Sentences with phrase «vice chairs receiving»

Gianaris sought to make a motion to have the practice of vice chairs receiving stipends end — prompting Phillips to say the issue hadn't been raised before the meeting.

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Seven lawmakers who hold vice chair posts in the chamber have received stipends otherwise designated for committee chairs.

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 comment was in response to a New York Post story on some vice chairs — who receive stipends normally reserved for committee chairman — not attending committee meetings.

'' When I agreed to be deputy vice chair, I didn't ask for extra money and I didn't know at that time I would receive a stipend,» she said.

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.

«I am humbled to receive the support of Chair Byron Brown and Vice Chair Chris Quinn,» Meng 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. José Peralta (D - Queens), an IDC member, defended getting $ 12,500 as vice chair of the Energy and Telecommunications Commission, saying he received $ 14,500 as minority whip.

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.

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.

Kosmider received a unanimous vote to remain chairwoman, as did Margaret Bartley of Elizabethtown as vice chair.

Karas also sentenced Tabone, a former Queens Republican Party vice chair who was convicted of receiving bribes on Smith's behalf, to 3 ¹ / ₂ years in prison.

Prepared by the chamber's Energy and Telecommunications Committee — for which Peralta controversially receives a $ 12,500 stipend intended for its chair but passed to him as vice chair — the report surveyed constituents about pre-paid cards.

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.

In each case, the senators served as vice chairs, while the actual chairpeople — all of whom are Republicans — received larger stipends for other leadership roles.

Vice chairs are not listed as receiving any payments.

Out of 814 votes cast with a 211 - vote threshold for election for two female at - large vice chair positions, Meng received 216.5 votes, while Maria Elena Durazo — a prominent Californian labor leader endorsed by Mayor Bill de Blasio — received 228.5 votes.

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.

Three breakaway Democrats who received stipends in recent years while serving as vice chairs also argued Monday that everything was done according to the law.

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

But he receives a higher stipend for the vice - chair position than the amount he would have received if he were paid for the committee chair post.

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 committee.

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.

Because the liver receives 70 % of its blood supply from the intestine, it is important to understand how the gut contributes to liver disease development,» explained lead investigator Yu - Jui Yvonne Wan, PhD, Professor and Vice Chair of the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at UC Davis Health.

David B. Weiner, Ph.D., executive vice president, director of the Vaccine & Immunotherapy Center, and the W.W. Smith Endowed Chair in Cancer Research at The Wistar Institute, and peers received the 2018 Top Ten Clinical Research Achievement Award last night at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.

Dr. John Noseworthy, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Mayo Clinic, and Dr. John Cheh, Vice Chair and Chief Executive Officer of «the world's biggest shirt maker» Esquel, will receive honorary degrees from Western University at the 2012 convocations.

«If a pregnant woman has high blood pressure during a clinical visit, she should receive further testing and evaluation,» said task force vice chair Dr. David Grossman.

John McDonough, vice chair of Cozen O'Connor's Commercial Litigation Practice Group, will receive The James S. Conway Award for outstanding service to the defense community at DANY's Annual Awards Dinner and Meeting on April 11 in New York City.

She received her ECE diploma in 2016 from Sault College where she served as President of the Sault College Early Childhood Education Chapter Class of 2016 and Vice Chair of Sault College Advisory College Council 2014 — 2015.