Tiger Team : Establish a Five-Year Staffing Strategy
Mayor Paul Aronsohn says he does not support layoffs to realize no tax increase but during the election he called for 0% tax increase. So which is it Mr. Mayor the taxpayers or the unions?
The Village should establish a five- year staffing plan that incorporates anticipated attrition, compensation rates for new hires, outsourcing, civilianization opportunities and modeling of efficient staffing levels. Personnel costs, staffing levels, and service offerings are some of the main drivers of the excessive operating costs of the Village. Historically, when one Village employee retires, another is hired as a replacement with little or no attempt to reengineer other employees’ duties to consolidate positions or reduce cost.
Across the Village, a significant number of employees are near or currently eligible for full-time retirement benefits. These long-term employees are at the highest end of the pay scale and it is critical for Village management to evaluate the cost-benefit for them to continue working for the Village or attempt to accelerate their retirements and replace them, if necessary, with lower cost employees . This must be facilitated under collective bargaining agreements . In order to properly evaluate this, the concessions from existing employees, as well as the terms of contracts for new hires must be known. There fore, this analysis should be performed in conjunction with collective bargaining agreement negotiations, in collaboration with
the FOB, and in alignment with the Strategic Financial Plan.
The manner in which services are delivered must be closely evaluated for every service offering throughout the Village. If the Board of Education can save hundreds of thousands of dollars by terminating the use of Village services and outsourcing them, it is only logical that the Village itself could save significantly larger amounts by doing the same. As referenced throughout this report, Village management must carefully evaluate the cost-
benefit of outsourcing the delivery of all service offerings.
The analysis of all of these components requires coordination among numerous departments and Village management. In order to more effectively manage future personnel levels and compensation / benefit costs, in terms of the immediate and long – term impact , the committee believes it is critical for management to develop a five-year staffing plan
So with all this detail where is the cost saving dollar amount? It is easy to tell someone how they can do better. What is the plan and what are the savings?
It stands to reason that a dollar savings cannot be determined until the Village knows exactly what the specific retirement attrition will be (normal and accerarated) and exactly which of those employees do not need to be replaced. Thus, a staffing STRATEGY is required before we can know the savings.
It stands to reason that anyone can offer these little chestnuts as savings. How about automatic lights in the bathrooms? Dont upgrade computers, no village cars can be taken home……
stop buying land we don’t need and can not take care of.
#3 If I’m not mistaken the land holdings #4 refers to cost in the millions of dollars in spite of the grants that were applied for. In my mind( I don’t want to put words in your mouth) These expenditures were not chestnuts. I think you should compare the cost of removing these properties from the tax roles with cutting employee wages and reducing services. If the value of realestate climbs the revenue loss will climb incrementally. This is to prevent affordable housing ( coah , mt laurel ) being built in the Willard section of town. The grants were applied for the highway property to the best of my knowlledge the horsefarm on hillcrest was solely on the back of the taxpayer.
this is not about union’s you jerk. this is about service that we all pay for. all dept’s are under staff at this time. if all of us are crying about taxes.then we need to close the fire dept’s. and let valley do the call’s. and start a north bergen fire dept. every town should not go out and spend a mill on a new truck. every town don’t need a fire dept.
this is all about power.
#6 do think we will save money by replacing volunteer firemen with paid people?????? Rwd has the only paid dept so if you want to regionalize you will have to pay the surrounding volunteers I’m sure the surrounding towns will sign right up for that!!!!!!!. Rwd could never field a volunteer squad Because it’s too much of a bedroom communty . We have paid ambulance drivers during the day to supplement the vol amb corp. Now you want to get rid of the fd. as well your plan doesn’t sound viable to me. This has nothing to do with unions.
are you high, this is not about union’s. you don’t get. the top dog’s are just out of the loop.
#8 who said anything about unions maybey you the one who’s high?