{"id":24550,"date":"2024-10-25T05:48:21","date_gmt":"2024-10-25T09:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=24550"},"modified":"2024-10-25T05:48:21","modified_gmt":"2024-10-25T09:48:21","slug":"brick-township-council-approves-2025-fire-commissioner-salaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2024\/10\/brick-township-council-approves-2025-fire-commissioner-salaries\/","title":{"rendered":"Brick Township Council Approves 2025 Fire Commissioner Salaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_21959\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/brick_marsh_fire_april_2023_1078-scaled.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21959\" class=\"size-large wp-image-21959\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/brick_marsh_fire_april_2023_1078-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Marshland singed by a brush fire, April 11, 2023, in Brick Township, N.J. (Photo: Shorebeat)\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/brick_marsh_fire_april_2023_1078-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/brick_marsh_fire_april_2023_1078-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/brick_marsh_fire_april_2023_1078-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/brick_marsh_fire_april_2023_1078-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/brick_marsh_fire_april_2023_1078-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-21959\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marshland singed by a brush fire, April 11, 2023, in Brick Township, N.J. (Photo: Shorebeat)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Brick Township council this week, pursuant to a state law instituted three years ago, provided approval for the salaries of commissioners who serve the township\u2019s three fire districts.<\/p>\n<p>Though the township maintains all-volunteer fire companies, commissioners are elected each February and hold public meetings that determine the budget for the fire service as a whole, which includes a staff that performs inspections, sets policies and determines budgetary matters. The total compensation for commissioners as a whole has been reduced in recent years through some professional reorganization, though some commissioners have seen a small increase in their annual stipend. Brick has three fire districts and a Joint Board of Fire Commissioners.<\/p>\n<p>The fire commissioners for district one and two receive a flat annual stipend of $8,000 for serving on the board. Fire District Three has a slightly different salary structure since one of its commissioners performs the role that the other districts hire an employee to fill.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s how Brick\u2019s fire commissioners are compensated:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Fire District 1:<\/strong> Five Commissioners<br \/>\n<strong>Commissioners\u2019 Salary:<\/strong> $8,000 annually, per commissioner.<br \/>\n<strong>Location Served:<\/strong> District 1 spans the southern-most half of the Township, from the Toms Rivder Township border, north and west to the Lakewood border. It also covers just over a mile of oceanfront area, bordered by Mantoloking on the north and Toms River on the south.)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fire District 2:<\/strong> Five Commissioners<br \/>\n<strong>Commissioners\u2019 Salary:<\/strong> $8,000 annually, per commissioner.<br \/>\n<strong>Location Served:<\/strong> Fire District 2 comprises the central portion of the Township, north and east of the Metedeconk River and Forge Pond, southwest of the Point Pleasant Boro border.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fire District 3:<\/strong> Five Commissioners<br \/>\n<strong>Commissioners\u2019 Salary:<\/strong> President, $6,500; Vice President, $6,500; Treasurer, $19,500; Secretary, $6,500; Commissioner at Large, $6,500.<br \/>\n<strong>Area Served:<\/strong> Fire District 3 covers the northernmost section of the town, bordered by Fire District #2 to the south, the Howell and Wall township borders to the north, and the Wall and Brielle borders to the east.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Neither the mayor nor council determine the salaries; they are set by the board itself. Beginning in 2021, the state adopted a policy that requires municipal governing bodies to review and approve fire commissioner compensation.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2024\/10\/brick-township-council-approves-2025-fire-commissioner-salaries\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Brick Township council this week, pursuant to a state law instituted three years ago, provided approval for the salaries of commissioners who serve the township\u2019s three fire districts. Though the township maintains all-volunteer fire companies, commissioners are elected each February and hold public meetings that determine the budget for the fire service as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21959,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[24,4484,4540,5304],"class_list":["post-24550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-police-fire-courts","tag-brick-nj-news","tag-featured","tag-fire-commissioners","tag-newsbreak"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/brick_marsh_fire_april_2023_1078-scaled.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-6nY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}