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Police pay in Kings Point top in state
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Average salary just shy of $224K; police head points to overtime, staff BY LU K E TOR R A N C E The two police departments with the highest average pay in the state of New York are both on the North Shore. Police officers in the Village of Kings Point averaged $223,995 in salary this year, followed closely by the Village of Old Westbury with an average of $211,033, according to a recent report from the Empire Center for Public Policy. The two village departments were the only two departments in the state —" including cities,"towns, counties and other villages — with an average pay over $200,000. Village police departments, with their smaller staffs (Kings Point has 20 employees, Old Westbury has 26), tend to have higher payrolls than the larger county and city departments. Another North Shore village,
Lake Success, cracked the top five for pay in New York villages with an average salary of $172,234. Average pay for the Kings Point police was up about $3,000 from last year, according to the report, but Old Westbury jumped by more than $40,000 and moved from the fifth-highest pay to second highest. George Banville, the commissioner of the Kings Point Police Department, said he understands why someone might have a “kneejerk reaction” to the salaries. The number is “correct but it’s not correct” because it includes overtime and cash payouts on top of base pay, he said, and the department has been “short staffed” with 20 officers compared with the normal 24. “That thing they’re referring to is plus overtime and other adContinued on Page 58
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Great Neck Superintendent of Schools Teresa Prendergast greets students Tuesday on the first day of school at E.M. Baker Elementary School, one of four schools with a new principal this year. See story on page 2.
Great Neck man posts plea for kidney in NYC BY JA N E LL E CL AUSEN
attention to others. But a billboard in Times Square in Manhattan that went Normally Marc Weiner, a live last week instead shined former news director and vice a light on the Great Neck resipresident of news development dent’s need for a kidney so he for FIOS 1, would try to bring could get a “new lease on life.”
It was donated by his wife Lisa’s former colleague and friend in City Outdoor Media. “I’m doing whatever it takes,” Weiner, 53, who survived cancer but had to have Continued on Page 49
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