"State orders BRA official to repay illegal earnings" by Michael Levenson, Globe Staff | May 27, 2009
A Boston Redevelopment Authority official who earned $116,000 last year while also collecting a pension from the city of Lynn must now repay the authority more than $150,000 for violating a state law restricting post-retirement income from public sector jobs, according to state officials.
I don't think "earned" is the right word. More like stole!
Related: A Model Looting
If the authority takes no action, the city of Lynn could demand that Jansi Chandler, a top economic development official, repay some of the more than $300,000 she has earned over the last decade from her annual pension, which last year was $35,619.60.
I don't think "earned" is the right word.
And I could live of that pension for years!!!
She's already got a job and I'm draining mine as I type!!!
The authority says it has not decided whether it will demand the wages back from Chandler, whose title is managing deputy director of economic development for the Economic Development and Industrial Corporation of Boston,a division of the BRA....
Yeah, LEGAL LOOTING by the LEGISLATURE is O.K.!
Chandler said that because the Economic Development and Industrial Corporation does not pay into the public pension system, she had assumed she was not subject to the state law that restricts the hours and earnings of pensioners who continue to work in the public sector....
WTF? Screw here excuses!
We NEED JOBS and YOU ARE DOUBLE-DIPPING while your FAT FANNY DISPLACES SOMEONE ELSE?
And SHE AIN'T the ONLY ONE!!!
Joseph E. Connarton, executive director of the Public Employee Retirement Administration Commission, said the agency expects a resolution later this week in the case of a former acting director of the Redevelopment Authority, Paul L. McCann, who has been under investigation since the Globe reported last month that he was collecting a $97,000-a-year pension while he also earned $162,000 last year from the agency under contract....
I don't think EARNED is the right word!
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They are stealing from both your pockets, too:
"Ex-library trustee's tenure defended" by Sean P. Murphy, Globe Staff | May 27, 2009
LYNN - An attorney for a former city library board member with a spotty attendance record argued yesterday that his client had no obligation to attend board meetings in order to earn pension credit.
Pfft!
The attorney made the argument to the Lynn retirement board, which is attempting to rescind the pension of 60-year-old Linda Bassett of Marblehead, and recover about $20,000 in payments she has received....
Bassett and her husband, Timothy, chairman and executive director of the Essex Regional Retirement Board, were the subjects of a Globe report in April about their ability to use insider connections and special legislation to reap extraordinary pension benefits.
Please see: Taking Care of Timmy Bassett
Lynn library meeting minutes indicate that Linda Bassett spent only about 18 hours at library board meetings in her six years on the board. If she lives to age 83, as actuarial charts predict, those six years will bring her $165,000 in pension benefits. That would be more than $9,100 for every hour she devoted to library meetings....
That's ONE HELL of a RATE for DOING NOTHING, 'eh, TAXPAYERS?!!!
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Also consider:
"I'm double dipping and I'm happy to be doing it," said Ralph Olsen, 62, who is finishing up his second year as principal of Durfee High School in Fall River and plans to return next school year. Olsen, who retired as Framingham High School principal in 2004, earns $87,311 a year in pension income and makes $140,000 a year in his new position....
This while teachers are being laid off and budgets cut.
I got a solution for the whole lot of ya:
"Boston public schools to send out 25 teacher layoff notices this week" by James Vaznis, Globe Staff | May 27, 2009
The Boston public schools system is issuing layoff notices to 25 teachers this week - far fewer than the hundreds of teachers predicted to lose their jobs earlier this year because of the budget crunch. The layoffs come a month after approximately 105 provisional teachers were told that they would not be able to return next year because of budget constraints....
Yeah, it's not as many as we told you so it's all good!!!
That's one of the oldest tricks in the book: exaggerate a crisis, and then claim we came through it grand -- even as the boat still sinks.
Richard Stutman, the teachers union president, questioned the need to let get go of any teachers or provisional teachers given that the district is hiring between 100 and 200 teachers next fall.
WTF?
While the hirings are occurring in areas where the affected teachers are not certified, Stutman said the teachers could be retrained and seek appropriate certification. "If the school department and the mayor are true with what they said - 'This is about people and not jobs' - they will give our teachers top preference," Stutman said. "They are trained and vetted. It makes sense socially and financially to place them in the positions."
Also see: Boston Globe Bashes Boston Teachers
But Dot Joyce, a spokeswoman for Mayor Thomas M. Menino, said the city has a responsibility to make sure teachers have certification in the subjects they are teaching, and the city should not lower that standard because of tight budgets.
When school officials originally released their proposed budget in February, they called for cutting more than 400 teaching positions in the next school year. The number of classroom aides who will be laid off was not available.
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