Sentences with phrase «york city payroll»

Some city officials have rejected Mr. Cuomo's call to pay for half the repairs, arguing that 70 percent of the operating budget of the controlling agency, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, already comes from New York City payroll and other taxes.

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Husing was a payroll clerk for a New York City hosiery manufacturer in 1925 when a local station hired him for a studio announcing job for which 600 others had also auditioned.

During testimony from current and former aides to Cuomo, it was revealed that while Percoco was off the state payroll managing Cuomo's 2014 reelection campaign, he was also frequently using his old offices, adjacent to the governor's offices in Albany and New York City.

According to the Cuomo administration official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the ongoing discussions have not yet been formalized, the chief executives of the largest employers in New York City are willing to consider the move to a payroll tax system.

The New York corporations want to be included in the plan to move to a payroll tax, but the administration source declined to name companies, citing instead the Partnership for New York City, which represents business leaders and employers.

Panepinto confirmed then that four staffers had left his Senate payroll since the end of December, including Daniel Corum, a former employee of the New York City teachers union who worked on the senator's 2014 campaign before joining his staff in 2015.

If Ryan Cronin really wants to talk about taxpayer money we can certainly do that — starting with the 124 different tax increases his New York City Democrat cronies approved the last time they were in the majority, including the job - killing MTA payroll tax and elimination of the STAR rebate checks for seniors and homeowners who live on Long Island.»

«We are going to win all nine seats on Long Island this year because no one wants to go back to the time when New York City Democrats controlled our entire state government and enacted the MTA payroll tax,» Reif said.

The tax, as currently constructed, levies $.34 on every $ 100 of payroll in New York City and the surrounding, commuter - heavy counties.

In 2009 and 2010, Gov. Paterson and the New York City controlled legislature imposed a heavy payroll tax to pay for the MTA system and it hit businesses hard.

Comptroller John Liu stepped up his criticism of Mayor Michael Bloomberg's financial stewardship in light of the burgeoning scandal surrounding New York City's long - delayed computerized payroll system, reproaching the mayor for suggesting there's little that can be done to prevent high - tech projects from ballooning over budget.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — The average pay for police and fire department employees in Syracuse was $ 83,882 last year, the highest of any city in Central New York, according to an analysis of public payrolls released today by the Empire Center for Public Policy.

- Administering the New York State and Local Retirement System for public employees, with more than one million members, retirees and beneficiaries and more than 3,000 employers; - Acting as sole trustee of the $ 129 billion Common Retirement Fund, one of the largest institutional investors in the world; - Maintaining the State's accounting system and administering the State's $ 12.6 billion payroll; - Issuing reports on State finances; - Managing the State's assets and issuing debt; - Reviewing State contracts and payments before they are issued; - Conducting audits of State agencies and public benefit corporations; - Overseeing the fiscal affairs of local governments, including New York City; - Overseeing the Justice Court Fund and the Oil Spill Fund Acting as custodian of more than $ 9 billion in abandoned property and restoring unclaimed funds to their rightful owners;

``... His opponent, who has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars of his own money and gotten nowhere, is seeking to join the same New York City - dominated conference that enacted the job - killing MTA payroll tax, took the STAR rebate checks away from seniors and homeowners, and shifted school aid to New York City at Long Island's expense.»

Since taking office in 2014, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has added more than 25,000 employees to the city payroll and spending has increased nearly 20 percent, including $ 300 million a year for universal pre-K and $ 75 million for 1,300 new police officCity Mayor Bill de Blasio has added more than 25,000 employees to the city payroll and spending has increased nearly 20 percent, including $ 300 million a year for universal pre-K and $ 75 million for 1,300 new police officcity payroll and spending has increased nearly 20 percent, including $ 300 million a year for universal pre-K and $ 75 million for 1,300 new police officers.

This year, the issues faces lawmakers and Cuomo have been especially complex: Congestion pricing for New York City, a $ 4.4 billion shortfall that's being plugged with the help of slowed spending and tax and fee increases and the possible adoption of a payroll tax to either replace or supplant the personal income tax.

The city of New York has been ordered to pay the legal costs and fees to the Empire Center for Public Policy in connection with the Center's successful effort to obtain city payroll data under the state Freedom of Information Law.

Hawkins said that such practices would include environmental audits, tracking economic indicators of public welfare and sustainability, and instituting a Syracuse version of New York City's online «Checkbook NYC» transparency tool that tracks the budget, revenue, spending, payroll, and contracts, including minority and women's business enterprise contracts, in real time.

There's been speculation that companies most interested in a payroll tax would be firms that employ high - income earners from higher taxed areas of the state, like New York City and its surrounding suburbs.

Then, in 2008, Supervisor Brian Foley left for greener pastures in the state Senate and sold his soul to New York City leadership with one of the deciding votes to pass the MTA payroll tax.

Maertz, an insurance litigation and trial attorney, said she wants to see more money come back to Suffolk from the state, adding that Long Island effectively is subsidizing other regions, especially New York City with the MTA payroll tax, as well as areas upstate.

The members of the two organizations that plotted that Town Hall stunt are aggressively uninterested in other things, too: the MTA payroll tax on New York City - commuter counties, «illegals» using area emergency rooms, questions about the moral rightness of Peter King's American - Muslim - radicalization hearings in Congress, and generally footing the bill for other people's stuff.

They'll also emphasize the passage of two timely budgets and the rollback of a payroll tax on some businesses in New York City's suburbs, approved last year along with the renewal of an expiring surcharge on millionaires.

Beyond the payroll tax and charitable donation programs, Cuomo offered up ideas to reduce traffic congestion in New York City, expand availability of flu vaccines for children, impose restrictions on sex offenders, provide funding for an early voting program, ban synthetic marijuana sales and target physicians who engage in medical misconduct.

During testimony from current and former aides to Cuomo, it was revealed that while Percoco was off the state payroll managing Cuomo's 2014 re-election campaign, he also was frequently using his old offices, adjacent to the governor's offices in Albany and New York City.

Local state senators introduced a bill in the Senate Monday that, if approved, would repeal the Metropolitan Transit Authority payroll tax for all employers in counties outside New York City.

In March, Wolfson went on the city's payroll as a deputy mayor, part of the administration's third - term overhaul that also dispatched Michelle Goldstein to Washington as New York's chief lobbyist.

Officials in New York City, Los Angeles, and Chicago might complain that the comparison is unfair because most of the people who appear on the central - office payroll actually work in schools.

New York City teachers who have been unable to find new jobs in the district under a new hiring policy, but remain on the payroll, will cost the city $ 81 million by the end of this school year, a report sCity teachers who have been unable to find new jobs in the district under a new hiring policy, but remain on the payroll, will cost the city $ 81 million by the end of this school year, a report scity $ 81 million by the end of this school year, a report says.

Last week the New York State Teachers» Retirement System (NYSTRS), which provides a defined benefit pension plan to public school teachers and administrators outside of New York City, announced it was raising the required employer contribution rate * from 16.25 to 17.53 percent of payroll.