Opn. No.

Hon. Arthur Levitt Chairman Emergency Financial Control Board For the City of Yonkers

This is in reply to your request for my opinion as to whether the Control Board may legally approve retroactive salary increases for certain employees of the Yonkers Board of Education, covered by individual contracts of employment which provide general authority for adjustment of salaries during the term of the contract, but not for retroactive pay increases. My office has been advised by the counsel to the Board of Education that the employees involved were, at the time the contracts were entered into,…