Ten retired Long Island teachers are getting $250K+ in retirement pay and 100 get more than $157K. L.I. cops are well paid also, Newsday in 2014 listing total pay of $160,977 for Chief Edward Ecker of East Hampton down to total pay of $98,792 for officer Michael Selz, 49th on the list.
The retirement pay of teachers and administrators was reported by SeeThroughNY, seethroughny.net a public advocacy website operated by Empire Center.
James Feltman |
Only the two highest-paid retired teachers in New Jersey would even make the top 50 list of the L.I. teachers, said the website.
No. 1 on L.I. is James Feltman, who retired in 2010 as superintendent of the Commack School District. His pension is $326,214. His base pay in 2010 was $363K but he received $314K for 24 years of unused sick pay for total of $657K. Feltman was profiled in a story titled “Five Outrageous Supt. Salaries” on teachingmonster.com.
Three others receive $300K+ and ten receive more than $250K+.
In Westhampton Beach, where we reside most of the year, Police Chief Ray Dean retired in 2014 with a package that included $403,714 for 513 unused sick, vacation and personal days. His last pay was $226,236 including extras and he is also to receive $142K annual in pension. The New York Post called the package “a huge criminal payout.”
Public Officials Should Be Responsive
Our interest in this is that officials of all types who are on the public pad should be responsive to the needs of citizens including the need for information.
As a resident of Westhampton Beach for most of the year, we find that school, police, village and library officials are not.
Mayor Maria Moore of WHB has refused requests for an interview for more than a year and will not even talk to us on the telephone. Attempts to address her at the monthly WHB meetings in the village hall are shut down by WHB lawyers after five minutes because we are not on the “agenda.” The trustees refuse to put us on the agenda.
We can’t interest officials at the high school, middle school or grade school on the dangers presented by electromagnetic radiation. There’s no doubt that use of cellphones and computers, especially by children, needs to undergo numerous changes. Pressing cellphones to the ear, carrying them in a pocket, and using cordless phones instead of landlines are among practices that must be stopped.
Wi-Fi should no longer be allowed in libraries and other public places including classrooms. Attempts to document the reasons for such advice are blocked by the library, schools and WHB elected officials.
Public officials on Long Island are well paid and even over-paid and should be responsive to public health concerns.
List of top 50 L.I. recipients of the New York Teacher Retirement System as tabulated by Empire Center:
- Feltman, James A, Commack Union Free Schools: $326,214
- Karnilow, Sheldon, Half Hollow Hills Central Schools: $322,650
- Hankin, Carole, Syosset Central Schools: $320,152
- Hunderfund, James H, Commack Union Free Schools: $317,289
- Shea, Thomas C, South Huntington Union Free Schools: $293,070
- Brande, Richard T, Brookhaven-Comsewogue Union Free Schools: $291,713
- Saffer, Shelley, Brookhaven-Comsewogue Union Free Schools: $289,269
- Brown, Herb R, Oceanside Union Free Schools: $285,200
- Friedman, Ronald L, Great Neck Public Schools: $267,672
- Sulc, Charles V, Massapequa Public Schools: $254,420
- Licopoli, Lorenzo, Mineola Union Free Schools: $240,921
- Campo, Leon J, East Meadow Union Free Schools: $233,785
- Richman, John A, Roslyn Public Schools: $231,645
- Brosnan, William J, Jr, Northport-East Northport Union Free Schools: $229,966
- Melucci, Ranier W, Merrick Union Free Schools: $226,542
- Meierdiercks, Warren A, Sewanhaka Central Schools: $222,945
- Greenberg, Robert, Long Beach City School District: $218,935
- Bonasera, Anthony J, Mount Sinai Union Free Schools: $216,817
- Mc Donald, William J, Floral Park-Bellerose Union Free Schools: $216,486
- Hirt, Richard I, Locust Valley Central Schools: $215,868
- Goldstein, George A, Sewanhaka Central Schools: $214,753
- Sirois, Herman A, Levittown Union Free Schools: $214,224
- Nathan, Richard B, Lindenhurst Public Schools: $211,585
- Finello, John J, Huntington Union Free Schools, SUNY at Stony Brook: $207,721
- Brooks, Martin G, Plainview-Old Bethpage Central Schools: $206,322
- Bolton, William R, Copiague Union Free Schools: $205,081
- Lederer, Neil, Lindenhurst Public Schools: $204,953
- Weiss, Kathy G, Baldwin Union Free Schools: $198,534
- Ehmann, Edward L, Smithtown Central Schools: $197,352
- Boyd-Bright, Maureen K, Hicksville Public Schools: $196,491
- Van Eyk, Jonathan P, Mount Sinai Union Free Schools: $196,131
- Caramore, Thomas J, Bellmore-Merrick Central Schools: $195,247
- Cronin, George T, Central Islip Union Free Schools: $194,389
- Smith, Lois M, Jericho Union Free Schools: $192,961
- Savaglio, Ernest G, Jr, Jericho Union Free Schools: $191,480
- Black, Leslie A, Brentwood Union Free Schools: $191,384
- Colvin, Joan L, Jericho Union Free Schools: $190,554
- Governale, Joseph R, Central Islip Union Free Schools: $190,355
- Mensch, Michael J, Suffolk 2 BOCES: $189,842
- Marsh, Richard S, Bethpage Union Free Schools: $189,178
- Pereira, Lawrence F, Massapequa Public Schools: $188,267
- Bonuso, Carl A, Wantagh Union Free Schools: $187,630
- Eisenberg, Carol D, West Hempstead Union Free Schools: $187,430
- Lison, Elizabeth J, Valley Stream #13 Union Free Schools: $187,283
- Bixhorn, Gary D, Eastern Suffolk 1 BOCES: $184,090
- Bernstein, Marc F, Valley Stream Central High School: $183,964
- Frontario, Louis S, Oceanside Union Free Schools: $183,304
- McDermott, Marylou, Northport-East Northport Union Free Schools: $182,496
- Segerdahl, Richard N, Island Trees Union Free Schools: $181,922
- Aloise, Robert W, North Babylon Union Free Schools: $181,592
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