County Executive Donovan and BCC President Dr. B. Kaye Walter Meet and Greet Students at Bergen Community College’s first day of the new semester.
Bergen County Executive Donovan demands that utility board members repay stipends
SEPTEMBER 16, 2014, 9:23 PM LAST UPDATED: TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2014, 9:23 PM
BY JOHN C. ENSSLIN
STAFF WRITER
THE RECORD
Bergen County Executive Kathleen Donovan demanded on Tuesday that five members of a utility board repay stipends and benefits they collected despite her repeated attempts to veto the compensation.
She formally asked for the repayment in hand-delivered letters sent to five commissioners of the Northwest Bergen County Utilities Authority, which oversees a sewer system for 11 Bergen County towns.
Her staff calculated that the $5,000-a-year stipend amounts to $13,500 per commissioner over the nearly three-year period in which the payments were in dispute.
Donovan also asked the entire nine-member board — including the commissioners she appointed who did not accept compensation — to pass a resolution demanding that the money be returned to the authority.
“I strongly urge the NBCUA commissioners, after several years of receiving illegal benefits to do the right thing now: pass the appropriate resolution; and return the stipends and benefits they wrongfully paid themselves,” she wrote.
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