# Erie County Legislature votes 71k in raises for sewer executives **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [July 16, 2006, 8:06pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/erie-county-legislature-votes-71k-in-raises-for-sewer-executives/14682 "2006-07-16T20:06:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 29
**Author:** ![Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/blue_eyed_devil/32/7292_2.png) [@Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Blue_Eyed_Devil)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2006, 1:08pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/erie-county-legislature-votes-71k-in-raises-for-sewer-executives/14682/29 "2006-07-17T13:08:06Z")
> [@JoesTypeS](#): > > So? Everyone in my company has full benefits, cell phones, gas cards… > > Yeah the county isn’t in a posistion to be giving out raises, I agree with you. However, there’s no data presented that shows how long they’ve worked there, what their starting salary was, etc… etc… > > There’s no data in that article about the cost of firing them and replacing them, etc… etc… > > At face value this looks like shitty politics & policy. It may not be. It certainly doesn’t appear to be influenced by unions though… The article does mention that some of them have received substantial raises in recent years… **Erie** **County** Comptroller Mark Poloncarz is challenging the pay hikes saying 4 of the 9 were already given significant **raises** last year. He even says the resolution granting them is illegal because the legislature gave up its authority to say no to **raises**. --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/erie-county-legislature-votes-71k-in-raises-for-sewer-executives/14682)._