Thursday, July 5, 2012
Compensation for council, mayor remain flat; others see 2 percent increase.
The Township Council approved an ordinance Monday night that set salaries for department heads and other municipal employees, with very little change in expenditures. The compensations for mayor ($15,000), council president ($8,000), council members ($7,000), director of administration ($147,000) and municipal judge ($52,000) remain the same as last year. Increases of 2 percent are incorporated into the compensation for the following positions: The Chief of Police received a 2.75 percent increase. Compensation for the director of law and prosecutor are by contract. Township Administrator James Naples had previously indicated the salaries are consistent with what was passed and accounted for in the 2012 budget. The ordinance was passed by …
Tuesday, June 19, 2012
Those for council, mayor to remain the same, others see 2 percent increase.
The township council unanimously approved the introduction of an ordinance Monday that sets salaries for department heads and others—and for the most part, there isn't much of a change in costs. Township administrator James Naples said the compenations for mayor, council president, council, director of administration and municipal judge are all flat. "There is a zero increase from the past," he said. The rest of the salaries, Naples said, will see a 2 percent increase, with the exception of the police chief, who sees a 2.75 percent increase, all consistent with contracts and other determinations. Naples said these salaries are all consistent with what was passed and accounted for in the 2012 budget. Public hearing for the ordinance will be…
Monday, June 27, 2011
The state's fiscal mess is mostly not their fault.
Over the last few weeks, the battle over New Jersey public employee pensions and health benefits has been fierce. Last week, the workers wound up the losers. The issues often are portrayed as simple ones—the unions are bullies who strong-armed state or local employers to get cushy perks for their members, or the governor and Legislature are the bullies stealing hard won benefits and collective bargaining rights from poor workers. It’s actually much more complicated than that. Way back 20 or 30 years ago, there was pretty much no doubt that New Jersey’s public workers on a whole were low-paid compared with people in the private sector. If you went to work in a public job, it was for the benefits, particularly for a good pension. Then came …
Monday, June 20, 2011
You can be nosey, or you can use the data to become a better citizen.
Last week, the New Jersey Department of Education released its database of school salaries. This has become an annual rite, usually at the end of or soon after the end of the school year. The information includes years of experience, educational degrees, job titles and, of course, the salary for every professional public school employee in the state. That means teachers, principals, superintendents, librarians, guidance counselors and others. It provides fodder for news stories. It gives citizens specifics about how tax dollars are being spent. And it ticks off more than a few educators who are appalled that their salaries are being publicized for their neighbors, friends and all the world to see. Used to be, pre-Internet, newspapers would…
Roll Back Our Tax
7:29 pm on Friday, December 30, 2011
Glad 2011 will be over soon. Will 2012 be any better? Probably not. A look at things to come with Greece leading the way. See what happens when austerity plans have to be implemented because a country is too deep in debt to pay their public employees and they take it out on the private sector workers still employed. . http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/8786547/The-Greek-tragedy-no… more ›