Some county staff could see 1.5 percent raise Legislature sets public hearings for 11 ‘modest’ pay hikes By John Purcell As of Monday, January 23, 2012
#Schenectady County — Although 11 pay raises for county employees were included in the 2012 budget, residents can weigh in before they’re approved.
#The Schenectady County Legislature on Tuesday, Jan. 10, introduced two proposed local laws allowing for a 1.5 percent pay raise for 11 county employees — eight appointed officials and three elected officials — to be retroactively applied dating back to 2011.
#Due to the targeted positions, a local law is required to provide a salary increase, and a public hearing is required on local laws. The public hearing is set for the upcoming County Legislature meeting on Monday, Feb. 6, at 7 p.m.
#Majority Leader Gary Hughes, D-Schenectady, said the pay raises were included in the budget, but a local law must be presented instead of a simple resolution.
#The three elected officials receiving a salary increase include the county clerk, sheriff and district attorney. These officials haven’t received a pay raise since 2008, according to county spokesman Joe McQueen, though 3 percent raises were included in the 2009 and 2010 county budgets.
#McQueen said while those previous increases were budgeted, the raises were never paid out because the County Legislature never voted to increase the salaries of elected officials in 2009 or 2010, as opposed to what is being done now.
#He believed the last union contract held three percent salary increases for 2009 and 2010, which is why the three elected officials were budgeted for similar increases even though they’re not union members.
retroactively applies. Something you see ALL THE TIME in the private sector: NOT!
More cronyism. People are asleep as the democraps break in and steal their money. You might as well just leave your houses unlocked- any theft by burglars would be cheaper.
"While Foreign Terrorists were plotting to murder and maim using homemade bombs in Boston, Democrap officials in Washington DC, Albany and here were busy watching ME and other law abiding American Citizens who are gun owners and taxpayers, in an effort to blame the nation's lack of security on US so that they could have a political scapegoat."
there are many positions at the county level that are 'appointed' and can clearly be abolished.
the entire county leg should be abolished and replaced by a board of supervisors. It would run more efficiently, with equal representation and a hell of a lot cheaper!!!
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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ain't that F'EN sweet for them.....maybe they could scale down their own personal lives and forgoe the raises maybe get rid of their special full package cable/cell phones and maybe move to small homes with 1 bathroom and maybe CHEAPER CARS.....everyone else has to beg for $$ (heap etc) they dont get raises....
you see it's sh!t like this that really pisses off the masses.....and dont forget their guaranteed retirement.....I better stop before I break my keyboard..... > > > > > > > >
...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......
The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.
STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS
"While Foreign Terrorists were plotting to murder and maim using homemade bombs in Boston, Democrap officials in Washington DC, Albany and here were busy watching ME and other law abiding American Citizens who are gun owners and taxpayers, in an effort to blame the nation's lack of security on US so that they could have a political scapegoat."
"While Foreign Terrorists were plotting to murder and maim using homemade bombs in Boston, Democrap officials in Washington DC, Albany and here were busy watching ME and other law abiding American Citizens who are gun owners and taxpayers, in an effort to blame the nation's lack of security on US so that they could have a political scapegoat."
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