{"id":1780,"date":"2006-11-16T09:58:31","date_gmt":"2006-11-16T17:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/11\/twenty-five_percent_retroactive_ballsy.html"},"modified":"2008-01-24T15:39:32","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T20:39:32","slug":"twentyfive_perc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/11\/twentyfive_perc.html","title":{"rendered":"Twenty-Five Percent, Retroactive . . . Ballsy!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Where in the world does a legislative body vote to increase its own pay? New York City<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Contending they work hard 24\/7 and deserve more money, City Council members gave themselves a $22,500 pay raise yesterday — bringing their base salary to $112,500 a year.<\/p>\n

“I have never seen a legislative body which works harder than the New York City Council,” said Speaker Christine Quinn (D-Manhattan) as the bill passed 41 to 5.<\/p>\n

The raises, recommended by a mayoral commission, have Mayor Bloomberg’s approval. The bill also provides fat raises for the mayor, controller, public advocate, borough presidents and district attorneys.<\/p>\n

The raises will be retroactive to Nov. 1. The annual cumulative cost will be $1.5 million.<\/p>\n

Good-government groups had urged tying the raises to reforms, such as eliminating committee stipends, known as lulus, that add $4,000 to $28,500 to Council members’ base pay.<\/p>\n

The posts are also technically part-time, with 13 of the 51 members now earning outside income.<\/p>\n

. . .<\/p>\n

With the raise, New York’s 51 Council members will be the second-highest paid in the country – surpassed only by the $150,695 salary of Los Angeles’ 15 council members.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Where in the world does a legislative body vote to increase its own pay? New York City: Contending they work hard 24\/7 and deserve more money, City Council members gave themselves a $22,500 pay raise yesterday — bringing their base salary to $112,500 a year. “I have never seen a legislative body which works harder […]<\/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-1780","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\/1780","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=1780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}