On Tuesday, Brigantine voted to ditch a once popular public safety director position for 3 chiefs. Overtime payouts, an arbiters ruling & contract negotiations are still a problem though. City employee costs account for 2/3 of Brigantine’s budget. According to Wallace McKelvey & Press of Atlantic City: Last year, the fire chiefs position was offered to someone in house, but it was turned it down. The Fire Department ( still in negotiations ) still has not responded to the citys proposal. The process has been so difficult, Blumenthal said, because the contracts and their associated costs are a legacy of prior administrations. But their burden will be passed on indefinitely until the contracts can be amended. The use of past practices as a rationale for keeping costly contract provisions may hurt the city, she said. Kudo’s to the Brigantine Police Department for moving very close to an end of negotiations Read Full Story by Wallace McKelvey in The Press of Atlantic City
Posted on: Thu, 15 May 2014 15:16:26 +0000
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