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Special districts: Big salaries, little oversight

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Two laborers in the Oyster Bay sewer district, whose duties include "unskilled or semi-skilled manual tasks," each make an annual base salary of $101,000.

A recreation aide, who performs such tasks as organizing games, makes $47 an hour in the Fishers Island ferry district.

And a meter reader, a job that requires only a high school education, according to a Civil Service job description,...

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