SeanTX
08-19-2014, 11:07 AM
Another tax tick sucking blood from the productive class -- $403,714 just for unused leave time.
http://nypost.com/2014/08/16/hamptons-village-police-chief-retires-with-400k-payout/
Village to give retiring millionaire cop a huge, ‘criminal’ payout
By Isabel Vincent and Melissa Klein
August 16, 2014 | 10:28pm
Ray Dean, police chief of the 2.9-square-mile village of Westhampton Beach, is retiring with a bag of cash.
He is getting $403,714 for 15 years’ worth — or 531 days — of unused sick, vacation and personal time. The payment amounts to 4 percent of the village’s entire $9.7 million budget.
Dean resigned on June 30, a day before a new mayor with a reform platform, Maria Moore, took office.
When village trustees authorized the golden parachute, those at the meeting gasped, The Southampton Press newspaper reported.
“It’s criminal. It’s outrageous. It’s outlandish. It should never happen in a small village like this,” said Jim Kametler, a former Westhampton Beach cop who served on the Village Board from 2004 to 2010.
In addition, Dean, who is only 53, will collect an estimated pension of $142,000 a year.
Dean was already a millionaire. He bought a house in Quogue for $1.3 million in 2005, owns a 32-foot boat, and his pay last year came to $226,236 — more than NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton makes.
But while Bratton oversees a force of 34,500 uniformed officers, Dean presided over 11.
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In contract renewal talks in 2009, Dean threatened to sue the village, demanding pay for hundreds of hours of accumulated sick and comp time. This sum was folded into his final payment in June.
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http://nypost.com/2014/08/16/hamptons-village-police-chief-retires-with-400k-payout/
Village to give retiring millionaire cop a huge, ‘criminal’ payout
By Isabel Vincent and Melissa Klein
August 16, 2014 | 10:28pm
Ray Dean, police chief of the 2.9-square-mile village of Westhampton Beach, is retiring with a bag of cash.
He is getting $403,714 for 15 years’ worth — or 531 days — of unused sick, vacation and personal time. The payment amounts to 4 percent of the village’s entire $9.7 million budget.
Dean resigned on June 30, a day before a new mayor with a reform platform, Maria Moore, took office.
When village trustees authorized the golden parachute, those at the meeting gasped, The Southampton Press newspaper reported.
“It’s criminal. It’s outrageous. It’s outlandish. It should never happen in a small village like this,” said Jim Kametler, a former Westhampton Beach cop who served on the Village Board from 2004 to 2010.
In addition, Dean, who is only 53, will collect an estimated pension of $142,000 a year.
Dean was already a millionaire. He bought a house in Quogue for $1.3 million in 2005, owns a 32-foot boat, and his pay last year came to $226,236 — more than NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton makes.
But while Bratton oversees a force of 34,500 uniformed officers, Dean presided over 11.
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In contract renewal talks in 2009, Dean threatened to sue the village, demanding pay for hundreds of hours of accumulated sick and comp time. This sum was folded into his final payment in June.
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