The Allegany County District Attorney is gonna get a raise...but county lawmakers on Monday will almost assuredly passed a resolution demanding the state pay for this and future pay hikes. Here's the resolution:
URGING PASSAGE OF SENATE BILL S.519 AND ASSEMBLY BILL A.751 THAT WOULD
FULLY REIMBURSE COUNTIES FOR DISTRICT ATTORNEY SALARY INCREASES SET BY THE
STATE
Offered by: Ways &
Means Committee
WHEREAS, on December 24, 2015, New York State Commission on Legislative,
Judicial, and Executive Compensation voted to recommend increasing all state
judge salaries in 2016 and 2018, and
WHEREAS, this salary increase recommendation occurred well after all counties
set their 2016 budgets in law, and
WHEREAS, the recommended increase placed Supreme Court Judges’ salaries at
$193,000 in 2016 and $203,000 in 2018 and placed County Court Judges at 95
percent of a Supreme Court Justice’s salary, and
WHEREAS, on April 1, 2016, the State approved the Commission’s
recommendation, and
WHEREAS, State Judicial Law 183-a links judicial salaries with County
District Attorneys’ salaries to be equal or higher than either the County Court
Judge or Supreme Court Judge in a county, depending on full time or part-time
status, and
WHEREAS, for over 50 years, the State has funded all salary increases that
they imposed on the counties, and
WHEREAS, District Attorneys are entitled to the compensation they are owed
pursuant to state law for fulfilling the state constitutional and statutory
duties related to the enforcement of the state penal law, and
WHEREAS, for many counties this salary increase represents approximately
one-third of their total allowable property tax growth for all government
operations in 2017, now, therefore, be it
RESOLVED:
1.
That the Allegany County Board of
Legislators hereby calls on the State lawmakers to keep their promise, by
enacting Senate Bill S.519 and Assembly Bill A.751 into law to provide State
Aid to pay for the mandated increases to the District Attorney’s salary.
