May 14, 2019
From: The
Federation of Connecticut Taxpayers
Contact: Susan Kniep, President
Website: http://ctact.org/
Email: fctopresident@aol.com
Telephone:
860-841-8032
Within the past few weeks, the grab for
more TAXPAYER DOLLARS is imminent as we learn
Despite objections that it is unaffordable, an arbitration award
for the newly formed Assistant Attorney Generals union passed the House and
Senate Wednesday.The
following is a sampling of the top salaries being paid $206,116; $205,309;
$204,523; $203,172; $202,066
On March 27, 2019 Christine Stuart of CT News
Junkie reported
Arbitration
Award For Assistant Attorneys General Approved
Excerpt The debate Wednesday focused mostly on
giving 14 department heads within the Attorney Generals
office $6,000 stipends in 2020 and $12,000 stipends in 2021. Those stipends are
on top of 3.5 percent wage increases and 2 percent step increases over the next
two years for all 200 assistant attorney generals. The total cost of the award is $3.3 million over the next two
years.
Continue
reading at
https://www.ctnewsjunkie.com/archives/entry/20190327_arbitration_award_for_assistant_attorneys_general_approved/
Posted to: Labor, Legal, State Budget, State Capitol
If you are wondering how much those in the Attorney Generals office are being paid, you can visit the State of Connecticuts website visit the website Transparency Connecticut, then click on Compensation, once on the website, click on ADVANCED SEARCH, Next click on
the arrow in the box marked ALL AGENCIES, Next click on ATTORNEY GENERAL, Next click on the word SEARCH, Next go to the column headed TOTAL and click on the column headed TOTAL twice. This will bring you to the
highest paid which includes annual salaries of $206,116;
$205,309; $204,523; $203,172; $202,066, etc. Twenty five employees are listed on
each page. You can then move from page to page by returning to the top of the
Column headed TOTAL and click on the Arrow above it.
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On May 7, 2019 Jon Lender of the hartford courant ct reported
Jon Lender Auditors slam Access Health CT for excessive
severance payments but agency is defiant
Click the following to read many more excellent
reports by
Jon Lender Hartford Courant
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There appears to be no
end to government waste of Taxpayer Dollars as the following Audit discloses
coupled with the payout referenced in the article by the Hartford Business
Journal which follows
On
March 9, 2019 at 4:13 PM Steven
Goode reported for the hartford courant ct
Audit finds Hartford failed to collect or
account for millions of dollars going back decades
Excerpt The audit concluded that the revenue collections unit failed
to collect $1.8 million in old Hartford Police Department private duty jobs
revenue prior to 2015. That money was written off as noncollectable.
https://www.courant.com/community/hartford/hc-news-hartford-independent-audit-lost-revenue-20190308-nxgiongmvrfphl6ez6mbugge4y-story.html
On
April 17, 2019 Joe Cooper of HartfordBusiness.com | Hartford Business
Journal Online
reported
CT projected to pay $45.6M in Hartford debt
aid in fiscal 2020
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