo) pays for County Executive Spano’s trips to Communs China. The county budget includes a line item entry sending money to the association. The funding must be approved by the county board. And Mr. Mooney will now be among the worthies designated as qualified to recommend the pay scale of the county board.
No conflict of interest according to The Journal News, because Mr. Mooney is a good guy.
Please tell me if I am missing something, but has anyone truly justified this pay increase. I think many feel these guys (and gals) are overpaid to begin with. When you consider that a State Legislator, which is truly a part-time job, gets 79,500 how do you justify anything even close to that for this post which is not even part time and mostly involves work that is created for them to make them feel important. I’m a Democrat, but my kudos to the GOP for speaking up on this one…
Here we go…this committee has just one reason for its existence…and that is to provide political cover to pass pay raises for the county legislators. There is no stopping the pay raises now!
First: I am often appalled at the anonymity seeked by the posters on this blog. Everyone offering an opinion should be courageous enough to use his or her real name, assuming each is up to supporting true citizen involvement in our mutual affairs. (Note: I am not attempting to be self-righteous; it’s only that the ability to use pseudonyms which allows the many to speak—though thwarting the few who wish to speak while being forthright about their identity, and concerns.)
The problem with Mr. Ryan is that he unfortunately comes off as a megalomaniac as he seeks to triple his remuneration from taxpayers. Ryan assumes, maybe delusionally, that he is one of the five Los Angeles County Supervisors who truly play God in my hometown. Note: Remember Baldo Kristovich, Mr. Ryan.
Mr. Ryan may be lacking in one human quality: humility. And, he may have gotten himself into “public service” for the wrong reasons.
I should be happy—though not pious—to welcome Mr. Ryan to St. Matthew’s RC in Hastings, where he may regain the human humility he may need to be a good public servant—should he wish to be one. Nine O’clock, Sunday morning.