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Setting The Stage For More Hush Money Payments (Using Taxpayers'
Funds, Of Course)
Editor's Note - Time Well Spent: Reprise This Article & The Original
Series On Freeholder Lacey & The Useless Beachwood Administrator's
Job, Then Consult Your Morning Paper For More Data; Then Back To OCP
For • • The REST Of The Story
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Roma |
Beachwood
Councilman Who Passionately Pushed Lacey Administrator Job Is A County
Juvenile Shelter Employee Who Got Salary Increases Twice As Big As
Everybody Else
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Lacey |
Give Us A Break, Jim: Lacey Says Admin Post Is A "Tough" Job; "I Go
Through It; I Know What They Put Me Through" After Useless Crony Job
Is Panned By Media
It's a place to sleep in the daytime,
the useless "administrator" job created by the Beachwood Borough
Council for Republican Freeholder James Lacey a few months ago.
Lacey needed a job because a similar
position he held in Point Pleasant Beach was inconveniently put at
risk when two Democrats took control there after last year's election,
partly because the local government wasted money on the
administrator's job.
Morris Would Accept
Useless $75,000 Election Board Job
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Morris |
But the Beachwood mayor and council were
only too happy to come to the rescue, partially because Mayor Harold
Morris, also a Republican and a card carrying good ole boy, let it be
known he would accept an $85,000 "job" with the county Election Board.
So when it came time, the stampede for
the approval of the Freeholder Lacey appointment was led by Mayor
Morris and a dapper, dynamic and forward-looking councilman, Ronald
Roma.
Roma, it turns out, is a man who has a
high regard for his own future, so he goes out of his way to butter up
to the Republican power structure with assurances of eternal
friendship and a sense of fealty that is at once charming and
unpretentious.
Roma's Meteoric Rise Began
With $30,344 Salary
A county employee, Roma was hired at a
salary of $30,344 in 1994 as the "Supervisor" of Building Services
(whatever that is) in the Juvenile Shelter on Sunset Avenue where the
sun is always rising.
The following year, the freeholders made
Roma "Coordinator of Maintenance Services/Supervisor of Food Services
(whatever that is) at a salary of $$32,753.
The following year, the freeholders made
Roma "Food Services Manager/Supervisor of Food Services (whatever that
is) with a raise of nearly $8000 at a salary of $40,500.
The following year, they took away the
the "Supervisor" part of the "Food Services Manager" job, but they
gave Roma a raise anyway.
Gave Him His Good Ole
Job Back, Let Somebody
Else Do Half Of It, And Gave Roma A $54,988 Salary
Three years later, Roma was making
$47,776, so they "promoted" him back to being "Coordinator of
Maintenance Services" the following year (but without the Supervisor
of Food Services part) and gave him a big salary increase for taking
back his good ole job, so the new salary was pumped up to $54,988.
Now, four years later, Roma is a
councilman in Beachwood and he is still "Coordinator of Maintenance
Services" with a good ole salary, including benefits, of about
$78,000.
And Despite The Shabby
Treatment,
Total Compensation Is Now About $78,000
He has remained assiduously loyal to the
Republican power structure, especially when it was time to show his
loyalty by selling out Beachwood taxpayers by supporting the useless
Freeholder Lacey administrator appointment in Beachwood, a town that,
until this year, didn't even know it needed a $110,000 administrator.
Roma said Beachwood needed an
administrator because the good ole New Jersey League of Municipalities
sent him a pamphlet that said towns like Beachwood should have
administrators.
NJ League Of
Municipalities On Useless Top Ten List
The New Jersey League Of Municipalities
is on the Top Ten List of Useless New Jersey Organizations And
Drinking Societies.
The appointment of Morris is planned for
shortly after the 2005 election because he and the freeholders don't
want to appear grasping and greedy before the election.
"I Know What They Put
Me Through," Says Lacey
Neither does Lacey, who told reporters
Wednesday that being Beachwood administrator, especially when he's
awake, is a "tough job. I go through it; I know what they put me
through," Lacey said.
More on these issues amid the snickers
in the fullness of time.
Consult The Following Lacey-Beachwood Greed Articles:
Plot Thickens On Lacey-Morris
Job Scam
Axis-Of-Greed Surtax Takes Great Leap Higher With Useless Lacey
Appointment In Beachwood
Reprint Of Observer
Editorial of 2/15/05, "The Most Important Observer Editorial Of The
Last Five Years
This article originally prepared for publication
June 18, 2005.
The article is updated and re-published
August 5, 2005
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