>Village moves to a merit based pay system
the Staff of the Ridgewood blog
The Village council put into effect a merit based pay system this week putting management, non-union and supervisor’s salaries on merit based system rather than the customary 4 percent automatic pay raises .
This new pay increase method more closely matches the private sector, and has attracted interest from other municipalities looking to learn how the Village put this new merit based system in place. .
The lone dissenting opinion on the council came from Paul Aronsohn who publicly expressed concerns about giving any raises while the Village had laid off so many last year.
Although sources tell us that Aronsohn who ‘s pro union views are no secret to anyone is setting himself up for a move up in the state Democratic machine and supporting any merit based pay system for state workers would run contrary to his goals.
Several residents also voiced skepticism over granting any raises to anyone in theses difficult economic times especially when the primary focus should be to rain in all the run a way spending in the Village.
