What would you say if you had access to financial data on every person or company who ever worked for the City. Imagine if political donations of 501c's were public.If anything its pretty f-ing scary. But its a reality in New York state: SeeThroughNY.net.
Is this what the City Manager was thinking when it was announced that a DB of transactional information would be available on online?
The New York Sun reports: Wondering what your neighbor who works for the state of New York gets paid? A new Web site, seethroughny.net, has a searchable database of salary information on more than 263,000 state employees, including professors at the city and state universities (students may be surprised to learn that some of their professors are paid more by the taxpayers than is Assembly Speaker Silver). From the site one can also download a copy of the 165-page contract between the City of New York and the United Federation of Teachers, and the half-page agreement between Chancellor Klein and Mayor Bloomberg that sets out the terms by which the schools chancellor is employed. Union and superintendent contracts for the state's other school districts are also available for download on the site.
The Daily News reports: SeeThroughNY, the government transparency site, is up with a report on more than 1,000 retired educators' pensions, and from the looks of it, some of these guys aren't exactly living on PB&J. It looks like one James Hunderfund takes the cake. Mr. Hunderfund retired as superintendent of the Commack (L.I.) School District in 2006 with a cushy maximum benefit of $316,245. Hunderfund also serves as superintendent of the Malverne (L.I.) School District, where, the site says, he's entitled to at least $225,000 annually through June, 2011. Read it and weep!
