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Origanalist
05-06-2014, 08:47 AM
http://www.northjersey.com/polopoly_fs/1.1009382.1399334650!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/box_650/new-milford-police-chief-frank-papapietro.jpg

(New Milford’s population is 16,400.)

EW MILFORD — Police Chief Frank Papapietro is slated to take home more than $300,000 in pay this year, including nearly $110,000 in one-time payouts for vacation and accumulated sick days, according to a contract approved last week.

Not included in this year’s payout is more than $48,000 in unpaid compensatory time — 539 hours — which Papapietro has racked up in 13 years as chief, and which he asked to be postponed in light of a recent state comptroller’s investigation that found towns had improperly awarded payouts.

“Comp time,” which many governing bodies use in place of overtime, has come under particular scrutiny in recent weeks amid reports of costly public employee retirements.

Papapietro’s renewed contract, which takes effect Jan. 1, 2015 and expires Oct. 17, 2019, freezes his compensatory time. Papapietro, who has been with the police department since 1978, had accrued 336 sick days before they were frozen at the end of 2008 at that year’s rate, according to the contract, along with 76 holidays, according to borough records.

“I don’t know any chief that gets paid overtime,” Papapietro said. “Comp time is an issue throughout the state, but now people are starting to come to grips with it. Officers started taking comp time instead of overtime, and now all these bills are becoming due.”

Papapietro is not retiring, but New Milford — like other cash-strapped towns — has been paying off these obligations in pieces.

“We thought it was in the best interest of taxpayers to pre-pay some of it so we didn’t get hit with it all at once,” said Mayor Ann Subrizi.

The payouts have been questioned by several council members, most vocally Councilman Austin Ashley, who criticized the borough’s handling of Papapietro’s contract and what he called “gray areas” of accrued time.

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oyarde
05-06-2014, 09:03 AM
Closest city near me , (probably at least three times larger than the one mentioned here) , as an example , this guys salary is over three times the Mayors salary in that town near me .I imagine the council should be unhappy with the contract.

tod evans
05-06-2014, 09:05 AM
http://www.twowheelforum.com/images/smilies/hang.gif Get a rope! :mad:

oyarde
05-06-2014, 09:08 AM
300k a yr for a police Ch. for a village of 16k.

tod evans
05-06-2014, 09:08 AM
300k a yr for a police Ch. for a village of 16k.

By golly they're safe!

Origanalist
05-06-2014, 09:12 AM
By golly they're safe!

For that kind of protection money, I hope so. Maybe they should get a MRAP just to make sure.

tod evans
05-06-2014, 09:14 AM
For that kind of protection money, I hope so. Maybe they should get a MRAP just to make sure.

Two!

Maybe a Huey too....

HOLLYWOOD
05-06-2014, 09:21 AM
See what happens when you run a organized Mafioso crime syndicate...

Henry Rogue
05-06-2014, 09:35 AM
Even mobsters extorting people via the protection racket, know enough not to bankrupt their victims, else the well runs dry.

oyarde
05-06-2014, 09:53 AM
Accepting a three figure salary for that job is immoral.So the council should just make it somewhere in the 80's when this guy retires and that weeds out the obviously immoral.

asurfaholic
05-06-2014, 10:10 AM
300k a yr for a police Ch. for a village of 16k.

"$300,000 in pay this year, including nearly $110,000 in one-time payouts for vacation and accumulated sick days"

So its more like $190k in salary/yr. plus about $8500/yr in benefits that was all paid out this year.

If that helps ease the mind any..

Origanalist
05-06-2014, 10:15 AM
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