Despite belt-tightening, Schenectady police haul in overtime
FacebookTwitterEmail
The city of Schenectady tried to curb overtime spending during the coronavirus pandemic last year but a number of police officers were able to more than double their salary through overtime pay. (John Carl D Annibale / Times Union)John Carl D Annibale
SCHENECTADY City police officers dominated the list of highest paid city employees last year by using overtime pay to, in some cases, to more than double their annual salaries.
The city s reliance on overtime to staff public safety shifts faced pressure earlier this year when Mayor Gary McCarthy urged city leaders find ways to cut overtime to stem fiscal problems caused by the coronavirus shutdown and the fear it would cause a drop in sales tax payments as well as revenue from Rivers Casino & Resort.
and once it did not move the needle, do you know who theyth blamed, they blamed trump supporters. listen to this language. the word colt has been popping up more and more they could back to two weeks ago they talked about his claim that trump supporters are in a cold and last weekend support for trump seems increasingly cold tissue in the washington post, john weaver said the gop is on a party in a traditional sense it s a colt. cnn says you have to impeach a president and the public says not really. they said okay then you re a colt. what is happened, it does not astound me when have donald trump junior, for his dad, it does not astound me when mark e -es out for his dad. what astounds me when you have ron johnson, he made his money in plastics from wisconsin. and he s going to bat with ukraine thing. when you have senator from south dakota, you never knew but now i
president obama plans to lay a wreath at the tomb of the unknowns to mark e memorial day. it s among many ceremonies honoring our nation s fallen hero heroes. hundreds will join service members to visit the air and space museum. thank you so much. up next on new day, we are learning more about the killer in california from his hate-filled manifesto. the questions are, could action have been taken sooner? we re going to talk with an expert, coming up.
if you walk up to the average american out there and say, what is obamacare? you can t define it. i think if you talk to the average legislator, law maker, they can t define it. gretchen: they haven t probably read the bill yet. remember that? let s talk about this cause it got you fired up earlier in our show. the department of education is going to eliminate on some of their forms theds mother and father because they believe that it could be insulting to people who live in different kinds of family units together. so what did you think about that? ed tweeted this, let s start the cs police, common sense, pc is way out of control. steve: meanwhile, mark e mailed, we are not having a domestic dispute because my wife says she s number one and i disagree. i have say i m number one. gretchen: we said that was going to happen. if you re parent number one or two. brian: now they re not speaking to each other. steve: that way they can watch our show for the next hour and 52 minute