{"id":33426,"date":"2016-12-28T17:51:31","date_gmt":"2016-12-28T22:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brigantinenow.com\/?p=33426"},"modified":"2018-06-02T06:35:04","modified_gmt":"2018-06-02T10:35:04","slug":"65-brigantine-tax-dollars-go-public-employee-compensation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brigantinenow.com\/65-brigantine-tax-dollars-go-public-employee-compensation\/","title":{"rendered":"65% of Brigantine Tax Dollars Go To Public Employee Compensation"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_33427\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33427\" style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-33427 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/brigantinenow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/brig-morgan-moneyrf4rff-700x336.jpg\" alt=\"brigantine phil guenther andy simpson platt tim reed corruption\" width=\"700\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brigantinenow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/brig-morgan-moneyrf4rff-700x336.jpg 700w, https:\/\/brigantinenow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/brig-morgan-moneyrf4rff-300x144.jpg 300w, https:\/\/brigantinenow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/brig-morgan-moneyrf4rff-20x10.jpg 20w, https:\/\/brigantinenow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/brig-morgan-moneyrf4rff.jpg 730w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-33427\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Life on the rock.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Brigantine Taxpayers Association published their annual recap and review of city expenditures. Even as most cities in New Jersey are downsizing, Brigantine is still the one town where it&#8217;s &#8216;business as usual&#8217;. Let&#8217;s review&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>About 65% of Brigantine&#8217;s municipal budget is set aside for public employee salaries. 2016 City payroll exceeds $11 million. Brigantine municipal tax rate increased 62% from 2010 to 2016<\/p>\n<p>Brigantine has a declining population, somewhere in the vicinity of 9,000 full-time residents. Some reports suggest that number is much lower. Brigantine added four new employees over the past year. All within public safety<\/p>\n<h2>32 Brigantine employees have a salary of $100,000 or more.<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Longevity Bonus (getting paid for showing up) isn\u2019t &#8216;frozen&#8217; as originally promised. It&#8217;s still accruing for those hired before Jan 1, 2015.<\/li>\n<li>In 2016, longevity bonus payments to public union employees cost Brigantine taxpayers $355,000.<\/li>\n<li>Brigantine public union employees have 12 paid holidays. Excessive when compared to private sector.<\/li>\n<li>Brigantine employees still accrue personal & sick days from year to year. They don&#8217;t have to &#8216;use it or lose it.&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>Brigantine taxpayers still give out &#8216;BOAT CHECKS&#8217; to retiring employees.<\/li>\n<li>Employees who don\u2019t use sick days are given two additional comp days the following year.<\/li>\n<li>In 2016, taxpayers paid $2,350,000 for employee group health.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Brigantine still over-pays for job responsibilities. \u00a0Uses highly-paid firefighter as city&#8217;s fire official: Mayor Guenther&#8217;s brother-in-law,\u00a0<strong>Bill Baldwin.\u00a0<\/strong>Mr. Baldwin is\u00a0also the husband of a very well-paid Brigantine school employee.<\/li>\n<li>Take a look at <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/brigantinenow.com\/brigantine-council-oks-big-raise-for-fire-department-buys-icemaker-for-mad-dog-morgan\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mr. Baldwin\u2019s Brigantine FD 2016 comp package here<\/a>:\u00a0<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li>$122,000+ base pay<\/li>\n<li>4 day work week at 36 hrs pr week.<\/li>\n<li>8 full weeks of vacation<\/li>\n<li>180 hrs of Sick Time<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"text_exposed_show\">6 Paid Holidays<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"text_exposed_show\">2 Bonus days &\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"text_exposed_show\">1 Personal day<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"text_exposed_show\">12% base pay raise & continued l<\/span><span class=\"text_exposed_show\">ongevity bonus<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"text_exposed_show\">Full health care w\/ very limited contribution<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"text_exposed_show\">Health care contributions avoided for past 4 years<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"text_exposed_show\">Cadillac tax picked up by taxpayers in 2018<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"text_exposed_show\">Pension<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Pension Pain.<\/strong> Due to record high costs associated with Brigantine Public Safety, taxpayers spent $1.6 million in 2016, for contributions to the police and firemen\u2019s retirement system.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>WATCH VIDEO. City Council talks compensation for Mayor&#8217;s brother-in-law.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NiFFrR_CXCM?rel=0&controls=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Brigantine Taxpayers Association published their annual recap and review of city expenditures. Even as most cities in New Jersey are downsizing, Brigantine is still the one town where it&#8217;s &#8216;business as usual&#8217;. Let&#8217;s review&#8230;. 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About 65% of Brigantine&#8217;s municipal budget is set aside for public employee salaries. 2016 City [&hellip;]","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2mlcR-8H8","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brigantinenow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33426"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brigantinenow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brigantinenow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brigantinenow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brigantinenow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brigantinenow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brigantinenow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brigantinenow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brigantinenow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brigantinenow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}