A local Long Island pol just got her salary hikedto nearly $50,000 for a procedural side gig that calls for her to work a measly six and a half days a month — and she says the dough still isn’t enough.
Dorothy Goosby received the $10,000 annual pay bump as deputy supervisor of the Town of Hempstead, hiking her pay for that post to $48,000 a year — meaning that when combined with her $82,000 salary as a member of its town council, she rakes in nearly $130,000 in taxpayer money for both positions.
The job of deputy supervisor involves one duty — temporarily replacing the supervisor if they’re absent, according to Hempstead town code.
Goosby has only done so once — and for not even an hour. She filled in at the time in August when then-Supervisor Don Clavin’s abruptly resigned.
By definition, the job involves working six and a half days a month, with each workday capped at six hours, according to the town’s own statements made to the state comptroller during a May 2022 meeting.
Town Supervisor John Ferretti told The Post that while Tuesday’s raise might seem unusual, the bump reflects the 30 years of service that the hard-working Goosby has given to the community and that she was entitled to it.
Goosby herself claimed later that she had no idea how large the bump would be — even though she was at Tuesday’s meeting when it was voted on — and even added that it’s still not enough, according to Newsday.
“All I know is — they told me I got one,” said Goosby, who stayed out of voting for her own raise.
“I’ve been here 30 years, almost, so I need to have something, sometimes it’s still not enough,” said the councilwoman, the only Dem on the all-Republican board.
Ferretti had removed Goosby’s proposed pay bump from the 2026 budget in October, according to a video recording of the meeting — but with the election over, the bump was quietly reintroduced.
Some of Goosby’s constituents accused the Dem and her Republican board colleagues of using the pay bump as part of a back-door deal.
“[The raise is] so she supports all of the administration’s policies,” said Hempstead resident Felix Proacci.
Ferretti denied any back-door dealings and called Goosby a civil-rights icon and trailblazer who is more than deserving of the salary she receives for both positions.
Goosby, who consistently votes along Republican party lines and was the only Democrat present at Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman’s swearing-in Monday, did not respond to a Post request for comment.
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