Sentences with phrase «vice chairs of committees receiving»

The discussion surrounding stipends arose when Democratic Sen. Mike Gianaris sought to raise the issue of vice chairs of committees receiving payments normally reserved for committee chairs.

Not exact matches

All have received tens of thousands of dollars for holding the vice chair post for the funds available for the committee chair.

Sen. Patty Ritchie, the deputy vice chair of the Senate Health Committee, said she did not expect to receive money for the post.

Adding more fuel to the fire that has ignited in the Senate in recent weeks has been a controversy over paid stipends to lawmakers, including three IDC members, who hold the title of vice chair, but receive money usually designated for a committee chairman.

The use of falsely classifying lawmakers as committee chairs came under scrutiny on Friday as The New York Times reported members of the Independent Democratic Conference — Sens. David Valesky, Jose Peralta and Diane Savino — have received stipends, or «lulus» in Albany parlance, despite holding the post of vice chair.

The arrangement allows vice chairs of committees to accept chair stipends that would normally go toward the panel's leader, but in those cases the actual committee chair receives more money from another leadership title.

«I am so grateful to receive the endorsement of the New York State Democratic Committee in my campaign for DNC Vice Chair, and even more excited by the unified consensus behind my #LeadershipForTomorrow vision,» Blake said.

Spectrum News reported on Wednesday lawmakers who have received thousands of dollars as vice chairs have missed committee meetings in recent weeks.

Republican Sen. Pam Helming on Wednesday wrote on Facebook she was never told she would receive a paid stipend as vice chair of a Senate committee.

Sen. Patrick Gallivan of Elma received $ 18,000 as vice chairman of the Education Committee, $ 5,500 more than he would have been be paid for chairing the Crime Victims, Crime, and Correction Committee.

Seven senators have received payments for their work as vice chairs of committees in the chamber, but have been listed on a payroll document sent to the comptroller's office as the chairs of those committee.

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.

But another senator, Republican Pam Helming of Geneva, said in a brief statement that she is giving back the stipend she received for chairing the Crime and Correction Committee when she is actually the vice chair.

O'Mara, Ritchie and Gallivan all defended the propriety of the stipends they received as committee vice chairs.

But another Senator, Republican Pam Helming, of Geneva, said in a brief statement that she is giving back the stipend she received for chairing the Crime and Correction Committee, when she is actually in fact the vice chair of the cCommittee, when she is actually in fact the vice chair of the committeecommittee.

On October 11, Majority Leader Joseph Lorigo, Chairman of the Legislature's Finance and Management Committee, joined Henry Wojtaszek, President / CEO of Batavia Downs Gaming, Thurman Thomas, Hall of Fame former Buffalo Bills running back, Vice Chair of NYS Tourism Advisory Council and Batavia Downs Ambassador, Lee Zarpentine, Labor Relations Representative of United Public Service Employees Union (UPSEU), Comptroller Stefan Mychajliw and Mike Nolan, COO of Batavia Downs to announce Erie County has received $ 545,984 from Batavia Downs Gaming in the second quarter of 2017 alone.