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SENATE COMMITTEE ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT
(7 members -- Senate Rule VII, §1)
Stipends:  Chair -- $15,000   Ranking Member: $9,500

Annual Reports: 2017  2018   2019

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2016
CHAIR: Kathleen Marchione

RANKING MEMBER:  Todd Kaminsky, ESQ.
Members:  Phil Boyle, ESQ., George Latimer, Terrence Murphy,
Robert Ortt, ESQ., Marc Panepinto, Patty Ritchie,
David Valesky

[see: 2016 LEGISLATIVE SESSION] 

CJA's June 1, 2016 e-mail to Chair Marchione  -- "Tabling, if not voting down, S.7408A -- state reimbursement of district attorney salary increases"  -- cc to NYSAC, DAANY
            referred-to March 31, 2016 e-mail -- "Subject: Restoring constitutionality and lawfulness to NY's budgeting process -- & overriding the 'force of law' judicial pay raises"
                                  "Subject: Have you read what the Constitution has to say about the NYS budget?"

CJA's June 1, 2016 e-mail to Ranking Member Kaminsky -- "Tabling, if not voting down, S.7408A -- state reimbursement of district attorney salary increases" -- cc to NYSAC, DAASNY

CJA's June 1, 2016 e-mail to Senator Valesky

CJA's  June 1, 2016 e-mail to Senator Murphy

CJA's June 1, 2016 e-mail to Senator Ritchie

CJA's June 1, 2016 e-mail to Senator Ortt

CJA's June 1, 2016 e-mail to Senator Boyle

CJA's June 1, 2016 e-mail to Senator Latimer

CJA's June 1, 2016 e-mail to Senator Panepinto

                                        VIDEO of Senate Committee on Local Government's June 1, 2016 meeting

CJA's June 1, 2016 e-mail to Chair Marchione -- "FOLLOW-UP:  Tabling, if not voting down, S.7408-A -- state reimbursement of district attorney salary increases"

CJA's June 1, 2016 e-mail to Ranking Member Kaminsky -- "FOLLOW-UP:  Tabling, if not voting down, S.7408-A -- state reimbursement of district attorney salary increases"

CJA's June 1, 2016 e-mail to Senator Boyle -- "FOLLOW-UP:  Tabling, if not voting down, S.7408-A -- state reimbursement of district attorney salary increases"

CJA's June 1, 2016 e-mail to Senator Latimer's Legislative Director -- "Thank you!..."

CJA's June 2, 2016 e-mail to Counsel to Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins -- "Senate Oversight??: (1) the statutory link between judicial and district attorney salaries; (2) the integrity of the district attorney offices"

CJA's June 2, 2016 e-mail to Counsel to Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan -- "Senate Oversight??: (1) the statutory link between judicial and district attorney salaries; (2) the integrity of the district attorney offices"

2017
CHAIR: Kathleen Marchione

RANKING MEMBER:  John Brooks
Members: Phil Boyle, David Carlucci, Todd Kaminsky, George Latimer,
Terrence Murphy, Robert Ortt, Patty Ritchie

 
 [see: 2017 LEGISLATIVE SESSION]

VIDEO
CJA's testimony at the Legislature's Jan. 30, 2017 budget hearing
 on "local gov't officials/general gov't"

VIDEO
CJA's testimony at the Legislature's Jan. 31, 2017 budget hearing on "public protection"

CJA's February 6, 2017 e-mail to Chair Marchione & Ranking Member Kaminsky -- "Letter to Leadership: (1) Legislative Law Article 5-A Commissions on Gov't Administration & State-Local Relations; (2) requested meetings to prevent repeat of constitutional, statutory & legislative rule violations re: fiscal year 2017-18 budget" -- CJA's February 6, 2017 letter to Temporary Senate President Flanagan, Senate Minority Leader Stewart-Cousins, Assembly Speaker Heastie, Assembly Minority Leader Kolb  -- "(1) Where are your appointments to the Commission on Government Administration and to the Commission on State-Local Relations, required by Legislative Law Article 5-A?; (2) When will you be responding to my requests for a meeting for purposes of preventing a repeat of the constitutional, statutory, and legislative rule violations chronicled by the September 2, 2016 verified complaint in CJA’s citizen-taxpayer action?"        

CJA's February 8, 2017 e-mail to Chair Marchione and Ranking Member Kaminsky -- "Subject: D.A. Salaries & Reimbursement to the Counties: Request for Emergency Meeting of Senate Committee on Local Gov't: RE: CJA's Jan 30th testimony  -- & 10th cause of action in citizen-taxpayer action"

VIDEO:  February 14, 2017 meeting of the Senate Committee on Local Government 

 

NOTE: 
 October 11, 2018
"Departing Senator Marchione endorses Jordan as replacement"
Post-Star   -- legislative director for 6 years & Senate local government committee director
wikipedia entry

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2019-2020

Chair: James Gaughran, ESQ.
Ranking Member: Patty Ritchie
Members: George Amedore, Jr., John Brooks, Peter Harckham, Jen Metzger, James Skoufis 


 

 

 

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