{"id":1757,"date":"2006-11-08T10:21:22","date_gmt":"2006-11-08T18:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/11\/at_least_they_didnt_do_this_yesterday.html"},"modified":"2008-01-24T15:43:13","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T20:43:13","slug":"at_least_they_d_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/11\/at_least_they_d_1.html","title":{"rendered":"At Least They Didn’t Do This Yesterday"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today is as good a time as any to bury the fact that you’re voting yourself a 25 percent pay raise — retroactive to last week<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Now that Election Day is over, the 51 members of the City Council will turn to some unfinished business.<\/p>\n

Like holding a public hearing today on a bill to give themselves a $22,500 pay raise — at an annual combined cost to taxpayers of $1,147,500.<\/p>\n

The hearing by the Governmental Operations Committee is set to start at 4:30 p.m., ostensibly to make it more convenient for potential witnesses to go to City Hall after they’re done working for the day.<\/p>\n

But no one would be very surprised if few — or no — members of the public show up to testify on the bill — which would also hike the pay of the five borough presidents, five district attorneys, the public advocate, the controller and the mayor.<\/p>\n

“I’ll stay all night if there are people who want to testify,” said committee Chairman Simcha Felder (D-Brooklyn). “But that’s not going to happen.”<\/p>\n

He said that while many taxpayers might object to the Council voting itself a raise — from $90,000 to $112,500 — “to actually have them come [to City Hall and testify] is another story.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today is as good a time as any to bury the fact that you’re voting yourself a 25 percent pay raise — retroactive to last week: Now that Election Day is over, the 51 members of the City Council will turn to some unfinished business. Like holding a public hearing today on a bill to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thats_an_outrage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}