Westchester board sets hearing on raises
Via Jorge Fitz-Gibbon:
WHITE PLAINS – Westchester legislators began a heated debate today over the county executive’s plan to dole out pay hikes to top commissioners and other supervisors — and that was just over setting a public hearing on the measure.
The Board of Legislators eventually set the hearing for 10:30 a.m. on Dec. 8, when the public will have a chance to chime in on County Executive Andrew Spano’s $890,000 pay increase package. Board Republicans, who oppose the raises, tried to kill the measure, but were outvoted by the majority Democrats.
The hearing will address $890,000 in pay increases that would give 3.25 percent raises to 23 of Spano’s commissioners and department heads retroactive to the beginning of this year.
The measure would also increase “step” pay for non-union managerial employees, as well as compensation pay for county prosecutors and supervisory level employees at Westchester Community College.
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don’t you think that senior members of the spano administration in light of the existing financial meltdown
would be willing to forego a raise until the coast is cleared. the 2009 budget with its less than 3% tax increase
is simply a ruse to get spano through the election ….then
in his last term he can raise taxes 18%
Especially when you consider that they have many other ways to nefariously get their hands on money without the public ever knowing anything about it. There’s an old (true) story about a big-time sports reporter for a large newspaper who was sent to cover the Super Bowl and put in his expense account reimbursement request, $75 for a Dallas Cowboy hat. When the request for reimbursement was denied, in the next month’s expenses list that he sent in for reimbursement, he wrote: “The hat’s in there somewhere. See if you can find it.”