  Most serve without pay  April 21, 2013  Area school board
members are not paid for their services.  Those who serve on a
number of county non-profit boards, some with organizations
responsible for more than $50 million, are not compensated.  So
explain again why the Dunkirk Housing Authority Board needs
stipends for attending each meeting? "It is a difficult board to
be on, it has a lot of responsibilities ... I think in this case
with all the benefits we get back from the housing authority I
think it warrants for them to keep their stipend," councilman
Adelino Gonzalez said last week. "Yes, we would like them to pay
their own stipend, but according to legal issues they can't do
that. So that's why I'm voting yes."  Gonzalez is not incorrect,
but a number of board members - some of those you know well in
this community - do not get paid while serving on those non-
profit boards that have "a lot of responsibilities."  Dunkirk
Housing Authority, however, exposes a flaw of government. For
some reason - years ag