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Port Authority employees' salaries will be posted online
Published: Thursday, December 08, 2011, 5:49 PM Updated: Thursday, December 08, 2011, 7:41 PM
David Samson, chairman of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, announced the Port Authority's salaries will be available online starting Friday. Port Authority Chairman David Samson announced the move this afternoon as a step toward his goal of maximizing transparency at the agency, just moments after the agency had adopted a $7.1 billion 2012 budget, down about 1 percent from 2011.
Samson said the pay posted online will include base salaries, overtime, longevity payments, unused sick or vacation days, and all other payments to full and part-time employees.
A report in The Record of Bergen County last month found that some longtime Port Authority executives made up to $70,000 more annually than the salary figures that had been released to the public.
Should the salaries of all Port Authority workers be posted online?
Also in the name of transparency, Port Authority Executive Director Patrick Foye said his office would provide quarterly reports on overtime spending to the agency’s Board of Commissioners and to the New York State Comptroller. Earlier this year, Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli issued a report charging the Port Authority wastes millions of dollars a year on overtime by failing to adequately staff its police and PATH operations.
“What you can measure, you can manage,” Foye said.
During the public portion of the meeting, the agency was harshly criticized for a lack openness by Margaret Donovan of the Twin Towers Alliance, a group that seeks to rebuild the original World Trade Center.
“Your lack of transparency is the root of all your troubles,” said Donovan told board members.
But Samson later said this afternoon’s reforms would not be the last.
“Stay tuned,” he advised reporters. “More to come.”
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