Wednesday, January 9, 2013
Former Bergen County Freeholder Rob Hermansen plans to run for his party's nomination for an assembly seat, reports say
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Wednesday, January 9
A former Mahwah Councilman and ex-Bergen County Freeholder plans to run for the Republican nomination for a state assembly seat in the 39th District, reports said Wednesday. According to a NorthJersey.com report, Rob Hermansen, who served as a Mahwah councilman before he won a seat on the Bergen County Freeholder Board in 2009, announced Tuesday his intent to replace Republican Assemblyman Robert Schroeder, who is under indictment. Schroeder “so far has resisted calls from party leaders to step down from the Assembly, where he has served since 2010,” the report said. “An indictment issued on Dec. 21 accuses him of stealing $1.89 million from five people who lent him money for a business venture and with writing 47 bad checks to 12 …
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Mahwah member debated privitizing government services with other members of the Bergen County League of Women Voters
Over 25 residents from across Bergen County, joined The League of Women Voters of Bergen County for a forum on privatizing government services at the River Edge Borough Hall Tuesday afternoon. The discussion, which originally was supposed to feature former County Executive of Bergen County Willian "Pat" Schuber who had to back out at the last minute, instead was led by League members. “By examining some examples of privatization by federal, state, and local governments, we seek to identify strategies to ensure transparency, accountability, and protection of the common good,” Lucy Heller, President, League of Women Voters of Bergen County said. League members Patty Infantino (Ridgewood), Audrey Mayor (Park Ridge), Patty Libutti (Teaneck), …
Monday, October 31, 2011
County's total liability nears $54 million to its 2,754 employees
Employees of Bergen County government each get 12 sick days per year. Whatever they don’t use, they accumulate, year after year, over the course of their careers. At the start of 2011, the county’s 2,754 employees had banked 171,505 sick and vacation days, or 470 years worth, according to the county budget. And banked is the appropriate term, because most of those days likely will be cashed in when the employees retire. The county’s 2011 budget puts the potential cost for those days at $54.2 million. That’s a startling number compared to what other New Jersey counties project as their sick and vacation liability. A Patch survey of the budgets of New Jersey’s counties shows that Bergen’s liability for employee sick and vacation time is more…
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Ridgewood Mom
3:39 pm on Monday, January 16, 2012
Andy, You don't seem to understand the "sick day" system. It really isn't a benefit. If you took sick days away and added the "payout" sums to the yearly salary to get a single fixed salary, operating costs would go up. If you feel that doing this would paint a more honest picture of the total compensation of a public employee, then an even handed comparison of total compensation (including all … more ›