Quoted from GrahamBonnet

Whats the matter, don't you trust the local police?

Quoted from DemocraticVoiceOfReason

If you want to fight ---  bend over , stick yourhead up your a** and fight for air   -- i am through responding
to you

Quoted from 147

They haven't stopped laughing yet.

Quoted from DemocraticVoiceOfReason

  -- i am through responding
to you

Quoted from DemocraticVoiceOfReason

As for PatZ's threats .. the matter was turned over to the state police .. who will be monitoring the matter.

Quoted from PatZ

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA (ROFL) HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA (RSMLMAO) HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

Ron, you've made my day! Watch out marshmello man! Those coals are really turning red now!

Quoted from mikechristine1

Oooooohhh    I'm going to go to the state police because DV is threatening me !!!!!!!!!!!!   Ooooooh.   I'm SOOOOOOOOOOO   scared !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Maybe what is better is to pass some of his posts on to his pastor and fellow congregation.  

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SCHENECTADY -- Twenty city employees, most of them firefighters, increased their base salaries by more than $30,000 in the three years before they retired, costing the cash-strapped city $784,281 since 2007, according to an analysis of data provided by the state comptroller's office.

A spotlight first shone on Schenectady pensions when the public learned last month that Fire Chief Robert Farstad was granted the opportunity to make $126,000 in overtime to compensate him for being left out of a more lucrative state pension system.

Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, the governor-elect, also has been working on a statewide report that details how such practices, called pension padding, are costing state taxpayers millions of dollars a year.

The state comptroller's office provided a list to the Times Union of 91 Schenectady city workers who retired between January 2007 and June 2010. Most employees' salaries on the list did not drastically change in the years leading up to their exits. But 20 saw their pay increase by over $30,000 in their last three years, a period that determines most government workers' pensions for the rest of their lives. The increases ranged from $30,601 to $57,928.

The salaries provided by the state were the pay the city reported for the employees according to the state's fiscal year, April 1 to March 30. While such pay can include various forms of compensation, including holiday pay and perks for longevity and specialized work, much of it is often made up of a person's base salary and overtime.

Pension padding isn't illegal and is done in many municipalities across the state. Union contracts often specify that the most senior members, those nearer retirement, be offered overtime first.

"That's their right," said Kathy Finch, Schenectady's personnel and benefits administrator. "These are the legal avenues through their contracts that grant them the ability to do this."

The recent controversy surrounding Farstad's compensation is different than that of the 20 retiring employees on the list because Farstad is an administrator who would normally not receive overtime. Schenectady Mayor Brian U. Stratton said he provided the soon-to-retire chief the opportunity to earn overtime for 2010 and 2011 because the City Council wouldn't move Farstad into the enhanced retirement system that covers other firefighters. Farstad's overtime money for next year has now been taken away.

Quoted from 795

hm

none of the roterdam city council members get pensions right ? ? ?

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Quoted from DemocraticVoiceOfReason

the fact is that pension padding is not just something that has or is happening in the city ... it has been
happening in every municipality, county, and even at the state and federal levels  --- and BOTH Republican
and Democratic administrations have participated in the practice

having said that ... it is a practice that MUST be stopped wherever it is occurring