Opn. No.

Marvin J. Rosenthal, Esq. General Counsel, Rochester Housing Authority

This is in response to your letter wherein you state that your office is General Counsel to the Rochester Housing Authority. You explain that the Authority received and invested funds from the Department of Housing and Urban Development to pay its employees pursuant to a submitted budget. Included in the funds received was an allocation for a pay raise for Authority employees. You further explain that it is the Authority's intention to pay the raises retroactively after certain appropriate action has been taken. You ask…