Bob Bogart

Brothers, below is the information regarding services for Brother Bob Bogart as posted on the PFFA website. You will be notified when the memorial service will be held in White Plains.
Fraternally,
Frank Volpe

Good evening brothers,

This is a message from your executive board.

It is with sadness that we announce the passing of retired brother Robert Bogart, father of brother Scott Bogart.

The Bogart family will be having a small ceremony for Bob at the Elks Club in Vero Beach, Florida followed by a memorial service in White Plains in the near future.

Our thoughts and prayers are with the Bogart family at this difficult time. Thank you.

City demands mediation with Firefighters

CITY DECLARES IMPASSE WITH FIREFIGHTERS UNION, TOO (They already filed against the PBA). BINDING ARBITRATION COMING UP.

The President of the White Plains Firefighters, Joe Carrier, reported today exclusively to WPCNR News the city has declared an impasse with the firefighters in negotiations over a new contract. The firefighters, like the police union, have been without a contract the last two years, 2010-11, 2011-12.

Carrier said, “We are shocked. We are insulted. We told the city that we wanted to do an independent study of city finances to see if the city was in bad financial shape as they say they are. If (our) study reconfirmed what they were saying we’d entertain, taking zero raises the last two years and other things the city wants. After we told them that (our desire to do a study), we received a letter from the city last week declaring an impasse and asking for arbitration.”

Carrier said he had no timetable for when binding arbitration might begin. He was sharply critical of the city negotiator, the Corporation Counsel.

“The Mayor and the Common Council need to put a leash on the Corporation Counsel because this guy is running wild.”

Carrier said Mayor Roach was not taking a direct hand in the negotiations with the firefighters, that John Callahan, Corporation Counsel was handling them.

“We attempted to negotiate in good faith, and last week they send us this letter (declaring an impasse),” Carrier said. Carrier said the study would have been executed by Kevin Decker a consultant who works with the state firefighters union.

Carrier also said that a grievance his union has filed on behalf of the rehired 7 firefighters with Congressman Nita Lowey’s grant, is being arbitrated by the American Arbitration Association. The city has brought the 7 firefighters back on the payroll without pay increases to the prevailing wage level and the firefighter’s union objects to this as an unfair labor practice.

This article was published by the White Plains Citizen Network Reporter.

Wpcnr.com

Hockey

YOUR WPFD HOCKEY CLUB ROSTER 2012
COME OUT AND SUPPORT THE CHARITY AND YOUR BROTHERS ON MARCH 25.

Spread the word. Puck scheduled to drop at 1PM. At Ebersole Rink on Lake St in White Plains

WPFD HOCKEY

coach: Mark Farrell
coach: Adrian Scapperotti

Goalie: #35 Eric Fischer

4: Clark Douglas
7: Jimmy New
8: Billy Simmons
9: Frank Piccininni
11: Brian Noonan
14: James Manganello
19: Kieth Collins
20: Rob Ripari
21: Nick Williams
22: Ian Prauda
23: Rich Servello
27: Mike Ferguson

This report was submited by Frank Volpe

St. Patrick’s Day Parade

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White Plains St. Patrick’s Day Parade

Sat. March 10, 2012. Lineup outside of Italian Pavillion @ 11:30am

Please bring your Green Berets with Dress Uniform

Family & Friends welcome @ Vintage after the Parade

This report was submited by Frank Volpe

United Healthcare Settlement

United database settlement checks almost in the mail

Physicians and patients will split money from a case the American Medical Association filed over the company’s out-of-network payments.

By Emily Berry, amednews staff. Posted Feb. 16, 2012.

Twelve years after the original AMA v. UnitedHealth Group litigation was filed, and three years after the class-action settlement was announced, physicians and patients can expect to see checks in the mail soon, representing their part of the $350 million settlement.

U.S. District Court Judge Lawrence McKenna signed an order Feb. 2 allowing for the settlement disbursement. The money is meant to compensate millions of doctors and patients for payments lost as part of a system under which United and other insurers underestimated the “usual, customary and reasonable” charges for certain services.

Some insurers base what they pay out-of-network physicians on UCR. Physicians had argued for years that the UCR payments bore little relation to typical charges, and that the methodology behind them was hidden in what they called a “black box.”

Be Careful

Cuomo Urges Broad Limits to N.Y. Public Pensions

By DANNY HAKIM and THOMAS KAPLAN
NY TIMES
Published: June 8, 2011

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, joining a parade of officials from across the country who are seeking to rein in spending by limiting public employees’ pensions, proposed Wednesday to broadly limit retirement benefits for new city and state workers in New York.
Mr. Cuomo said New York State and New York City simply could no longer afford to offer new employees the generous benefits their predecessors received.

Among the most significant changes the governor proposes is to raise the minimum retirement age to 65 from 62 for state workers, and to 65 from 57 for teachers.

“The numbers speak for themselves — the pension system as we know it is unsustainable,” the governor said in a statement. “This bill institutes common-sense reforms to bring government benefits more in line with the private sector while still serving our employees and protecting our retirees.”

Mr. Cuomo’s proposal escalates a battle between the first-term Democrat and a major Democratic Party constituency: public-sector labor unions.