Sentences with phrase «city payroll»

The Bill & Melinda Gates - funded advocacy group Educators 4 Excellence, for instance, had suggested a comprise in which such teachers would be given two hiring cycles to find a job, but then be dropped from city payrolls.

Special assistant Emil Lissauer, who joined City Hall in May 2008, suffered a $ 8,238 pay cut — 5.25 percent — to $ 148,625 in Fiscal Year 2016, according to city payroll records analyzed by the Empire Center for Public Policy.

In his annual budget address in City Council Chambers on October 15, 2008, Daley proposed a 2009 budget totaling $ 5.97 billion, including not filling 1,350 vacancies on the 38,000 employee city payroll and $ 150 million in new revenue from a then - obscure parking meter lease deal to help erase a $ 469 million budget shortfall.

The cost of the entire city payroll grew less than 13 percent over the same period, according to data compiled by the nonprofit Empire Center for Public Policy.

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.

Mayor de Blasio is up for re-election Tuesday after a controversial term marked by corruption probes, a bloated city payroll and a shift in police policy.

Syracuse, N.Y. — Although Syracuse officials were warned in 2009 that it's illegal, Mayor Stephanie Miner has continued the decades - old practice of placing certain city workers — many of whom are politically connected — on a shadow city payroll beyond the reach of state civil service rules.

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.

none of these proposals say much about how effective any of these taxes will be and they try to seduce us with the offer of income tax deductions — it is reasonable to assume it is just another way to pay off bloated and overpriced city payrolls while using the cover of innovation.

The job pays about $ 36,000, according to city payroll records.

But two of the city's hottest technology start - ups, Twitter and Zynga, are threatening to leave San Francisco unless they get a break from a city payroll tax that could, given the estimated multibillion - dollar valuations of the two companies, amount to tens of millions of dollars.

Koslowitz built up her pension after 23 years on the city payroll, including a decade in the council that ended in 2001 after the arrival of term limits.

Miner has assured the Common Council in recent months that she intends to return as many SURA employees to the city payroll as fast as she can.

It also comes as the inmate population in the city's jails is at an all - time low — meaning there will soon be more uniformed correction staff on the city payroll than inmates in its jails.

The hiring spree will swell the city payroll to a record 322,446 as of July, an 8.4 percent jump over the final year of the Bloomberg administration, when 297,349 workers were collecting paychecks.

The list includes 23 big - bucks donors who got appointed to municipal boards and committees, eight developers who benefited from government actions or policy changes, six political allies put on the city payroll and five business owners who scored lucrative contracts.

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 officers.

Some were on the city payroll, but most were in favored law firms, public relations and consultant shops.

Dietl also criticized the audience for being loud and intrusive, suggesting that it was stacked with de Blasio supporters on the City payroll.

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio padded the city payroll with 264 «special assistants» during the past fiscal year — a more than 140 percent increase over his predecessor.

But I'm often on the city payroll Saturdays, Sundays and nights.

[2] The author of an ambitious public housing renewal program in his later years as mayor, he began by cutting spending and taxes and cutting 7,000 from the city payroll.

In recent months, she negotiated new contracts with non-uniformed employees that provide 2 percent pay raises, but the city payroll is still more than $ 1 million lower than when Miner took office.

«Would I be happy that everybody working for the city was on the city payroll and not on this other payroll that seems to be a phantom payroll with phantom rules?

A key risk factor identified by voices like The Daily News editorial board, Gelinas, CBC, and others, is de Blasio's expansion of the city payroll by thousands of employees.

Once the SPCA gives the city formal notice, the commission agreed, City Manager Harold Emrich can advertise to add two animal control officers to the city payroll.