What can you expect from a President who is unfamiliar with Christian calendar let alone NY Const. Art 1, Sec. 3.
Also, Carpenter already has hired former Suffolk Off-Track Betting Corp. president Mea Knapp, 67, of Northport, as her town chief of staff, at a salary of $87,500 a year. Knapp retired in 2007 and also earns a state pension of $47,587 a year.
Republican Angie Carpenter, who is
resigning as Suffolk County treasurer to become the appointed Islip Town
supervisor at a salary of $103,000 a year, has filed for her state
pension, which she expects will net her another $77,000 annually.
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Republican
Angie Carpenter, who is resigning as Suffolk County treasurer to become
the appointed Islip supervisor at a salary of $103,000 a year, has
filed for a state pension that she expects will net her another $77,000
annually.
Carpenter, 71, who has 22 years in the state pension system, is legally permitted to double-dip and collect both salary and pension because she is over age 65. Most state and local municipal workers younger than 65 are limited to $30,000 a year if they return to the public payroll.
The pension and town salary will not match Carpenter's current $192,181 annual salary as treasurer. But that job will no longer exist in 2018, when the treasurer's office merges with the county comptroller's office.
SIGN UPGet weekly community newsletters When first named supervisor last month, Carpenter said she was undecided about whether to take the pension and salary.
She said Tuesday that, "I had to do it to protect my family. If anything happens to me, I have to make sure my husband is taken care of. It was a decision I had to make."
Carpenter noted that her decision to take her pension frees the town of the cost of contributing to the retirement system -- an amount that equals 18 percent of her supervisor salary. She added that she also qualifies for Medicare so there will be no town health insurance costs.
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Richard Schaffer, Suffolk Democratic chairman, declined to comment.
Carpenter joins GOP County Clerk Judith Pascale, who filed papers for her pension before starting her new term in January, and former Comptroller Joseph Sawicki, a Republican who filed at the beginning of the year.
Sawicki is under consideration by the administration of Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone to replace Carpenter as treasurer, according to political sources. Bellone aides say they have not made a selection but expect to name a successor by the next meeting of the county legislature on Tuesday, through an emergency resolution.
Whoever is appointed treasurer will have to run for election in November for the two years left on Carpenter's term.
Also, Carpenter already has hired former Suffolk Off-Track Betting Corp. president Mea Knapp, 67, of Northport, as her town chief of staff, at a salary of $87,500 a year. Knapp retired in 2007 and also earns a state pension of $47,587 a year.
Carpenter, 71, who has 22 years in the state pension system, is legally permitted to double-dip and collect both salary and pension because she is over age 65. Most state and local municipal workers younger than 65 are limited to $30,000 a year if they return to the public payroll.
The pension and town salary will not match Carpenter's current $192,181 annual salary as treasurer. But that job will no longer exist in 2018, when the treasurer's office merges with the county comptroller's office.
SIGN UPGet weekly community newsletters When first named supervisor last month, Carpenter said she was undecided about whether to take the pension and salary.
She said Tuesday that, "I had to do it to protect my family. If anything happens to me, I have to make sure my husband is taken care of. It was a decision I had to make."
Carpenter noted that her decision to take her pension frees the town of the cost of contributing to the retirement system -- an amount that equals 18 percent of her supervisor salary. She added that she also qualifies for Medicare so there will be no town health insurance costs.
Carpenter joins GOP County Clerk Judith Pascale, who filed papers for her pension before starting her new term in January, and former Comptroller Joseph Sawicki, a Republican who filed at the beginning of the year.
Sawicki is under consideration by the administration of Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone to replace Carpenter as treasurer, according to political sources. Bellone aides say they have not made a selection but expect to name a successor by the next meeting of the county legislature on Tuesday, through an emergency resolution.
Whoever is appointed treasurer will have to run for election in November for the two years left on Carpenter's term.
Also, Carpenter already has hired former Suffolk Off-Track Betting Corp. president Mea Knapp, 67, of Northport, as her town chief of staff, at a salary of $87,500 a year. Knapp retired in 2007 and also earns a state pension of $47,587 a year.
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Stop scratching on holidays
Published: June 1, 2012
Off Track Betting in New York State has been racing into a crisis called shrinking revenue. Some people have spitballed a solution: Don’t close on holidays.
New York State Racing Law bars racing on Christmas, Easter and Palm Sunday, and the state has ruled OTBs can’t handle action on those days, even though they could easily broadcast races from out of state.
“You should be able to bet whenever you want,” said Jackson Leeds, a Nassau OTB employee who makes an occasional bet. He added some irrefutable logic: “How is the business going to make money if you’re not open to take people’s bets?”
Elias Tsekerides, president of the Federation of Hellenic Societies of Greater New York, said OTB is open on Greek Orthodox Easter and Palm Sunday.
“I don’t want discrimination,” Tsekerides said. “They close for the Catholics, but open for the Greek Orthodox? It’s either open for all or not open.”
OTB officials have said they lose millions by closing on Palm Sunday alone, with tracks such as Gulfstream, Santa Anita, Turf Paradise and Hawthorne running.
One option: OTBs could just stay open and face the consequences. New York City OTB did just that back in 2003. The handle was about $1.5 million – and OTB was fined $5,000.
Easy money.
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