Greenburgh Supervisor Feiner pays $820 yearly in health insurance premiums, based on 'tradition' linking elected official benefits to union contract

David McKay Wilson | Hudson Valley Digger | 6/2/26

Greenburgh Town Supervisor Paul Feiner, who has called for the abolition of exorbitant of health-insurance buyouts for elected town officials, pays just $820 a year to take the town’s family plan for himself and his wife.

Feiner, who earned $178,995 in 2025, pays the low rate, based on a formula pegged to 1% of the salary rate of unionized town employees who earned $81,035 last year. If that formula was adjusted to 1% of Feiner’s salary, he’d have to pay $1,790 a year, more than double his current charge.

Feiner said the formula used for town employees represented by the Civil Service Employees Association has been applied to elected officials for many years. However, the town has yet to provide a copy of a Town Board resolution that authorized such a policy....

[Barry] McGoey, an attorney and former president of Yonkers Firefighters Local 628, called Feiner’s financial deal with the town a “sweetheart deal.”

Said McGoey: “At a time when families are struggling to afford basic necessities like gas and groceries, it’s outrageous that Mr. Feiner created a sweetheart deal for himself, just to cover his own health insurance. He only pays just over $800 per year for his coverage—a benefit that has continued for more than a decade. That amount is less than what many people pay through Medicare, and no other Town employee or elected official receives such a favorable arrangement.”

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