{"id":613,"date":"2006-01-18T10:07:42","date_gmt":"2006-01-18T18:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/01\/im_not_sure_how_payments_in_lieu_of_itemized_expenditures_becomes_lulu_but_i_like_it.html"},"modified":"2006-01-18T10:07:42","modified_gmt":"2006-01-18T18:07:42","slug":"im_not_sure_how","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/01\/im_not_sure_how.html","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m Not Sure How &#8220;Payments In Lieu Of Itemized Expenditures&#8221; Becomes &#8220;Lulu&#8221; But I Like It!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York City Council Committee chairmanships bring <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/boroughs\/story\/383586p-325630c.html\">cash payments that are known by the lyrical nickname &#8220;lulu&#8221;<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The much-desired &#8220;lulu&#8221; will make a revealing visit to the City Council today.<\/p>\n<p>Lulu is the nickname for the stipends Council members receive for chairing the Council&#8217;s numerous committees or holding leadership posts. It&#8217;s short for payments in lieu of itemized expenditures.<\/p>\n<p>Lulus add from $4,000 to $29,500 to the $90,000 annual salaries of the 51 Council members.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York City Council Committee chairmanships bring cash payments that are known by the lyrical nickname &#8220;lulu&#8221;: The much-desired &#8220;lulu&#8221; will make a revealing visit to the City Council today. Lulu is the nickname for the stipends Council members receive for chairing the Council&#8217;s numerous committees or holding leadership posts. It&#8217;s short for payments in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-need_to_know"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613","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=613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}