BY MICHELLE SARTOR - Northern Valley Suburbanite
Demarest municipal employees have gotten raises for 2009.
Council members approved a salary ordinance at the Dec. 7 meeting giving department heads a 3.75 salary increase and a 3 percent raise to other employees. The head of the Department of Public Works and the assistant will receive a 3.5 percent increase.
Councilman Tom Connolly disagreed with a certain portion of the salary ordinance. “I abstain from this vote because I thought one department head deserved more,” he said.
Connolly did not return calls for further comment as of press time.
Other changes were made to the position of chief financial officer. The ordinance granted CFO Maureen Neville five additional work hours per week and eliminated her comp time. She will now work a total of 35 hours per week, seven hours per weekday. Before, she worked four days per week and got additional time off for after-hours activities like attending council meetings.
Connolly was glad the changes were being made to Neville’s position. “I don’t believe in comp time,” he said.
He said as Neville attended evening meetings, the Borough lost her during normal business hours on the four weekdays she worked.
The ordinance passed in a 5-0 vote with Connolly abstaining.
E-mail: sartor@northjersey.com or call 201-894-6703
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