6 Herald - Lantern • Dispatch 8 January '86

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Freeholders Okay Opposed Pay Hike

By JOE ZELNHC COURT HOUSE - Despite charges that they didn't need it. didn't deserve it, and were hurting senior citizens, county freeholders unanimously raised their salaries by 5 percent last week. Their new pay is $16,538 a year and the freeholderdirector gets $17,640. Forty persons filled the freeholder meeting room Dec. 30. most to voice opposition to the proposed wage hike. Almost all were senior citizens and, although they protested they were "sick of being accused of politics," they had advertised in advance that they were Democrats. The freeholders are Republicans. THREE PERSONS in the audience 'supported the pay hike: Sea Isle City's Republican mayor. Michael McHale, and Lower Township Republican county committeewomen Ruth Hart and Debi de la Cretaz. Some of the senior citizens pointed out that they had that day received notice that Congress had suspended the 3.1 percent cost of living adjustment (COLA) that was to have been paid to military and Civil Service retirees. "Instead of being for the seniors, you are doing a job on the seniors." complained Cass Clark, Lower Township Democratic committeewoman. — Earl "Joe" Klinger, Bresr* dent of the Lower Towwfiip Taxpayers' Association, said that "across the couhv-v try in industry people are \ being asked to take pay cuts. This (increase) is not feasible for the freeholders." SEA ISLE CITY attorney Raymond Batten, unsuccessful Democratic candidate for the General Assembly last fall, saying he was speaking only for himself, asked the freeholders to "reconsider" on the basis of "the merits and the timing ." He complained that a pay hike "on the eve of New

Year's Eve" made a bad "appearance to the public," and that followed a 1985 budget hike of 13 percent which was "the largest percent in the state." Mary Baxter of Villas called the increase "absolutely obscene. Each freeholder has a nice position aside from this parttime job. You're not deserv- • ir g of it." The audience applauded. "I feel the freeholders do deserve the raise," said Hart. The audience laughed. "HAVE THE COURTESY to be L.uiet," said Hart. "I heard Air. Batten on TV all day. I'm sick of hearing politics. Where were the Democrats when they didn't have a candidate? I'm proud to say I'm an organization person. People don't know the work, the many hours the freeholders put in. If the people were against the freeholders, they should have put up a candidate." "1 want Mrs. Hart to pay my share of it." said Baxter. "We know all about your rotten politics, with no one dissenting or objecting." 'How can you vote to increase your own salaries?" asked Peggie Bieberbach, Lower's deputy mayor and ar unsuccessful Democratic candidate for freeholder in 1914. "That's a direct conflict of interest. I'm a little sick and tired that, just because we do not agree, everything is charged political. Once you're sworn in, ycueive up the ticket." \ MQLIVE IN LOWER ^<iwnship," said de la At

Cretaz, "where our taxes went up over 100 percent in the last three years. Our trash is picked up once a week. We gel very little service and high taxes. When it snows, we get one lane plowed. I know the time the freeholders put in. They're very, very busy people." James Klompus, vice . president of the John F. Kennedy Democratic Club of Wildwood Crest, said he had fought a freeholder pay hike in 1978 and at that time asked the freeholders if they depended on that salary for their living expenses. "Each said no," said Kloippus. who then charged that Freeholder William E. Sturm Jr. made a "big" salary for Bell Telephone. "I don't know about your definition of 'big,' " said Sturm, "but my job has nothing to do with my being freeholder." "Mr. Kilpatrick is an attorney," continued Klompus. "Mr. Evans is a builder. Mr. Thornton is a sales representative. This $16,000 (freeholder pay) is ridiculous for a population of 90,000. "You're within $500 of Atlantic County, with v 215,000. 1 doubt that either of you deserve any of it." "HOW MANY HOURS a week do you work?" asked Robert Sheeran of Wildwood Crest. "Twenty-five or thirty hours," said Thornton, "At $16,538." said Sheeran. "that's a pretty good hourly rate. I think you're overpaid." "I can see the raise," said Mayor McHale. "You have (Page 8 Please)

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