Uniform allowance update

I just found, on
a fully legalese version of our paybill. It's much longer & confusing than the 'edited' version the Comptroller had posted on his web site.
But, it clears up something that has many of us pretty upset.

Here's the real poop:

each such employee who is on the payroll on the first day of November preceding the annual effective date shall receive an allowance for cleaning and maintenance at the rate of $575 per year effective December 1, 2003, at the rate of $625 per year effective December 1, 2004, at the rate of $725 per year effective December 1, 2005, and at a rate of $875 effective December 1, 2006 in accordance with the determination made by the public arbitration panel. Those employees entitled to the foregoing benefit and who work in a shock incarceration camp will receive an additional $50 on each of the effective dates in accordance with any such determination made by the public arbitration panel. Such amounts, for all of the above, shall be offset by payments already received as uniform allowance in each year and the remainder shall be calculated as part of a retroactive payment. Effective March 31, 2007, the uniform allowance of $875 shall be increased for such unit members to whom the provisions of this section apply to $1,075 and shall be added to the basic annual salary of those employees in payroll status on March 30, 2007. Effective March 31.

Now, this is the actual language of the bill that went before the state senate & the state asembly and was passed...
You can read the whole stinkin' thing here: nysosc9.osc.state.ny.us/.../$FILE/LAWS%20OF%20NEW%20YORK-2006-CHAPTER%20113.doc