When Dan Williamson became director in 2012, he got a handsome package of pay and perks, though less than that of original director Eric Watson.
Read about Dan Williamson's contract contrasted with Watson's here.
There is a City Council agenda-fixing session at 7:30 p.m. in Municipal Court. I don't think I can do both. Somebody else may have to get the PMUA story.
--Bernice
It's always about what the executive receives. What about the frontline workers who make less than a worker at Mickey Ds !!! Mr . X
ReplyDeleteWhat about them? Maybe they should go get a job at Mickey Ds. Oh, that's right, he can't because of his criminal record. I guess his record is everyone elses fault too.
DeleteSo based on your position Jesus is not even worthy to work at pmua either because he was charged and convicted also. X
DeleteIm not talking about jesus. You are complaining about the wages at the pmua, if they are not happy , then make a change and go somewhere else and if Mickey will pay more then go there. I am saying that if jesus or anyone else will accept the wages it is okay for them to work there. Where can you go and dictate to the boss what he will pay you? Stop complaining about the wages and do what makes them happy.
DeleteJesus never did all that complaining
DeleteYou don't think so? You don't know the historical Jesus.
DeleteWell, Mr. X. Perhaps you should ask Jerry Green - the person you support - about that. The workers are getting the shaft because of Jerry's kids - Dunn and Sanders.
DeleteUntil you stop taking the Jerry Cool Aid, I really don't have much sympathy for you.
Nobody can report its a closed session remember .
ReplyDeleteThey may "take possible action" when they come out. Two items: Appointment of Executive Director and Authorize Additional Signatory.
DeleteThere are a host of differences between the manner in which a private corporation operates and the manner in which the PMUA operates. The PMUA, because it is a public Agency, is burdened by mandates requiring it to maintain a host of records and audits that a private organization is not burdened with. Putting these aside a private company has an executive staff with the ability to perform a great deal of the work that the PMUA farms out to consultants. They do this for 2 reasons, their own executives are incapable of performing the work, and/or they want to blame someone else if the decision under study proves to be flawed. A typical corporation for example, would make it own budgets, it would not have a budget consultant. A PO would determine its own rates. It would not have a rate consultant. If a private company chose to perform and audit it would hire a competent auditing firm and the cost would be in the order of 1/2 what the PMUA pays its accounytant. The PMUA paid an outside consultant to do a cost study of its major equipment. A private company would perform this with its own personnel. If the private company didn't understand how equipment depreciates, when its time to trade it in and buy new, when to lease as contrasted to buy, etc., it wouldn't survive. No private company would have paid the rent that the PMUA paid is paying for their rented office space. A private outfit would have consolidated their operations, purchased a suitable central location, or set up a trailer park and put the entire operation including the Sewer Yard now on Cottage Place on the Rock Avenue site. When I examined the records several years ago I found that the PMUA had during the previous year paid 4 different Real Estate Consultants for their service. No property was bought or sold. They paid , from memory, 4 different law firms for services. How do you get in so much trouble that you need 4 sets of lawyers? No private company would have given a Watson and Ervin the sweetheart contracts they had. They certainly wouldn't have collapsed and given Watson and Ervin a million dollars after spending $111,000 for a legal defense and then throwing their own organization and the people of Plainfield under the bus by conceding defeat when victory was perhaps another week away. The wouldn't have spent $68,000 in legal defense in attempt to deny Jim Perry. the former Chief Financial Officer, what he was unambiguously entitled to under his contract, only to lose the case and pay and pay him in the end, etc. We can hope that the new leadership is good for the personnel, and the public. That it brings an enthusiasm, looks under the sheets, and organizes the operations as if were a profit motivated company.
ReplyDeleteBill Kruse
The pmua will never run like a profit motivated company so get that thought out of your mind. It will always be a political football that the politicians will use to their benefit. That is why the rate is so high. Everyone has to get paid. Mayor Mapp is in control of the PMUA now since Jerry lost control. The rate will not decrease, it may even increase since the mayor owes favors also.
DeleteThe thought never entered my mind. But, they could do a great deal better. Bill Kruse
DeleteWhat an absolute disaster brought upon the City these past years .... by the Democratic Party. I am so glad I got out of the City.
ReplyDeleteWe can run from Plainfield, but its harder to run from the country. The Federal government isn't much better. The 19 trillion debt is not sustainable .We are approaching the tipping point.
Deletebecause republicans are doing soooooo much better with our schools
DeleteAs long as the ghetto is running the show -- it will continue to go downhill.
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