Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Freeholder Whelen meets the Public

I went to Millville First’s Tuesday night (Feb 10th 2009) meeting featuring Freeholder Whelan. He filled in for Lou Magazzu. Whelan gets high marks for being a nice guy and someone who is taking his job as a freeholder very seriously. His problem is that there is a lot he doesn’t know.
There were questions about the salary of the Cumberland College not just the president, whose salary was reported at $250K, but other top administrators as well.
I found myself agreeing with Mr. Porecca one of the heads of Millville First. There is also County Watchdog group headed by Cindy Zirkle. She seems to have her eye on the ball. Stay tuned

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

The Dems have hurt themselves with all this salary nonsense. Instead of tackling real issues, they ran on a platform of salary cuts for Surrogate and Sheriff positions and thus shined a light on every single employment on the government payroll. Should be interesting to see if they shift gears now, considering that's all they harped on for the entire election rather than worrying about the increase in county spending and, obviously, the tax rate.

I also find it hard to attack Ender's salary. As has been stated in the past, he's been offered more money at other locations and I'm glad, even with the pricetag, that he's decided to stick it out here.

In the past decade, I think I read in the Press, the county college has grown 75-percent, or so. That's amazing. And, of course NJSTARS and other scholarships help, but if that did all the work than all of the county schools across the state would have experienced huge growth as well. Aside from a few, they haven't.

Anonymous said...

Apparently former Sheriff Baruzza proposed saving the county $100,000 by his office’s assumption of additional responsibilities as jail warden. Why did the county reject this proposal and is now preparing to hire a new jail warden? Good question. All Whelan could say was that the jail is an important place and needs to be taken care o