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A seasonal Nassau County employee spruces up the toll booths with paint on May 15, 2014, at the entrance to Nickerson Beach in Long Beach. (Credit: Danielle Finkelstein)
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Nassau County paid $26.6 million last year to more than 2,000 part-time and seasonal workers, some of whom have political or community ties or hold other government jobs.
Some of the part-timers earned more than full-time employees in the same job, at a time when full-time employees' wages were frozen and jobs were cut as the county attempted to meet budget goals imposed by a financial control board.
About half of the part-time and seasonal employees were paid by the parks department, and some do work that appears unrelated to their job titles, records show.
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For example, Justin Logerfo, the parks department's highest-paid part-timer, earned nearly $80,000 as a $36-an-hour part-time golf course attendant 1, a beginning level. Logerfo, whose uncle John Logerfo is a special assistant to County Executive Edward Mangano, earned nearly $26,000 more than the highest full-time golf course attendant 1. Justin Logerfo could not be reached.
Logerfo and two other part-time golf course attendant 1s -- Angela Neal, who earned $73,600, and Zahid Syed, who was paid $66,500 -- earned more than three full-time golf course managers, records show.
Neal declined to comment.
In addition to his $50-an-hour part-time job for the county, Syed works full time for the Republican-controlled Town of Hempstead as a $125,736-a-year economic development zone coordinator.
Mangano, a Republican, appointed Syed as head of the county's Human Rights Commission in 2010. Syed also founded the local chapter of the South Asian-American Political Action Committee, and he and his wife have contributed more than $26,000 to Mangano and other county Republican campaign committees since 2009. Syed could not be reached.
"It's very hard for me to understand how a part-timer could gross more than a full-time worker," said Jerry Laricchiuta, president of the Civil Service Employees Union, whose members hold the full-time golf course titles. "We'll just have to look into these cases."
"This is a political-insider feeding frenzy," said Legis. David Denenberg (D-Merrick), a frequent critic of the Mangano administration.
The issue of part-timers arose in March when Newsday reported that former Republican Assemb. Robert Barra, the full-time $129,000 Valley Stream village clerk, earned $33,586 as a part-time county golf course attendant 1 -- $10,000 more than a full-time attendant 1 whose pay had been frozen for three years.
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