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Fiure Offers Correction For OCP Story On Proliferation Of
"Confidential Aide" Hirings
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Councilman Michael Fiure |
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Mayor Paul Brush
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Emphasizes
The TOWNSHIP, Not The County, Is Paying His Health Benefits As An
Elected Official
Mayor Brush Said Eliminating Medical Benefits For Council Members Is
"Cost Cutting Measure #1"; But He Shut Up About It When Fiure Got The
County Job
Toms
River: Township
Councilman Michael Fiure has asked for a correction in an
OCP story entitled
"Pricking The Dover Township Fig Leaves - Part II." The story said the
cost of lawyer Fiure's new "Confidential Aide"
job in the County Parks Department, "including benefits," is $100,000.
Whacking Local
Taxpayers, Not The County
Fiure told
OCP he wants to make sure
everybody knows he is whacking local taxpayers, not the county, for
the benefits, which cost about $12,000 over and above his part time
salary of $8900. The article included the following two paragraphs on
Fiure's new job:
"Fiure Gets $100,000 "Confidential" Aide Appointment
"Newly elected
Councilman Michael Fiure was appointed by the Republican Board of
Freeholders as "Confidential" Aide in the county parks departments
after Freeholder John Bartlett said it would be a good idea for the
county to have another lawyer on the payroll.
"Fiure's
"Confidential" Aide compensation, including benefits, is approximately
$100,000 plus $8900 more for being a councilman."
We Apologize For The Mistake: Correction Is As Follows:
Fiure's
"Confidential" Aide compensation, including benefits, is about
$86,000 plus about $20,900 in additional compensation, including
benefits, for being a councilman in Dover Township.
Brush Wanted To Eliminate Benefits For Council Members
Mayor Paul Brush's "#1 Cost Cutting Measure" according to several
large advertisements published in the Ocean County Observer and the
Asbury Park Press just prior to the 2003 election, was to "eliminate
medical benefits for the Mayor and Council."
Mayor Shut Up As Seventeen Lawyers Were Hired By Township
But the mayor
shut up about the "#1 cost cutting measure" and all of the other cost
cutting measures as he and the council (including Fiure) proceeded to
hire nearly every politically-connected attorney in the Ocean County
yellow pages to start off the new year with a flourish of creative
spending.
Tax Increase Only Rumors
There are rumors
of a modest tax increase in Dover Township this year. Those of our
readers who wish to reprise the article that has now been corrected
can do so by clicking as follows:
Pricking The Dover Twp. Fig
Leaves Part II
by Esther Van Steenberg/OCP TR Staff -
For Publication June 1, 2004
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