{"id":7274,"date":"2016-01-04T02:44:50","date_gmt":"2016-01-04T07:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=7274"},"modified":"2016-01-04T02:44:50","modified_gmt":"2016-01-04T07:44:50","slug":"brick-sets-aside-1-8m-for-snow-removal-employee-retirement-payouts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2016\/01\/brick-sets-aside-1-8m-for-snow-removal-employee-retirement-payouts\/","title":{"rendered":"Brick Sets Aside $1.8M For Snow Removal, Employee Retirement Payouts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3985\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/checkbook_township.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3985\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3985\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-3985\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/checkbook_township-240x160.png\" alt=\"Brick Municipal Building \/ Photo: Daniel Nee\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/checkbook_township-240x160.png 240w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/checkbook_township-290x195.png 290w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3985\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brick Municipal Building \/ Photo: Daniel Nee<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Brick is saving up for a snowy day \u2013 as well as a rainy day.<\/p>\n<p>At its Dec. 31 township council meeting, the governing body voted unanimously to set transfer $900,000 each to two trust funds \u2013 one which acts as a bank for snow emergencies and another that saves money due to employees upon retirement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had a situation back in 2010, we didn\u2019t have anything in the trust fund, and it was a trying time to come up with money to pay for it,\u201d said Mayor John Ducey, referring to the Dec. 26, 2010 blizzard which crippled the township and cost taxpayers more than $1 million.<\/p>\n<p>The snow emergency account can also be used in a limited number of other circumstances, such as cleanup costs after a storm that does not necessarily include snow, but cannot be used for any other purpose.<\/p>\n<p>The remaining $900,000 is to be used toward payouts due to employees upon retirement for unused sick and vacation time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re trying to be financially responsible in Brick, because those payouts are happening no matter what,\u201d said Ducey.<\/p>\n<p>During the 2015 budget year, the township owed a total of $7,229,561 in total employee \u201cabsence liability,\u201d the state\u2019s term for the payouts. 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At its Dec. 31 township council meeting, the governing body voted unanimously to set transfer $900,000 each to two trust funds \u2013 one which acts as a bank for snow emergencies and another that saves money due to employees upon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3985,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[1858,24,1859,1857],"class_list":["post-7274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-absence-liability","tag-brick-nj-news","tag-retirement-payout","tag-snow-emergency-fund"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/checkbook_township.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-1Tk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7274","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=7274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}