Little Silver Mayor Bob Neff alone in the council chamber for the governing body’s first virtual meeting in April. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.)
By JOHN T. WARD
Little Silver plans to thank public employees for their extra efforts in the COVID-19 pandemic with $500 bonuses.
The payments, as well as new police salaries, are up for consideration by the borough council at its virtual meeting Monday night.
Borough facilities will reopen Tuesday, Shehady said. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.)
By JOHN T. WARD
Red Bank’s borough hall was closed Monday without public notice.
In response to redbankgreen inquiry Monday afternoon, Business Administrator Ziad Shehady said the shutdown was effective “just today” and imposed “as an added safety precaution after the holidays.”
Assemblyman Declan O’Scanlon.
A war of words between state legislators and Red Bank officials over recent pay raises for borough employees continued yesterday.
Twelfth-district Assemblyman Declan O’Scanlon, a Little Silver Republican, fired back at the all-Democrat Red Bank Council with a letter that challenged the fiscal sense of granting annualized 3-percent salary and wage increases to non-unionized workers.
“We understand that Red Bank municipal employees are hard-working individuals and it would be wonderful if they could all get raises,” O’Scanlon writes in the letter, which was shared with redbankgreen late Wednesday. “But that simply isn’t prudent – and sends the wrong message to our constituents – when the people paying the bills are making less, or losing their jobs all together.”
So far, the GOP three have made no public mention of the two-year, 6-percent increases the borough previously granted to the two unions it bargains with: the Policemens Benevolent Association and the Communication Workers of America.