The legislative pay raise is the second in a planned series of three that began Jan. 1, when annual salaries jumped from $79,500 to $110,000.
The third planned pay hike, to $130,000 a year, would take effect in 2021.
TIME IS RUNNING OUT: Governor Andrew Cuomo is getting tough as he tries to push through his $178.8 billion budget proposal — by threatening to block planned pay raises for #Yonkers legislators if they don’t get the job done by April 1st.
ALBANY: Negotiations have broke down Saturday, and Yonkers lawmakers Shelley Mayer and Nader J. Sayegh, who have been pushing for more school funding fear that Andrew Cuomo won’t sign the budget by an April 1 deadline if he doesn’t get his way
That would prevent Yonkers’ state senators and assembly members from getting a $10,000-a-year salary increase — to $120,000 annually — that’s tied to on-time adoption of the state’s spending plan.
Southwest-Side Assemblyman J Gary Pretlow, who has been more focused on online gambling than on Yonkers Schools, has accused Governor Andrew Cuomo of using the raises as leverage to get his version of the budget passed.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s proposed budget projects the state will collect $168.2 billion in taxes and license fees, while Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins‘s initially projected nearly $1 billion more — meaning that she and the other legislators could spend more than #Cuomo wants to spend.
The matter has been handed off to state Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli to come up with a figure to break the impasse.
Governor Andrew Cuomo‘s office released a statement that said in part,”To pass a budget, the numbers have to add up and the legislature has to be fiscally responsible.”