Sentences with phrase «leadership stipends»

The payments were revealed last week by The New York Times, which reported that IDC members have received committee leadership stipends, often called lulus, even though they were vice chairs, not chairs, of the committees they serve on.

Lawmakers earn a base pay of $ 79,500, though many earn more through leadership stipends, and, of course, per diems.

Many lawmakers receive more in the form of committee and leadership stipends as well as travel reimbursement.

On top of that, members can be given leadership stipends for positions such as committee chairmanships that range from $ 9,000 to $ 41,500 per year.

Lawmakers last received a pay raise in 1999, while many earn more from legislative leadership stipends.

In contrast, of the 120 large - district contracts in the National Council on Teacher Quality's national database, most stipends are less than $ 3,000, and the biggest specified leadership stipend (for department chairs in Wichita, Kansas) is $ 8,614.

First, she confirmed the Times Union's Tuesday story that deputy conference leader Sen. Michael Gianaris, D - Queens, and Senate Democratic staffers met with the Albany County district attorney's office last week to discuss an ongoing controversy over several committee leadership stipends being diverted to certain IDC and Republican senators.

State lawmakers currently earn $ 79,500, plus leadership stipends.

The «part - time» Brooklyn lawmaker earns $ 88,500 annually, including a $ 9,000 leadership stipend.

And most important of all, I am for reducing state government spending: this includes ending «leadership stipends» and «member items» for legislators, and for ending the practice of state government imposing «unfunded mandates» on local governments.

Senators are not allowed to take more than one committee or leadership stipend.

Assembly Democrats belong to the one conference in Albany with far more members than there are leadership stipends.

New York City politician Ydanis Rodriguez, who was roughed up and arrested during the NYPD raid on Zuccotti Park, has requested permission from City Council Speaker Christine Quinn to donate his latest $ 5,000 leadership stipend to Occupy Wall Street, which he calls «the best thing to have happened in our city for the last couple of decades.»

Parker received a lump - sum payment last month for his $ 22,000 leadership stipend, forcing Senate Majority Leader Malcolm Smith (D - Queens) to scramble Monday for a way to get at least some of the the money back.

Isn't he double dipping by collecting a pension along with a salary and leadership stipend?