Grabberts Ouster to cost Village Taxpayers $46,250
August 7,2013
Ridgewood NJ, It was confirmed at the conclusion of Wednesday’s Village Council meeting – Aronsohn, Hauck, and Pucciarelli will vote to oust Village Manager Ken Gabbert by resolution during next week’s public meeting. Riche and Walsh are expected to vote no on the resolution.
Ousting Gabbert will cost Ridgewood’s taxpayers at least $46,250 in termination compensation payment, as per State statue (minimum 3 months pay for involuntary separation). The 3 Amigos may agree to pay him more, just to avoid a lawsuit.
So Aronsohn balked at giving Gabbert a 12% raise, but thinks nothing of shelling out over $45K in termination compensation (maybe more) just because he doesn’t like the guy’s political party affiliation?
Aronsohn should be the one being fired, not Gabbert.
Gabbert should have been fired long ago.
Now let me see…. that sounds like a bargain to me.
Unfortunately the council has to work within the system that the legislature created and refuses to change. Although 70% of us are at-will employees that can be fired for no reason, those on the public dole are afforded many more “rights” and they constantly ask for more through their powerful unions and lobbyists.
#3 maybe you should unionize your business?
#4…unlike yourself, I’m not making this a personal issue. Public employees should not have more rights than the majority of people that fund their salary and benefits.
Once again we have Aronsohn, Pucciarelli & Hauck voting in a block. I find this kind of cronyism to be disturbing since each of these 3 has a personal agenda that seems to be guaranteed support by a majority in the Council. Probably legal, but definitely troubling.
It will be interesting to see what happens if the Valley expansion comes to a Council vote. Hauck continues to refuse to recuse herself and Aronsohn is asking tough questions at the Planning Board hearings. Could this be the end of the pre-packaged majority or is our Mayor just posturing?
PLEASE start asking around town for independent thinkers with no ax to grind to consider running for council in the spring. Council Election Day (yes, another one) is only 9 months away.
If they don’t, and if Mr. Riche and/or Ms. Walsh (whose terms will expire next year) choose not to run again (who could blame them?), the mayor will find one or two more cronies to do his bidding. Even if they do run, the White Horse machine might get others elected in their place.
Then he’d have a 4-0 or 5-0 “majority” for ANYTHING HE WANTED through at least mid-2016, with a hand-selected Village Manager to do his bidding. How does that sound?
Yeah, scary. Find people to run who aren’t tied to special interests. Pleeeeze.