A Brooklyn legislator has been rewarded with a $6,000 raise for chairing a committee that rarely meets, The Post has learned.
City Councilwoman Sara Gonzalez (left) is going to receive a $10,000 stipend – on top of her $90,000 salary – for overseeing the upgraded Committee on Juvenile Justice.
Until this year, Gonzalez (D-Brooklyn) received $4,000 for chairing a lower-level subcommittee overseeing the same agency.
Gonzalez’s promotion infuriated Alex Parker, president of Local 1457, which represents workers in juvenile facilities.
Parker says he doesn’t begrudge Gonzalez the extra cash – he just wants her to do her job.
“We’re very disturbed,” declared Parker. “She’s actually going to be paid for not holding meetings for two more years.”
The City Council’s Web site shows the Subcommittee on Juvenile Justice held two oversight meetings – one on April 30, 2004 and another on April 19, 2005 – since Gonzalez took it over from James Davis, who was murdered inside City Hall on July 23, 2003.
Davis held five hearings in 2002 alone, according to the Web site.
Council officials said the Web site didn’t list two other oversight meetings held by Gonzalez, which would give her a total of four over two years.
Parker said he suspects Gonzalez’s “hearings” were actually site visits, and he’s not sure she even attended one of them.