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More calls for reform of Port Authority; N.J. legislators criticize heavy overtime
December 26, 2014, 11:18 PM Last updated: Saturday, December 27, 2014, 10:13 AM
By JOHN REITMEYER, DUSTIN RACIOPPI and ABBOTT KOLOFF
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The Record
Staggering amounts of overtime at the Port Authority, especially in the police ranks, underscore widespread mismanagement and the need for greater oversight of the bi-state agency, which has come under critical scrutiny since the George Washington Bridge lane-closings scandal last year, state lawmakers said Friday.
The reactions followed a report by The Record that 131 agency employees, most of them police officers, earned so much overtime pay through September that they more than doubled their salaries. Thirteen officers earned more than the executive director, whose annual salary is $289,000, with the top 10 overtime earners, all police, averaging an estimated 46 hours of overtime per week.
“It just points out another example of the lack of management that has gone on there over the last number of years,” said state Sen. Loretta Weinberg, the Teaneck Democrat who is co-chairwoman of the joint legislative committee investigating the 2013 bridge lane closures. She said that “people just don’t function if they’ve worked too many hours straight.”
Liquor-license law needs reform, developers say
JULY 31, 2014 LAST UPDATED: THURSDAY, JULY 31, 2014, 1:21 AM
BY LINDA MOSS
STAFF WRITER
THE RECORD
* Real estate developer in North Jersey says make laws fair
NEW BRUNSWICK — Calling current liquor laws outdated and inequitable, members of the commercial real estate industry are working to reform the process in a way that won’t penalize business owners who already have a license, which in some cases can cost millions of dollars.
“The license holders are the beneficiaries of the monopoly,” George Jacobs, a principal of Clifton-based Jacobs Enterprises Inc., told an audience of about 100 real estate officials Wednesday. “We’re trying figure out compensation schemes where these guys will not be hurt, but economic development can be stimulated.”
Jacobs was part of a panel that the New Jersey chapter of NAIOP, a commercial real estate trade group, held at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University in New Brunswick.
Jacobs, who presented a 30-page report on restaurant-consumption liquor licenses in New Jersey in 2011 at the meeting, outlined what the industry is doing to bring change to liquor-license laws. He also explained why the status quo poses challenges to developers, supermarkets and restaurateurs.
“The law breeds corruption, inefficiency, delay and costs,” he said.
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