Complete copies of hundreds of local government and school district labor union contracts were added today to SeeThroughNY, the Empire Center’s transparency website.
26 in Central New York, including teacher contracts in Onondaga County and fire contracts in Oswego County;
33 in the Finger Lakes, including fire contracts in Monroe County and teacher contracts in Genesee County;
63 on Long Island, including 11 teacher contracts in Nassau County and 12 in Suffolk County;
71 in the Mid-Hudson region, including police contracts in Westchester County;
30 in the Mohawk Valley, including three superintendent contracts in Oneida County and four in Herkimer County;
28 in the North Country, including superintendent and teacher contracts for Clinton County;
34 in the Southern Tier, including police contracts for Tompkins County and fire contracts for Broome County; and
46 in Western New York, including the Buffalo city schools’ first contract with its teachers union in 12 years.
More than 6,700 current and expired public-sector union and school superintendent employment contracts are now searchable on SeeThroughNY’s contract database, the most comprehensive in the state.
The Empire Center, based in Albany, is an independent, non-partisan, not-for-profit think tank dedicated to promoting policies to make New York a better place to live, work and do business.
The data, covering all school districts outside NYC, show 75,280 school district employees were paid at least $100,000 last year, compared to 58,631 in 2017-18. Read More
Payroll data detailing $6 billion in annual pay for more than 86,000 public employees at 383 agencies including the Thruway Authority, New York City Health + Hospitals and the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) were added today to SeeThroughNY, the Empire Center’s government transparency website. Read More
New York state lawmakers and Governor Hochul since January have steered nearly $200 million in borrowed state funds outside the regular budget process to hundreds of pet projects, according to new data posted on SeeThroughNY, the Empire Center’s government transparency website. Read More
The 10 highest-paid employees of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANYNJ) last year were police officers who collected more than $370,000 each, according to data posted today on SeeThroughNY, the Empire Center’s government transparency website. Read More
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School districts across the state last year used lower-turnout special elections to win voter approval for nearly $2 billion in construction projects and other major purchases instead of presenting them alongside their budget pr Read More
State regulators should drop plans to mandate a $10.18 "dispensing fee" for each prescription filled by a pharmacy, the Empire Center's Bill Hammond said in comments submitted Monday to the Department of Financial Services.
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