Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone delivered a stern defense this week of newly hired police commissioner Edward Webber after reports that the top cop is set to make more than $321,000 a year between his pension and new salary.
Bellone defended Webber's double dipping by pointing to the county's $2 million in police overtime savings this year and that fact that what the commissioner is doing is perfectly legal, according to a CBS report.
Bellone also intends to give county's legislature another opportunity to approve Webber in the post, a sign he said the will prove the confidence county lawmakers have in commissioner.
Webber, who is 65 years old, will pull in a pension near $158,000, Newsday reported, on top of his commissioner's salary of $162,760 a year.
IDA Benefits for British Firm
The Suffolk County Industrial Agency will dish out tax incentives to a British cloud computing firm that plans to expand and hire at its Huntington facility.
As part of the IDA's BOOST program, the county will support VLI North America, which plans to invest more than $100,000 in upgrades to its Long Island location and will hire another 20 workers. The BOOST program focuses on smaller incentive programs to help smaller firms instead of traditional IDA packages in the past meant to support large-scale employers.
VLI will receive $38,000 in property tax abatements and $10,500 in sales tax exemptions on equipment.
IDA Gets New Website
Bellone this week also announced a new website for the IDA that he hopes will give businesses more access to the county's incentive options.
"We need to make sure our pro-economic development message is being delivered to the business community,” Bellone said in a statement. “Retaining our jobs and helping to create new ones is of the highest priority and this new website serves an avenue for local companies to learn about the IDA's incentives and read about the success stories.”
"The last official act of any Government is to loot the Treasury". -George Washington
In this time of economic crisis they should be ASHAMED of themselves and then double dipping as well. The people of Suffolk County are responsible for this by not voting these greedy politicians out of office and demanding that these outrageous salaries be reduced by HALF.
You might want to learn something about the history of unions and why they are still needed before you revile them and demand that they be outlawed. Unions have played an extremely important role in the history of America and those that "have" would like to see them gone to expand their bottom lines and turn the American workers into the slave workers of China. YOU sir are part of the PROBLEM.
CHARLESTON, W.Va.--Underground coal mines that are unionized have significantly fewer traumatic injuries and fatalities per miner than nonunion mines, a federally backed study by a Stanford Law School professor concludes. Representatives from the United Mine Workers of America, which has seen its ranks gradually wane in the face of mine companies' efforts to shake unionization, seized on the study Wednesday. They said it was proof of their mission. The comments also come in the wake of a report released last week on the Upper Big Branch mine disaster that concluded the company-backed safety measures at the non-union mine owned by Massey Energy Co. were inadequate. In the past two decades, there have been 18-33 percent fewer traumatic injuries per miner in union mines than nonunion mines and 27-68 percent fewer fatalities per miner, according to a draft of the study sponsored by the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health. http://www.dailymail.com/News/201105251195
http://www.remappingdebate.org/article/tale-two-systems?page=0,0 Interesting quotes: "When asked why German firms operate so differently with respect to labor in different countries, Claude Barfield, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute where he studies international trade and globalization, told Remapping Debate that they do so, in part, “because they can get away with it so far.” Interesting article. The problem with the US auto corps is union workers didn't get paid as much and the companies still needed a bailout. I'd like to know if Germany exports more cars than the US.
Keep passing those budgets..silly people.
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2012/10/05/exclusive-shocking-school-tax-hikes-hit-nassau-county/