Holiday parties and cards may be out, but the Long Island Power Authority will place Nassau Legis. Lisanne Altmann in a $110,000-a-year fulltime post when she leaves office in January.
The new LIPA budget unveiled last week includes a fulltime salary for Altmann as director of residential programs for LIPA’s efficiency effort. Until now, she has been in a part-time post in the same program, for which she receives $69,000 a year, officials said. She also makes $39,500 annually as a county legislator.
Altmann decided earlier this year not to seek re-election, months after landing on the losing side of a bitter squabble over the presiding officer’s post. Critics say she would have have had difficulty winning re-election. Edward Dumas, LIPA spokesman, said the new LIPA boss Kevin Law plans to increase conservation efforts. “We are ramping up for an aggressive year in those areas,” he said.
Rick Brand
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Talking about the slimy politics of Long Island life. Altmann who was in danger of winning re-election decides to step down. She was getting 69 thousand working part-time for LIPA and now she will be hired full time at 110 thousand? Is that because she is loseing the almost 40 thousand she was making as a legislator and needs to make up for that loss of income? What a scam, I hope LIPA is not, and is not going to become the new OTB for ex-politicians or those who are politically connected. And we elect these people to make wise and prudent decisions concerning the tax payers while they make sure to line their own pockets.
I thought Kevin Law was going to clean up LIPA but apparently its just more of the same Richie Kessel political appointments.....No one cares about the ratepayer...LIPA should be cut down to the original 10 employees it started with. Hey Steve Levy...do something....
Shame on LIPA. Lisanne Altman is a joke. Shame shame shame. She is precisely the type of person who should have been let go in the new regime. Apparently, what's old is new again.