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    Albany rejects raises of nearly 27 percent for 3 NFTA executives. Then they complain they have no money. Minkel is the biggest waste they could have hired. The NFTA is nothing more than a taxpayer ripoff.

    Executive Director Kimberly A. Minkel by about $55,000 to $262,825, far too high as the state faces major fiscal challenges this year. Indeed, Minkel and two other top authority executives declined their new raises after feeling Albany's opposition, according to two Cuomo administration officials familiar with the situation.

    “We didn’t think those raises were appropriate considering the authority’s and the state’s finances,” said one Cuomo administration source who asked not to be identified.

    The pay hikes for Minkel and other top staffers were never authorized by the authority’s board of commissioners or publicly disclosed. But the administration sources say they were instituted by Sister Denise A. Roche, the NFTA chairwoman empowered by authority bylaws to implement salary changes.

    A salary increase also was proposed for General Counsel David J. State from $152,000 to $193,961, or 27.6 percent, as well as for Chief Financial Officer John Cox from $130,000 to $165,000, or 26.9 percent. Minkel’s raise would have represented an almost $93,000 increase above when she was hired at $170,000 just over seven years ago.
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    “We didn’t think those raises were appropriate considering the authority’s and the state’s finances,” said one Cuomo administration source who asked not to be identified.
    There are many things not appropriate when it comes to spending our money. Why would they use that excuse for this example?

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    minkel and her goons want raises but let the tracks fall apart on the train that goes no place.
    Then you have this goofball politician Mr. 30 MPH wanting more money to fix the tracks.
    Assemblyman Sean M. Ryan says the new state budget set for adoption by April 1 presents an opportunity for similar attention in Buffalo.

    He is proposing a five-year, $100 million capital plan addressing the costs of rail transit not borne by other upstate systems that only run buses, but which is crucial to the Buffalo system’s long-term survival. As a matter of fairness, he adds, the question should be addressed in conjunction with the similar – if far greater – capital needs of downstate’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which also runs trains.

    “We’ve never developed a second funding line for Metro Rail,” Ryan said. “It’s always been funded like the other upstate bus lines. But just like the MTA, the NFTA faces a funding crisis.”
    http://buffalonews.com/2018/03/12/me...w-state-funds/
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