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ROTTERDAM
Del Gallo to close part of office amid flap
BY JUSTIN MASON Gazette Reporter

    Supervisor Frank Del Gallo will keep part of his office closed after his confidential secretary quit on Friday over a cut in pay.
    Darlene Mullally put in her notice earlier this month after members of the Town Board refused to pay her a $665 weekly salary for about 20 hours of work. The board afforded Mullally a $35,490 salary for working full-time in the 2011 budget, but Del Gallo was going to allow her to make roughly the same pay for working part-time.
    In requesting the change, Del Gallo said Mullally’s hourly rate would be brought closer to what she was making before the board cut her pay last year. Mullally’s salary was set at $42,000 with full employee benefi ts and a $10,000 stipend when she was hired in 2010.
    Del Gallo said Mullally’s adjusted pay wasn’t in line with what other secretaries in Town Hall are making. He said the lower pay almost makes it not worth her while to work in the town, especially if her salary is pro-rated to reflect her part-time work.
    “She wouldn’t be able to survive on that,” he said Tuesday.
    Mullally’s looming retirement spurred a particularly heated discussion at the board’s agenda meeting after Del Gallo suggested that the supervisor’s office would only be open for two days each week. After some argument, Del Gallo modifi ed his statement by indicating that the office’s full-time secretary will remain on duty five days a week but his personal room in the office will be closed whenever he’s not at Town Hall.
    Board members Matt Martin, Nicola DiLeva and Wayne Calder all agreed that the impact on the public of Mullally’s departure seemed negligible, given that a secretary will remain in the office. But Del Gallo said Mullally’s absence will hamper town business, since there won’t be a confi - dential contact in the office to convey sensitive correspondences.
    Board members verbally sparred with Del Gallo and Deputy Supervisor Robert Godlewski over Mullally’s pay rate. Martin said it’s absurd to pay a non-union secretary a salary in excess of $35,000 per year.
    As an illustration, Martin said his pay as an engineer out of college was far from the salaries that are offered to starting secretaries at the town. He said Mullally was free to receive a prorated salary reflecting a reduction in hours, but he refused to consider paying her in excess of $30 per hour.
    “She can work part-time for parttime pay,” he said.
    DiLeva said Mullally never lived up to her billing when Godlewski and Del Gallo were pushing for her to be hired. At the time, Godlewski said the additional money was being well spent because Mullally’s extensive experience in state politics and her resulting connections in the Capitol would benefit the town.
    “We were lied to,” DiLeva said bluntly. “She came in on a lie, because if we weren’t lied to, she never would have been here.”
    Mullally’s hire with the town proved somewhat controversial. Kim Bruhns, Mullally’s predecessor who made $39,600 per year with full employee benefits, was told the position was being cut after receiving notice of her pending layoff in December 2009. ...........................>>>>..........................>>>>.....................http://www.dailygazette.net/De.....r00900&AppName=1

The residents were lied to too. Working together works! Working together works! She can't make ends meet at $42 an hour? Boo-hoo. Gas prices are way up! Try looking in Schenectady County for a new secretary. Another new low for the town DEMS.

VIVA REVITALIZE ROTTERDAM!!!
A rotterdam awol town clerk, an overpaid non resident secretary, a last minute budget that rotterdamians never got a chance to view, an ambulance scam that cost the taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars, last minute attorney fees that rotterdamians never got a chance to dispute, the floral ave fiasco, the rotterdam senior gossip center fiasco, the spot zoning to the friends andfamily club.........and the list goes on!!

the constantino corrupt days are alive and well in rotterdam!! And if rotterdamians vote for another democon, this will continue!!!

VOTE ALLIANCE/NNTP CANDIDATES!!!!

Bye-bye Darlene!

"Both are residents of EAST GREENBUSH?" Thank you former REP town chairman who let this happen. He don't need no NNTP. Recall of FDG and his last supporter Bob God should start today. Can't wait until January to remove these DEM "public servants". It would be funny if it wasn't so pathetic. Had enough-YET?

Quoted from bumblethru

VIVA REVITALIZE ROTTERDAM!!!
A rotterdam awol town clerk, an overpaid non resident secretary, a last minute budget that rotterdamians never got a chance to view, an ambulance scam that cost the taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars, last minute attorney fees that rotterdamians never got a chance to dispute, the floral ave fiasco, the rotterdam senior gossip center fiasco, the spot zoning to the friends andfamily club.........and the list goes on!!

the constantino corrupt days are alive and well in rotterdam!! And if rotterdamians vote for another democon, this will continue!!!

VOTE ALLIANCE/NNTP CANDIDATES!!!!

           And the race track that wasn't a race track but really was a race track!

Maybe with the lower rate, they can get someone who lives a little closer and doesn't have to spend as much on gas to get to work.  You know, like a town resident?

Quoted from Kevin March

Maybe with the lower rate, they can get someone who lives a little closer and doesn't have to spend as much on gas to get to work.  You know, like a town resident?

        Rotterdam will not lose a thing if the Supervisor's office is closed a couple of days.  In fact it might be a good thing, maybe a good strategy for damage control!  Regarding the conf. secretary, FDG has already played 52 card pickup with the secretarial staff, just move one over to that spot.  We don't need another patronage salary on the residents' backs.

Quoted from Kevin March

You know, like a town resident?

     C'mon they wouldn't be able to survive on a mere $42 an hour. They have to eat. This secretary job must go to a friend of SS Savage who lives in East Greenbush. Where's Boomer, DVR and Yossi on this latest outrage? A DEM funny farm.

EVERYONE should make $42 and hour (on the taxpayer backs so says the democrap party!)

It is true, with how things are going, maybe you can pay someone outside the county more.  I mean really, it's not like they have to pay Schenectady County taxes State and Federal Mandates handled by the middlemen down in the County Building.

Quoted from benny salami

"Both are residents of EAST GREENBUSH?" Thank you former REP town chairman who let this happen. He don't need no NNTP. Recall of FDG and his last supporter Bob God should start today. Can't wait until January to remove these DEM "public servants". It would be funny if it wasn't so pathetic. Had enough-YET?

How was this possible GP's fault!? He was on the board voted no and spoke against it...He also sued when they tried to give her a golden parachute!!!

And he was also the failed REP chair that refused to sitdown with NNTP causing this debacle. Its all George's fault right?

Even Tracy Donovan thinks so look at the other thread...... Why don't we sit down with al quaida while we are at it? Putz!

Al Quaida=NNTP? Great logic. Take another look at the last election results. George is the problem with everything in the entire State!