Fire Fighters Paid Through Nov. 30; No Special Council Meeting Planned
All city employees will be able to get paid in time if the city council passes the line item transfers on December 7.
The Hoboken City Council will not have to meet before its regularly scheduled meeting on Dec. 7 to approve the move of roughly $2 million in line items, Mayor Dawn Zimmer said recently.
After the Hoboken City Council was not able to move roughly $2 million in line items in the budget, the city anticipated that it could not pay its fire fighters.
Zimmer said that the fire fighters will be paid through Nov. 30. A vote on Dec. 7 to move the line items will be in time to pay all employees salaries and wages, the mayor said.
Without approval of the change on Dec. 7—for which the mayor needs six votes, one more than the five-vote majority she currently holds—the fire fighters might not be paid after all for the last month of the year.
The four members of the council minority voted against reallocating the money in the budget, because they said they didn't have enough information to cast the vote.
Zimmer said she is putting together an information packet for the council members.
Earlier this month Councilman Michael Russo, a member of the council minority, asked the city clerk for "changes in each Salary and Wages line item from the initial budget vs. current proposed line item transfers" in an email. He also asked for an increase in all professional service contracts.
After the line item transfers were voted down the first time, Business Administrator Arch Liston said he would contact the state to ask for a solution. Zimmer also wrote the state, asking how to move the line items.
Hobbs
3:26 pm on Wednesday, November 30, 2011
The truly sad part is line item transfers are very common in every municipality, company and even family budgets and this divisive political stun tby Castellano, Mason, Russo and Occhipinti never needed to or should have happened.
We are talking a about line item transfers of less than 2% of the tearly total budget in December,
It is just another example of their negativity and attempts to make an issue to attack the Zimmer Administration where none really exists.
As we have seen at the last City Council meetings when all their last minute questions programed to grandstand for the TV cameras were ansewerd in detail the still refused a poaitive vote. They don't really want information they just want to grandstand, obstruct and cause as much chaos as the possibly can, Theit will never be enough information for them to vote to do the right thing for Hoboken.\
Prepare for Mason, Russo & Co, usual mudslinging, lame conspiricy theories, half truths and whole lies to try to justify their actions.
They continue to harm Hoboken to play their petty political games.
FAP
4:03 pm on Wednesday, November 30, 2011
November 30th is today, I wonder how they feel about the possibility of not getting paid for tomorrow's work.
borninhobo
7:38 pm on Wednesday, November 30, 2011
FAP- you don't have to wonder because the fd will get paid no matter what according to state statute>> HOBBS- you are right on grandstanding for the tv...i think they know that all of the oldschool players have quit their team and if they can make it seem like they are the ones that saved the day people will once again vote for the two faces they all have but low and behold they're in for a rude awakening when the next election rolls around and all of the oldschool people are on the other side..[other side meaning the side that at least has the walls to face the people with one face not two......
mcgato
9:53 pm on Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Maybe Mason will do a late night negotiation to get a minority board seat on the end of year shift of monies council. Then she will trumpet it to the masses.
Scott M. Siegel
1:17 pm on Thursday, December 1, 2011
They deserve their money. Playing politricks with them is disgusting.