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Name ßeµartment 1|t|e Regu|ar Pay £xtra µay 1eta| Pay
Rcnald ^. Hubbard Ccrreotlcn Sergeant 5106,597 5181,783 5288,381
Cerardc Clzzc lubllo Safety lclloe cffloer 587,025 5161,537 5248,562
Mlohael C. Rcdak Ccrreotlcn 0ffloer 582,311 5115,519 5197,830
1effrey v. Hunt lubllo Safety Lleutenant 5116,386 576,696 5193,082
Darren v. Bcwser Ccrreotlcn Sergeant 5101,683 589,964 5191,647
Barry ^. Sllverman lubllo Safety lclloe cffloer 5135,582 554,775 5190,357
^drlan F. Ccley Ccrreotlcn Sergeant 5104,413 580,671 5185,084
Henry L. Cetlna lubllo Safety Lleutenant 5118,149 566,580 5184,728
R. wm. Lcwensteln lubllo Safety Lleutenant 5130,334 553,979 5184,313
latrlok 1. lcggl Ccrreotlcn Sergeant 5102,557 580,815 5183,372
westohester Ccunty cfflolals spent 531.9 mllllcn last year ln cvertlme and extra ocmpensatlcn,
suoh as retrcaotlve pay. Thls ohart shcws the ocunty's tcp 10 earners.
Scuroe: 2007 westohester Ccunty payrcll.
Data analysls by Cathey 0'Dcnnell, The 1curnal News.
0vert|me be|sters µay fer many ceunty emµ|eyees
19th District race has rivals
crisscrossing counties Ior votes
Susan Llan
The ]ournal News
The campaign styles ol the two candidates lor the
19th District Congressional seat are as dillerent as
their platlorms.
But neither U.S. Rep. ]ohn Hall, DDover !lains, a
lounding member ol the band Orleans who earned a
living as a musician until he came to ollice in the 2OOG
Democratic sweep ol Congress, nor Republican chal
lenger Kieran Lalor ol !eekskill is
taking anything lor granted.
¨His opponent did that two years
ago, and we knowwhat happened,"
Susan Spear, Hall`s campaign di
rector, said £riday.
Spear was relerring to Hall`s
narrowvictory over 12year Repub
lican incumbent Sue Kelly ol Ka
tonah lollowing a liveway Democ
ratic primary.
Lalor started eyeing the seat in
the oncesale Republican district
soon alter Hall took ollice. Now82,
Lalor was still a student at !ace
LawSchool working nights as a se
curity guard when he declared his
candidacy in the spring ol 2OO7.
With little more than a week to
go belore the Nov. 4 election, both
candidates have stepped up cam
paigning in the sprawling congres
sional district that stretches lrom
northern Westchester across !ut
nam and into parts ol Rockland, Dutchess and Or
ange counties.
They are turning up at commuter train stations,
shopping centers, rallies, lorums, lundraisers and on
voters` doorsteps.
Hall also continues congressional appearances in
the district. On Thursday, Hall, chairman ol the \et
erans Allairs Committee`s Subcommittee on \eter
ans Disability Assistance and Memorial Allairs, was
at Westchester Community College in \alhalla to talk
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Network Iractured,
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risk premature death
Larry Wheeler
Washington Bureau
The U.S. health care system
does many things right. But lor the
most part, the nation`s vast network
ol physicians, hospitals, insurance
companies and government pro
grams is a lractured, costly mess.
The most glaring lailure ol the
system, according to many ex
perts, is the growing number ol
Americans who have no health in
surance, which makes them less
likely to seek medical help when
they need it, risking lurther illness
and even premature death.
Nine years ago, 88 million Amer
icans hadno healthinsurance. Now
that number stands at 4G million,
about 15 percent ol the population.
And it`s likely to get worse as
the economic downturn costs
more people their |obs and access
to health care through employer
sponsored health insurance.
The lack ol health insurance is
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BeneIit is part oI various
union contracts; police
sergeant gets lawdegree
Cerald McKinstry
The ]ournal News
WH!TL !LA!NS ÷ Taxpayers last
year picked up the tab lor $884,981 in
tuition expenses lor Westchester
County workers.
!n all, 129 ol the county`s 7,8G9 em
ployees took part in a program that re
imburses workers lor courses, accord
ing to an analysis ol pay data lrom2OO7
collected under the state £reedom ol
!nlormation Law.
The county budgeted $458,OOO lor
classes related to workers` |ob lunc
tions under terms ol the various union
contracts, said Deputy County Lxecu
tive Larry Schwartz.
¨!t`s not something new. !t`s been
there since Michaelian," Schwartz said,
relerring to County Lxecutive Ldwin
C. Michaelian who served in the 19GOs.
¨! consider this an investment in the
public we serve. When you improve
their skills and knowledge, the public
gets better service. We`re training peo
ple to do better at their |obs."
!t`s no dillerent than programs ol
lered by companies in the private sec
tor such as !BM, !epsiCo or others, he
said.
Other municipalities in Westchester
such as New Rochelle, Yonkers and
others oller similar tuition reimburse
ment programs lor their workers.
¨!t`s very carelully scrutinized,"
Schwartz said. ¨They`re not taking
courses to get a |ob somewhere else.
They`re not taking movie star 1O1."
County employees were compensat
ed lor various sub|ects with reimburse
County picks up tuition bill for employees
Cerald McKinstry, ]orge £itzCibbon,
and Cathey O`Donnell
The ]ournal News
WH!TL !LA!NS ÷ Westchester Coun
ty`s top earner last year was a correction
ollicer who took home $288,881, much ol it
in extra pay.
The county payroll topped $899.8 million
in 2OO7 with 74 percent ol overtime and
other pay going to police and correction ol
licers, according to a ]ournal News analy
sis ol payroll data obtained under state
£reedom ol !nlormation Law.
!n some cases, public salety and correc
tion workers more than doubled their in
come by working extra shilts.
¨These people are good, responsible em
ployees that are contractually allowed to
apply lor (overtime)," said Deputy County
Lxecutive Larry Schwartz. ¨We are not
wasting taxpayer dollars."
The highest paid county employee was
correction Sgt. Ronald Hubbard, who
earned $288,881, or $181,788 above his base salary.
That`s lar more than County Lxecutive Andrew Spano
who pulled in $1GO,144 and ranked 5Oth among public coun
ty workers.
Westchester County is the most recent public payroll the
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Ccps, ocrreotlcn cffloers earn
74º cf extra pay, reocrds say
bad lor individuals, bad lor busi
nesses and hurts the economy,
said Diane Rowland, executive
vice president ol the Henry ].
Kaiser £amily £oundation, one ol
the nation`s leading health policy
organizations.
¨Our growing uninsured popu
lation gets care later, il at all, and
ends up sicker than those with
coverage," Rowland told a con
gressional panel earlier this year.
!n 2OOG, an estimated 22,OOO
Americans died prematurely be
cause they lacked health insur
ance. Lost productivity due to poor
health and shorter lile span could
cost the economy as much as $2OO
billion a year, Rowland said.
!eople with low incomes ÷ be
low $25,OOO per year ÷ were
much more likely to have no
health insurance than those with
incomes over $75,OOO per year, ac
cording to government statistics.
AlricanAmericans and Hispan
ics were much more likely to be
uninsured than white, nonHispan
ic people.
When compared to the crisis
that enveloped the U.S. economy
and linancial markets, linding a lix
lor the problems that lor years
have beset the health care system
may seemlike something that can
wait, even though both presiden
tial candidates have stressed their
plans to relorm the system.
But that would be a mistake, ac
cording to many experts.
The linancial crisis is on ¨a colli
sion course" with the health care
crisis, said !rwin Redlener, Colum
bia University prolessor and health
care adviser to Democratic presi
dential candidate Barack Obama.
¨You can`t separate the two," he
said at a lorumat the University ol
\irginia.
The $7OO billion linancial res
cue package Congress approved
pales in comparison with the dol
lars involved in U.S. health care,
William Winkenwerder, a health
care adviser to ]ohn McCain said
at the same lorum in Char
lottesville, \a.
¨!n 2OOO, we were spending
around $1.4 trillion on health care.
Now we`re spending $2.2 trillion,"
Winkenwerder said. ¨!t`s scary
when you think about it. !t`s be
come unallordable lor a lot ol peo
ple."
While advances in medical sci
ence have ollered patients and
health care prolessionals lilesav
ing techniques, tools and treat
ments unavailable in the past, by
many measures the U.S. health
care system isn`t perlorming as
well as it could.
Some examples:
W The U.S. placed last among 19
industrialized countries in a study
comparing preventable deaths.
W The U.S. had the highest in
lant mortality rate and tied with
NewZealand and the United King
domlor the lowest average healthy
lile expectancy, according to anoth
er study ol industrialized nations.
W The U.S. spends more per
capita on health care than any oth
er nation ÷ more than $2 trillion,
or $7,O2G per person ÷yet cannot
deliver health care to everyone
who needs it, according to The
Commonwealth £und, a private
loundation that promotes health
care relorm.
W There is so much variability
lrom state to state in the health
care provided by doctors and hos
pitals that il all states perlormed
as well as Minnesota, an estimated
9O,OOO premature deaths could be
prevented each year.
¨Our system simply doesn`t
work very well," said Mark Smith
ol the Calilornia HealthCare £oun
dation.
Repeated attempts in recent
years to bring order to the chaos
have been like playing the carni
val game ¨whackamole," Smith
told an audience at a recent health
care relorm meeting in Washing
ton, D.C.
Whatever solution is proposed,
the group being asked to relorm
÷ be it the health insurance in
dustry, doctors or hospitals ÷
raise up and ¨whack" the propos
al down, Smith said.
Nevertheless, many health in
dustry ollicials and policy experts
are preparing lor yet another go at
relorming the U.S. health care sys
tem next year when either Repub
lican McCain or Democrat Obama
moves into the White House.
Reaoh Larry wheeler at
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ment and school district payrolls
across its coverage area.
The county`s work lorce
reached 7,8G9 workers with
roughly hall ol employees earning
some overtime, which cost taxpay
ers $81.9 million last year.
Ol that, most overtime went to
correction and public salety work
ers, according to the data.
¨Cops have overtime because ol
the nature ol their |ob," said Susan
Tolchin, Spano`s chiel adviser.
Tolchin made $15G,891. ¨No
body`s doing something they`re
not supposed to be doing."
¨You`re not seeing a secretary
in an ollice doing that, because a
secretary in an ollice is not re
quired to lill a post il the |ail goes
up or is not required to get out
there on a parkway when there`s
accidents," she said.
Tolchin added that the county
this year cut $4.75 million in
salaries and overtime, which in
cludes $2 millioninovertime lor the
correction department, while pub
lic salety is on pace to reduce its
overall budget by some $8OO,OOO.
Schwartz also delended the
workers and their pay, saying that
in the case ol police and correction
ollicers, overtime costs are mostly
driven by arrests made through
out the county, including those by
other police departments such as
Yonkers, Mount \ernon and
White !lains.
!l there are needs lor special
units like the bomb squad or air
patrol, that`s olten covered with
overtime. A lot ol it, Schwartz
added, ¨is incurred by assisting
municipalities."
¨We are not going to tell them
to stop making arrests," he said.
Schwartz, one ol 9G employees
in the county executive`s ollice,
earned $159,O15. What`s over
looked, he said, was that county
departments were not exceeding
their budgets.
¨The bottom line is the county
executive and his stall have been
liscally responsible in monitoring
expenses and overtime," he said.
£xtra µay
The county`s top 2O earners
were all lrompublic salety and cor
rection department with earnings
ranging lrom$17G,OO5 to $288,881
÷ and totalling $8.85 million in
combined takehome pay.
Second only to Hubbard in
earnings was Cerardo Cizzo, a
county police ollicer who made
$248,5G2, or about $1G1,587 more
than his base pay. Cizzo was also
the top county earner in 2OOG
when he took home $2GG,887.
Michael Rodak, a correction olli
cer, made $197,88O in total pay and
police Lt. ]ellrey Hunt pulled in
$198,O82 with $7G,G9G in extra pay.
County ollicials note that the
payroll numbers include more
than |ust base pay and overtime.
Correction and public salety olli
cers can also receive longevity and
night dillerential pay, stipends lor
specilic duties, and other income
beyond straight overtime pay.
Correction Commissioner
]oseph Spano, lor instance, noted
that Hubbard`s payroll ligure in
cludes about $1O,OOO in longevity
and night dillerential pay, and
some $87,OOO in retroactive pay
lor 2OO5 and 2OOG that correction
union members received due the
settlement ol a labor contract.
!n Cizzo`s case, his 2OO7 take
home pay included $2O,9OO in
earned income rolled over lrom
2OOG, plus $1O,1OO in holiday pay
that ollicers are contractually enti
tled to, said !ublic Salety Commis
sioner Thomas Belliore.
Both departments have proce
dures in place that allow ollicers
to volunteer lor overtime in a
structured way:
W Correction ollicers sign up lor
available overtime on a sevenday
cycle. The assignments are doled
out based on seniority, but the
senior ollicer cannot take a second
shilt until everyone on the list has
had a shot at their lirst.
W !ublic Salety overtime shilts
are lirst ollered to ollicers on duty,
with priority going to the ollicer
who has amassed the least
amount ol overtime. !l shilts still
need to be lilled, lieutenants reler
to a signup book ol overtime vol
unteers with the decision made on
a lirstcome, lirstserved basis, but
also based on the amount ol over
time accrued to date.
!l all else lails, Belliore said oll
duty ollicers are called at home.
¨Our overtime here is moni
tored almost ad nauseum," he
said. ¨We look at it all the time.
We look at it in almost every de
tail. !t`s part ol my monthly com
stat meeting, so where ! look at a
unit`s productivity measures at the
very same time !`m comparing it
to its overtime output, and having
them explain to me why produc
tivity lor the month may be down
or llat, and yet overtime is up."
Spano, the correction commis
sioner, said his department saw a
spike in overtime last year be
cause ol higherthanexpected
prisoner population: The number
ol inmates averaged 1,GOO over the
lirst six months ol last year, sur
passing the estimated 1,475 lor
which the department budgeted.
¨The public sometimes is mis
led to think that we have a system
in place that allows a senior cor
rection ollicer to |ust have as
much overtime as they want,"
Spano said. ¨And that is not the
case. We have a lair and equitable
equalization system in place that
was negotiated into place with the
unions back in the `8Os."
Cr|t|cs: Cut cests
Ol the entire county work lorce,
94O, or about 12 percent, made
more than a sixligure income; live
employees earned that in over
time alone.
Here`s a look at some ol the
county departments:
W The county`s largest depart
ment was parks with 1,595 work
ers and a payroll ol $28.8 million.
W Correction`s 1,OOG employees
pulled in $8G.4 million in pay.
W Social Services paid $G9.7 mil
lion to its 1,879 employees.
W !ublic Salety paid $85 million
to its 418 workers.
W Health Department paid $22.8
million to its 424 employees.
W District Attorney`s ollice paid
$21.9 million to its 271 stallers.
WThe probationdepartment paid
$17.5 million to its 251 workers.
W The county executive`s ollice
paid $G.28 million to its 9G employ
ees.
W The Board ol Legislators had
the lowest payroll at $8.2 million
lor its G1 workers.
These numbers, particularly
the overtime, showthat the Spano
Administration is not properly
managing expenses nor taxpayers
interests, said Legislator Cordon
Burrows, RYonkers.
While it may be natural lor old
er workers approaching retire
ment to volunteer lor overtime to
boost their pension, he said that`s
a practice that must be monitored.
¨This is another clear signal ol
mismanagement. Clearly, anyone
who can make in excess ol two
times their salary are not being re
viewed by the people in charge,"
Burrows said. ¨!t`s incumbent
upon department heads to be vig
ilant on these types ol abuses."
He and other members ol the
Republican minority have called
lor a 5 percent ¨across the board"
reductions ol nonessential servic
es, and they will oller cuts during
the budget process, Burrows said.
Schwartz said critics are oll
base. The reason why taxes are
high in Westchester is because ol
schools and home values. ¨!t has
nothing to do with county taxes,"
Schwartz said.
¨! want to know specilically, de
partment by department and per
son by person, what they want to
cut," he said. ¨Look at the bottom
line in county government. Andy
Spano has been liscally responsi
ble. The last lour budgets have
been below the rate ol inllation
even though threequarters ol
services are mandated.
¨We do our due diligence in
scrutinizing the way we spend
money. !t is second to none ol any
government or school district in
the state," he said. ¨We monitor
stalling levels 8G5 days a year."
0vers|ght fer evert|me
Overtime is at times necessary
and sometimes better than hiring
more stall, said Neal Rosenstein,
government relorm coordinator
lor New York !ublic !nterest Re
search Croup, or NY!!RC, though
governments need to better ex
plain to the public how such ex
penses are incurred.
¨Covernments need clear and
accurate budgeting, and il recur
ring overtime is an ongoing cost,
clearly changes need to be made,"
Rosenstein said. ¨Overtime is lre
quently needed, but olten times
abused.
¨Communities need to do over
sight. They need to explain over
time policies and why more costly
overtime is a better strategy. Ulti
mately, it`s taxpayers` dollars, and
the county should be above board
and explain to lolks why it`s nec
essary," Rosenstein said.
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cr 9146968285.
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Certilicate, undergraduate and
graduate courses are eligible
while seminars, workshops, con
lerences and hobby courses are
not. Nurses, accountants, social
workers, secretaries, police and
counselors were among the coun
ty workers using the program.
The highest reimbursement in
2OO7 went to ]ames Cenesi, a po
lice ollicer promoted to sergeant;
he graduated lrom law school.
¨! personally am a very strong
supporter ol education in law en
lorcement," said county !ublic
Salety Commissioner Thomas
Belliore. ¨You want these advance
degrees to be related and beneli
cial. What these ollicers do is the
ideal situation. Higher education,
! think, is a very important attrib
ute lor any police ollicer."
The program allocates money
lor each ol its unions and nonrep
resented management stall. !t`s all
negotiated during the collective
bargaining process.
The Westchester County !olice
Benevolent Association, lor exam
ple, gets $4O,OOO a year while the
nurses union gets $28,OOO. !nves
tigators with the District Attor
ney`s Ollice and other nonunion
management workers get $1O,OOO,
Schwartz said.
The remaining $885,OOO is allo
cated lor Civil Service Lmployees
Association, Corrections Ollicers
Benevolent Association, Superior
Ollicers Association, Teamsters,
and Management & Conlidential
Lmployees, he said.
There is an annual cap ol $7,OOO
lor anyone approved, thoughpolice
are exempt lrom that. Reimburse
ment over $5,25O is taxable, though
it is not consideredpart ol their pay.
The program is competitive,
Schwartz said. Applications are
chosen by the ]oint UnionCounty
Committee on Lducation and Tu
ition, which is made up ol mem
bers lrom each union. Selection
must be unanimous by committee
members, he said.
Reaoh Cerald MoKlnstry
at gmoklnst©lchud.ocm
cr 9146968285.
Taxpayers
pick up
workers`
tuitions
1UI1I0N, frem 1A
ât s ¿|sace
westohester Ccunty salarles:
Number cf emplcyees 7,869
Tctal payrcll 5399,873,048
Tctal (regular) payrcll 5367,914,585
Tctal cvertlme 531,958,463
leroent cvertlme 8
Tctal tultlcn 5384,931
Medlan ocunty salary 550,548
Scuroe: 2007 westohester Ccunty payrcll reocrds.
Data analysls by Cathey 0`Dcnnell, The 1curnal News.
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la|| aaeat t|e
Westc|ester
0eart] sa|ar|es
|r t|e
¯Westc|ester'
|eram at
|edaa.cem.

Experts:
Health
system
a failure
R£AL1R, frem 1A
0a t|e We|
W Kalser Famlly Fcundatlcn
health oare refcrm lnfcrma
tlcn: www.health08.crg
W Rcbert wccd 1chnscn Fcun
datlcn health lnsuranoe re
fcrm lnfcrmatlcn: http://ocver
theunlnsured.crg
W ^lllanoe fcr Health Care
Refcrm: www.allhealth.crg
W The Ccmmcnwealth Fund
health oare refcrm lnfcrma
tlcn: www.ocmmcnwealth
fund.crg
W ^merloan Medloal ^sscola
tlcn health oare refcrm lnfcr
matlcn: www.vcloefcrtheunln
sured.crg
W ^merloan Hcspltal ^sscola
tlcn health oare refcrm lnfcr
matlcn: www.aha.crg/aha/ls
sues/Healthfcrllfe/lndex.html
W ^merloa`s Health lnsuranoe
llans health lnsuranoe refcrm
lnfcrmatlcn: www.amerloan
healthsclutlcn.crg
W ^merloan Nurses ^sscola
tlcn health refcrm lnfcrmatlcn:
www.nurslngwcrld.crg/Maln
MenuCategcrles/Healthoare
andlclloylssues/HSR.aspx
W Natlcnal ^sscolatlcn cf
Ccmmunlty Health Centers:
www.naoho.crg
0a|asareá |a New \erk
New Ycrk ranked 26th ln the natlcn ln the number cf pecple un
der age 65 wlthcut health lnsuranoe. Thls ohart shcws an estl
mate cf thcse wlthcut lnsuranoe and hcw the Lcwer Hudscn val
ley ranks ocmpared wlth the rest cf the state.
Number Percent ef
Ceunty un|nsured µeµu|at|en Rank
westohester 131,260 16 24
lutnam 14,712 16 22
Rcokland 32,176 13 53
New Yerk 5tate 2,469,696 16 26
Scuroe: U.S. Census Bureau, 2005 estlmates
Data analysls by Cathey 0`Dcnnell, The 1curnal News.
Internat|ena| bazaar
Custcmers shcp fcr flcwers
made frcm ococnut leaves dur
lng the lnternatlcnal Bazaar yes
terday at the Marykncll Slsters
Center ln 0sslnlng. Carved and
handwcven orafts frcm the re
glcns where Marykncll Slsters
wcrk ln ^frloa, Central and Scuth
^merloa and ^sla were scld at
the Bazaar.
Left: Slster 1can Uhlen, 84,
wears a Marmar frcm the Mar
shall lslands that a frlend
bcught fcr her.
Be|ew: Dclls frcm Bcllvla are cn
sale at the bazaar.
!hotos by Tania Savayan
The ]ournal News
âee mere ç|etes |erm t|e
aataar |r a sçec|a| ça||er]
at |edaa.cem.

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