Let the Sunshine In
Check out the updated SunlightNY.com Web site.
No, it’s not as danceable as the soundtrack from the musical Hair, but it marks another step in NYS efforts to make public information more accessible to everyone.
You can search for records on all kinds of public things.
Click here to see information about Mayor Brown’s Fund to Advance Buffalo, for example. That’s the 501c3 funded by proceeds from tickets sold to the State of the City address.
From there, you can click on the original source link, where you gain access to more than just the tax forms for the organization. Did you know, for example, that they received a notice of incomplete filing from the Charities Bureau of the NYS Office of the Attorney General dated July 18, 2008? Or that they do their banking with Greater Buffalo Savings Bank?
You could call for further comment from them if you like. If you look through the documents, you’ll discover that one contact number for the organization is Mayor Brown’s office, one number is Dana Bobinchek’s cell phone, still another puts you through to the offices of Hodgson Russ.
Hmm. I wonder why the Buffalo Public Schools Foundation doesn’t turn up in a records search of the Charities Bureau of the NYS Office of the Attorney General?
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Cool! Salaries at local groups can be quickly ascertained. Folks looking for a great paying job should try to get in at Belmont Shelter, where the top eight employees/directors shared $733,815 in 2007. That’s not even counting health insurance!! 2008 and 2009 are probably even better, so send get your applications over there ASAP
2007 salaries at Belmont Shelter
TOTALS INCLUDED ON FORM 990, PART V-A
Top five employess salaries $305,702 pension contributions $51,910
Directors salaries $329,628. Directors pension contributions $46,575
Top 5 paid employees (other than directors)
MICHAEL SCARPELLO –CONTROLLER
25 HAMPTON CT. LANCASTER, NY 14086 salary 66,222. pension contribution 13,040.
ERIC_SCHIFFMAN_____________________REHAB PROGRAMS MGR
18 LAKEWOOD DR., ORCHARD PARK, NY 141 salary 63,649. pension contribution 12.784.
JUDITH SCOTT ——————————–PROJECT MANAGER
12277 HANOVER RD. SILVERCREEK NY 14 salary 61,529. pension contribution 8,626.
JOHN MCMAHON —————————— HOUSING PROGRAMS MGR
143 CARLA LN WEST SENECA NY 14224 salary 58,864. pension contribution 11200.
LYNN BRENNAN ——————————— PROPERTY MANAGER
44 HARVARD PL ORCHARD PARK NY 14127 salary 55,438. pension contribution 6,260.
Total top five salaries $305,702 pension contributions $51910
Board of Directors and their salaries for 2007
ELIZABETH HUCKABONE
1195 MAIN STREET
BUFFALO, NY 14209 PRESIDENT/DIR
salary 115,833. pension contribution 17,851.
JEFFERY NOWACKI
4633 DEERFIELD ROAD
HAMBURG, NY, 14075
BRUCE C. BAIRD
215 BROADWAY
BUFFALO, NY 14204
MIKE D. RIEGEL
1195 MAIN STREET
BUFFALO, NY 14209 VICE PRESIDENT/TREASURER
salary 116,239. pension contribution 12,662.
KATHY O’BRIEN
1195 MAIN STREET
BUFFALO, NY 14209 VICE PRESIDENT/ SECRETARY
salary 97,556. pension contribution 16,062.
RODNEY RICHARDSON
120 SOUTH DR.
BUFFALO, NY 14226
GLENDORA JOHNSON
1097 ELLICOTT ST.
BUFFALO, NY 14209
EVELYN PIZARRO
97 AVA LANE
WILLIAMSVILLE, NY 14221
CHRISTOPHER JACOBS
70 SENECA ST
BUFFALO, NY 14210
TOTALS INCLUDED ON FORM 990, PART V-A
Directors salaries $329,628. Directors pension contributions $46,575
Top five salaries $305,702 pension contributions $51910
Comment by sunshone — April 10, 2009 @ 12:57 pm