Mayor Bill de Blasio holds press conference at Pier 36 to thank first responders and
other city workers for their efforts during the storm on Monday January 25, 2016 -(Susan Watts / New York Daily News)(Susan Watts / New York Daily News)
Meanwhile, New York City is sending emergency responders to Puerto Rico and is
encouraging other city workers to volunteer with island recovery efforts.
Before reeling off a series of new initiatives, the mayor took time to recognize hero cops and
other city workers in the audience, including rookie Officer Keith Gorden, who saved the life of a fellow officer «just yesterday» by performing the Heimlich maneuver.
The UFT's position is that its members are entitled to the same raises
as other city workers have received.
Outside the school, more than 100 Chicago police officers, Secret Service guards (including snipers posted on two roofs), and platoons
of other city workers kept the public out of the public school the president chose for the site of the event celebrating his public schools policy.
The mayor declined to comment on whether the Conflicts of Interest Board, the city's ethics panel, should penalize Ponte as it has
other city workers.
Even with the gridlock over, Lanza said he still plans to vote against New York City's sales - tax increase, the lack of which officials here said was costing the city $ 60 million a month and delaying the hiring of cops, EMTs and
other city workers.
Beyond that, Brown's contributors run the gamut, from current and former elected officials, to developers, lawyers and other firms and individuals doing business with the city, as well as City Hall department heads and
other city workers.
The raises for principals, termed «productivity increases,» would average $ 18,000 - 20,000 above the raises for
other city workers.
De Blasio could easily have paid for the $ 340 million pre-K expansion in the program's first year, and most of the ongoing cost in subsequent years, by requiring teachers and
other city workers and retirees to contribute 10 percent to their health insurance premiums (amounting to nearly $ 550 million, according to the Independent Budget Office).