Where’s Deborah Glick when you need her?
Last week, the Manhattan assemblywoman announced a bill to cap the annual salaries of charter-school officials at $199,000. Glick’s rationale: No public-school official should make more than Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña, who is paid $212,614 a year.
In response, we pointed out that most top charter-school officials are paid by private donors, so it doesn’t cost the public a dime.
But if the assemblywoman is looking for a place to save taxpayer dollars and uphold her principles, we suggest she turn her gaze to the compensation of Peter Zimroth.
Zimroth is the federal monitor imposed on the NYPD by Judge Shira Scheindlin. As a result, The Post reported this weekend, Zimroth is now making $43,000 a month from this gig. That works out to about $525,000 a year.
In sharp contrast, Police Commissioner Bill Bratton earns $205,000 a year. Even Mayor de Blasio makes only $225,000. In other words, Zimroth makes more than the mayor and police commissioner combined.
And New York’s taxpayers are on the hook for all of it.
So how about it, Assemblywoman Glick: Should a federal monitor for the cops really earn $100K more than the mayor and NYPD commissioner’s salary combined?