Post by novillero on Feb 27, 2009 11:36:29 GMT -5
Consolidation may start to sound good for both sides...
11 will be laid off in Freehold Twp.
By Kim Predham • FREEHOLD BUREAU • February 27, 2009
FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP — Eleven employees will be laid off and another nine positions will be eliminated, under a plan to be submitted to the state, township officials announced Thursday.
The cuts — combined with eight jobs eliminated last year — would reduce the township's work force by about 10 percent, according to Township Administrator Thomas Antus.
The jobs being eliminated will include three police officers, six positions in the Department of Public Works and the Recycling Center, two positions in Parks and Recreation and nine office, administrative and technical jobs, officials said.
Under civil service regulations, employees with the least seniority in their departments will be affected by the layoffs.
Of the 11 people who will be laid off, two will be code enforcement officers and three will be the police officers. A secretary who had worked at the Community Counseling Center, which closed in January, is also among those being laid off, Antus said.
A public works laborer and clerical and administrative employees in the municipal court, engineering and planning and zoning departments will be laid off as well, Antus said.
The nine jobs to be eliminated are either already vacant or will become vacant this year through retirements. These include Dennis Makarowski, the director of the Community Counseling Center. They also include the assistant director of public works, two recycling center employees, a public works laborer, a road supervisor, the assistant supervisor of Parks and Recreation, a recreation maintenance worker and a fire prevention specialist, Antus said.
The decision to eliminate jobs is one of several measures planned this year by township officials, who are dealing with declines in revenues, such as construction fees. State aid cuts are expected, and the township is limited in how much it can raise the municipal tax levy, Antus said.
"We need to match expenses with revenues," Antus said.
Officials will also cut operating expenses across the board, Assistant Township Administrator Peter Valesi said. "Sweeping" reductions in overtime costs are being made, he added.
Employee tuition reimbursement will be limited as well, if an ordinance introduced by the Township Committee on Tuesday is adopted. Employees would only be paid back for mandated courses and seminars under the new ordinance, Antus said.
And more cuts could be on their way, depending on the amount of aid the state decides to give the township, Antus said.
Kim Predham:
(732) 308-7752 or
kpredham@app.com
www.app.com/article/20090227/NEWS01/902270369/1004/NEWS01
11 will be laid off in Freehold Twp.
By Kim Predham • FREEHOLD BUREAU • February 27, 2009
FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP — Eleven employees will be laid off and another nine positions will be eliminated, under a plan to be submitted to the state, township officials announced Thursday.
The cuts — combined with eight jobs eliminated last year — would reduce the township's work force by about 10 percent, according to Township Administrator Thomas Antus.
The jobs being eliminated will include three police officers, six positions in the Department of Public Works and the Recycling Center, two positions in Parks and Recreation and nine office, administrative and technical jobs, officials said.
Under civil service regulations, employees with the least seniority in their departments will be affected by the layoffs.
Of the 11 people who will be laid off, two will be code enforcement officers and three will be the police officers. A secretary who had worked at the Community Counseling Center, which closed in January, is also among those being laid off, Antus said.
A public works laborer and clerical and administrative employees in the municipal court, engineering and planning and zoning departments will be laid off as well, Antus said.
The nine jobs to be eliminated are either already vacant or will become vacant this year through retirements. These include Dennis Makarowski, the director of the Community Counseling Center. They also include the assistant director of public works, two recycling center employees, a public works laborer, a road supervisor, the assistant supervisor of Parks and Recreation, a recreation maintenance worker and a fire prevention specialist, Antus said.
The decision to eliminate jobs is one of several measures planned this year by township officials, who are dealing with declines in revenues, such as construction fees. State aid cuts are expected, and the township is limited in how much it can raise the municipal tax levy, Antus said.
"We need to match expenses with revenues," Antus said.
Officials will also cut operating expenses across the board, Assistant Township Administrator Peter Valesi said. "Sweeping" reductions in overtime costs are being made, he added.
Employee tuition reimbursement will be limited as well, if an ordinance introduced by the Township Committee on Tuesday is adopted. Employees would only be paid back for mandated courses and seminars under the new ordinance, Antus said.
And more cuts could be on their way, depending on the amount of aid the state decides to give the township, Antus said.
Kim Predham:
(732) 308-7752 or
kpredham@app.com
www.app.com/article/20090227/NEWS01/902270369/1004/NEWS01
