Sentences with phrase «pay of elected officials»

Requiring regular commissions and placing the responsibility for recommending salary increases on private citizens are means to quell discontent around the inherently contentious issue of raising the pay of elected officials.

A state salary commission is currently studying the pay of elected officials, with recommendations due late next year.

Not exact matches

Regardless of which recommendations are adopted, this is the type of issue that will never really go away (someone will always be displeased with how much or how little our elected officials are paid).

Paying politicians: The un-dying issue of how the salaries of our elected officials continues.

Funny how Toby et al consider a picture or sculpture of a naked woman an obscenity and their elected officials cover even «blind justice» statues, but they think that a PAID SALESMAN of a dead religion tormenting a dying nonbeliever deserves no rebuke or prohibition.

When saying Merry Christmas has become a bad thing, when we can no longer have the peoples vote counted and respected by judges and elected officials, when health care for aids and other associated dieses is covered, when kids in school have to be subjected to demonstrations of gay bedroom life when the mayor of NY will no longer without reason and against the law rent churches public buildings, when teen pregnancies up 45 percent will be paid for by us the people of the US with all the cost completely covered.

As each of his «children» are elected officials, each knew they were not paying for those trips, and knew their «dad» wasn't paying for them, so they knew they were illegal (or they had an obligation to find out).

About a week ago the idea of a pay raise commission for state - elected officials looked like a dead issue.

• The Yankees paid more than $ 300,000 in the first quarter of 2006 to the Mirram Group, a firm run by Roberto Ramirez, a former Bronx As ¬ sembly member and chair of the Bronx Democratic Party who had long - term relationships with Bronx elected officials.

For Cuomo, the push and pull in the Senate is a sideshow compared to his efforts to engineer a special session that could result in the passage of constitutional amendments creating a full - time Legislature, term limits for elected officials and a reconstituted pay commission for lawmakers, who insist none of these items should be linked.

«New Yorkers deserve to know whether elected officials represented the state are paying their fair share of taxes or hold potential financial conflicts of interest,» reads the bill memo.

Thousands of constituents would ask him for help, elected officials across the state would come to pay respect to a larger than life Assemblyman.

In addition to Mr. Skelos, a healthy string of ambitious Democratic citywide and local elected officials have made the soup - ladling trek, which says nothing of their efforts to pay tribute to other prominent Jewish social service organizations but also speaks volumes about the community's growing political significance.

Proposals from Erie County's Salary Review Commission for substantial pay raises for four of the county's top elected officials crashed and burned unanimously on the floor of the Legislature Thursday afternoon.

So just to get this straight, Ms. Woerner is all for paying elected officials off instead of prosecuting them for the way they treat women on the job.

«We were just joking in our office that everyone on the second floor should resign and become a volunteer paid by the campaign, because we don't know of any laws that prohibit volunteers from acting on behalf of an elected official,» said John Kaehny, executive director of good government group Reinvent Albany.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo unveiled a new proposal Monday aimed at evaluating pay for statewide elected officials, agency commissioners and members of...

«This isn't even asking elected officials to go above and beyond, it's asking them to do what millions of New Yorkers do on a regular basis... and that is, pay your taxes.

It's that time of year again — time for Democratic elected officials and would - be candidates (and perhaps even a few Republicans, too) to trek to Albany to pay homage to the increasingly powerful — and fast - growing — Latino community at the biannual Somos el Futuro conference.

Ciarpelli, clerk since 1995, told Mahoney in a letter requesting the raise that her pay increases have not kept up with those of other elected officials.

Elected officials should serve the public because they feel it is a civic duty, not because of the rate of pay.

It includes the legalized bribery of the implicit quid pro quo that exists when wealthy individuals and special interests pay for the campaigns and extra incomes of elected officials.

Suffolk County legislators voted Wednesday to suspend automatic cost - of - living pay raises for themselves and other elected county officials for the next five years.

New York's governor says it adds «insult to injury» that taxpayers have to pay for pensions for elected officials convicted of corruption.

«Democratic elected officials across the country supported it,» he said of the fees paid to the law firms involved in the settlement talks.

The measure would suspend the law that automatically sets elected officials» pay raises based on regional cost - of - living figures.

He has also scoffed at the idea of applying outside income restrictions on statewide elected officials like himself, challenging anyone to identify how those paying his book contract benefited from his policies.

If a developer with a corporate structure similarly wanted to funnel money to an elected official, the developer could simply pay the official $ 5,000 annually from each of dozens of legally distinct clients and never appear on a disclosure form.

A large coalition of early childhood education advocates and elected officials took to the City Hall steps on Wednesday to call on Mayor Bill de Blasio — again — to fund pay parity between teachers at all pre-Kindergarten and day care centers in New York City.

Lawmakers will still be able to use campaign cash to pay for lawyers, Mr. Cuomo said — arguing that being sued comes with the territory of an elected official.

«This shocking action from officials elected to help their constituents comes at a high price for New Yorkers: every resident of this state will be forced to pay the «Faso - Collins Federal Tax» to make up the difference.»

At noon, Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney and elected officials will announce he is taking legislative action to ensure the Department of Defense pays for the remediation of PFOS and PFOA contamination at Stewart Air National Guard Base.

Elected officials who want permission to take extracurricular positions for nominal pay, or for no pay, must obtain the blessing of the new «charter conflict committee.»

Elected officials and political insiders pay close attention to this arcane process of map - drawing, because they understand well that new district lines could result in major shifts of political power.

BY PAUL SCHINDLER Despite a concerted drive in recent weeks by advocates and elected officials, Governor Andrew Cuomo's Executive Budget for the fiscal year beginning April 1 does not include appropriation of funds to ensure that New Yorkers living with AIDS and receiving government rental assistance will have the effective rent they pay capped at -LSB-...]

After talk of a pay hike for lawmakers fizzled last month, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo on Monday proposed establishing a commission to address his salary, along with state legislators, other statewide elected officials and state - agency commissioners.

Tenants should not have to pay higher rents because of Knickerbocker Village's decision to keep units empty, tenants and elected officials said.

Milwaukee County officials praised elected leaders in the city of Wauwatosa for an initial approval of a proposed bus rapid - transit route, and laid out the remaining local approvals needed before the county could apply for federal grants to pay for the system's construction.

Other proposals include freezing automatic annual pay raises for elected officials and requiring exempt employees to pay 15 percent of health care costs.

And she noted that a colleague at her first city government job in 1987 made $ 5,000 more than her despite the fact that they were in the same divisions and had the same title because «he had family to take care of» — an experience that made her more conscious of pay equity issues as an elected official.

It has been 18 years since four of Erie County's top elected officials received a pay hike.

Former Congressman Tom Reynolds joined several elected officials Tuesday in an effort to boost the pay of those caring for people with developmental disabilities.

«Of particular interest is that this Commission, for the first time ever, considered elected official salaries as they relate to pay for working New Yorkers,» he wrote.

As of July 28, Onondaga County had paid $ 154,340.82 to outside lawyers to defend a lawsuit from another elected official.

The police, the CSEA, and elected official have taken pay freezes for the past two years and it doesn't make much of a difference, according to Gromack.

Under New York State law, any change in the term of a paid elected municipal official requires a public referendum.

Outgoing Southold Town Highway Superintendent Pete Harris suggested during a budget presentation Monday that the town switch to a pay scale for elected officials — a move he said would make more funds available for new hires and the purchase of necessary equipment.

«I believe that if we ban outside income from active employment for elected officials and pay them a livable wage to raise their families, it will go a long way to cure the temptation of a few to engage in this type of bad behavior,» said Bonacic, a veteran in the Senate's Republican majority.

While no one seems to be in a rush to answer the question, a neglected sidewalk owned by one of the city's top Republican elected officials has caught the attention of other city residents forced to pay top dollar to fix their own sidewalks.

Elected officials remain wary of raising taxes to pay for infrastructure needs, but fiscal conservatives warn that the state — midway through construction of the new Tappan Zee Bridge replacement — is near its debt cap.