Town of Huntington Supervisor Frank Petrone is among the highest paid town supervisors on Long Island, according to a recent article from Newsday.
With an annual salary of $158,543 in 2011, he earned roughly 77 cents per resident, says the article, in comparison to Hempstead Supervisor Kate Murray, who made $150,742 or 20 cents per person. Then there's Shelter Island Supervisor James Dougherty, who is paid $30.53 per resident.
Petrone, a full time employee, received a $4,360 pay raise with the 2013 budget in September. The town board members, who work part-time, took a pay freeze.
Are you surprised at Petrone's annual salary? Do you think he should have given himself a raise? Tell us in the comments.
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The biggest problem with his being able to vote himself a raise, is that right now he is looking towards retirement and a nice pension. Since he either may not run again or he knows he would be voted out of office should he run again, he is now bumping up his income for a greater final average salary figure, used to calculate his pension. THAT'S what this is all about people! BTW - police and school admins or teachers cannot give themselves a raise. No comparison.
I cannot speak for all of the TOH but I can tell you I walk 2+miles/day. I see streets that were clear of debris and no visible downed trees in the front of the property have large mounds of branches and huge tree stumps back on the street. How do you think that the debris got back there??? Perhaps contractors that were to lazy/unscrupulous to complete the job???
You are comparing apples to oranges. You need to factor in cost of living... LI is notoriously high. All politics start locally.....this salary does not sound so unreasonable. Patch, this is a frivolous question in the 1st place (as many of your questions are). The ability to give oneself a raise does merit debate tho. I am always puzzled as to why no one ever mentions the obscene salaries paid to CEO's, sports and film/entertainment/media persons......
Mayorka proposed a cut in salary to only one full time elected official and did not look to impact his fellow Republican officials... shameful. Petrone wisely suggested that a proposal that impacts salary of elected officials be coupled with meaningful ethics legislation to ensure that conflicts of interest either are not already present or do not occur with elected officials. Particularly those that do business in the Town. Get the facts and come to a reasonable conclusion. After all, I am Free 2B... me. . . . . . .
Are you running for a political position in this town down the road, like Town Super ???
We must also examine the extravagant salaries and overtime paid to other Town employees. Newsday published an article this week detailing the earnings of all Town employees in the year 2011. My jaw dropped. For example, an auto mechanic has a base salary of 75k and with OT actually earned 126k in 2011. Maybe he has a PhD? A tree trimmer whose base is 43k earned 102k in 2011. Yes, there was Irene. With Sandy, he'll probably earn 150k in 2012. Years and years of study and student loans required to qualify for that job. If you want to read (and weep) more, check out: http://data.newsday.com/long-island/data/town-city/2011-payroll/ Do-able suggestions, anyone?
And, don't forget, we have to add on fabulous benefits plus early retirements, generous pensions and great medical benefits for life for employees and spouses.
Please don't group all Town employees together in this category of extravagant salaries with overtime because it is not representative of all Town employees.
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Thank you for pointing out that not all Town employees are overpaid or eligible for enormous overtime pay. My guess is that the vast majority of these are women and the ones with the big money earnings are men. Am I wrong?
Unfortunately your comments regarding PHD's/etc smack of snobbery tho. Our employees live on LI with a very high cost of living.... what would be your answer privatization?? Look at the privatized prison system...... PS chack out town of hempstead datum.
. Last I checked, the majority of Huntington hired the supervisor, and, in November, you may choose to hire someone else... or not. . . As for me... I am Free 2B... me. . . .