The Hoboken Tax Reform Coalition
State investigators uncover costly bennies and perks in New Jersey’s local governments
Hoboken was featured prominently in the report
http://www.newjerseynewsroom.com/state/state-investigators-uncover-...
"Police officers receive time off not only for weddings but also for baptisms, confirmations and First Holy Communions, provided they take an active role in the ceremony. In Hillside and Hoboken police and firefighters in Hoboken benefit from similar contract provisions."
"Hoboken: Police can qualify for up to five days off per year for donating blood. Rank-and-file officers there must use that leave within 11 months of its receipt. Police superiors, however, may accumulate such days and apply them to terminal leave at career's end."
"Hoboken: Employees receive annual payments of between $700 and $1,500 for perfect attendance."
"Hoboken: In a financially-struggling city that was forced to lay off workers, freeze hiring, cut services and boost local property taxes by nearly 80 percent, $7.3 million was paid to retiring employees in exchange for accrued leave between 2004 and 2009."
The most surprising thing, is the up to 5 days off per-year for donating blood. For a mid-ranking officer getting 100K-a-year, thats roughly $2000 a year. Perfect attendance bonuses only make sense if we weren't paying our officers already for unused sick days. The report suggests capping the days an employee can accrue over a career. Seems like a lot can be recovered if we can just get a few reasonable tweaks in our union contracts.
http://www.newjerseynewsroom.com/state/state-investigators-uncover-...
"Police officers receive time off not only for weddings but also for baptisms, confirmations and First Holy Communions, provided they take an active role in the ceremony. In Hillside and Hoboken police and firefighters in Hoboken benefit from similar contract provisions."
"Hoboken: Police can qualify for up to five days off per year for donating blood. Rank-and-file officers there must use that leave within 11 months of its receipt. Police superiors, however, may accumulate such days and apply them to terminal leave at career's end."
"Hoboken: Employees receive annual payments of between $700 and $1,500 for perfect attendance."
"Hoboken: In a financially-struggling city that was forced to lay off workers, freeze hiring, cut services and boost local property taxes by nearly 80 percent, $7.3 million was paid to retiring employees in exchange for accrued leave between 2004 and 2009."
The most surprising thing, is the up to 5 days off per-year for donating blood. For a mid-ranking officer getting 100K-a-year, thats roughly $2000 a year. Perfect attendance bonuses only make sense if we weren't paying our officers already for unused sick days. The report suggests capping the days an employee can accrue over a career. Seems like a lot can be recovered if we can just get a few reasonable tweaks in our union contracts.
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Permalink Reply by TJ on -
Here IS the Hoboken REPorter's take on it, apparently it mentions Chief LaB runo:
http://www.hudsonreporter.com/pages/full_stories_home/push?article-...
on their homepage, www.hudsonreporter.com
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Permalink Reply by Gene on
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Does anyone who negotiates with the unions have any brains at all? Roberts was a Hoboken Fireman and he certainly took good care of his boys on our dollars.
It is past time where we stop all this Let's see what the new Council majority does with this farce.
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Permalink Reply by Jack Dawkins on
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They are unvailing the 2010 budget at tomorrow's council meeting - I wonder if that means there is a tentative agreement on the contracts and if any information will be made available. It wil be interesting.
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Permalink Reply by David on
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The actual report http://www.state.nj.us/sci/pdf/The%20Beat%20Goes%20On.pdf
Hoboken is considered in detail on page 20
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