Bergen County Executive Kathleen A. Donovan’s decision to strip part-time Commissioners of the Northwest Bergen County Utilities Authority (NWBUA) of publicly paid stipends and health benefits has been unanimously endorsed by the region’s ten mayors.
According to Mayor Vince Barra of Allendale, President of the ten-member Northwest Bergen Mayors Association, “Our Mayors voted unanimously to support your action of vetoing the subject minutes. We fully concur with your decision that part time Commissioners should not receive benefits including health insurance and that such expenditures are totally unwarranted.”
He continued, “We applaud your concern that taxpayers should be required to shoulder such unreasonable expenditures particularly in these trying economic times.”
In addition to vetoing the Authority’s minutes, Ms. Donovan wrote to each Commissioner individually requesting that they forego compensation and publicly paid benefits or resign. Earlier, Ms. Donovan vetoed contracts and other expenditures that she deemed to be “excessive."
Barra said that his organization includes all of the member communities of NWBUA and noted that their residents pay 100% of the Authority’s expenditures.
County Executive Donovan thanked Mayor Barra and his colleagues for supporting fiscal restraint and said her administration is committed to working with the County’s mayors and other elected officials in holding down costs and cutting waste while assuring efficient delivery of services.
5 comments:
Part time workers usually do not receive benefits so why should these guys?
It's about time we cut the excessive pay And benefits for gov workers
Are these appointed positions ?
We're they getting part time pay for this part time job.
this is a step in the right direction
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