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Ridgewood pay ordinances postponed over council concerns
Saturday, January 19, 2013
BY CHRIS HARRIS
STAFF WRITER
The Record
RIDGEWOOD — Two proposed ordinances affecting village employees’ salaries through the end of 2013 were tabled this week amid questions and concerns from council members.
If adopted, the ordinances would set salaries for non-union staffers and management for 2013.
However, those same employees — except Village Manager Kenneth Gabbert — could earn up to 1.9 percent in performance-based bonus pay at the end of 2013.
The village enacted a similar ordinance in 2011 that eliminated automatic cost-of-living raises that year and introduced a system inspired by the private sector.
Mayor Paul Aronsohn said the new ordinance would be retroactive to 2012.
The ordinances would not affect unionized workers, officials said.
The pay agreements for all village employees need to be restructured. Adding this without considering whether an employee’s base pay is too low, too high or approximately right, makes no sense. Also, why would Aronsohn want this to be retroactive to 2012? Last year is already in the books. This just seems like a way for Aronsohn to win favor with certain employees. Whatever the outcome of this is, it should not be retroactive.
When are we going to wake up and stop giving money away that we can’t afford and do not have?
any one making over 100 grand in town should not get a pay raise in 2012 or 13.