Thursday, February 18, 2010

Christie on Squawk Box

“What I am worried about is getting our state back in fiscal health.”
~ Governor Chris Christie












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3 comments:

David said...

What I would like to see from Christie is a major reform of NJ Transit.

I am not familiar with the union contracts with the NJ Transit workers so I will not comment on those contracts.

However, I think the major thing NJ Transit needs to do is to cut routes that have been major money losers. Among those routes is the Philadelphia to Atlantic City Railroad and the River Line. Both represent a staggering waste of resources. And, Christie needs to scrap the Mass Transit Tunnel too.

Thursday, February 18, 2010 7:35:00 PM
James Hogan said...

I know nothing, and don't have the details worked out, but one thing I'd like to see Christie address, which he eludes to around the 5:50 mark is school-aid.

Now I don't know exactly what his plans might be, but as a resident of Long Branch, I'd like to let Mr. Christie know that we don't need money from the state. We seem to have plenty of it and because we are so wealthy, we pay Joseph Ferraina, who has a school named after himself, $50,000 more than the governor makes, plus his benefits, and a car, and ...

Sarcasm aside, I do think there would be some value and instant benefits, tax savings, etc if the gov could somehow suggest and make it law that no city will get additional school funding from the state if they pay any school administrators, supers, etc more than the gov, which I think is a $175,000/yr job? For that matter, maybe it should really be something like you can't pay school administrators more than 2/3rds of the gov's salary. And for that matter, just like some pro-sports have a "Salary Cap" maybe cities need some salary cap based on population, ie, the middle school here has something like a half-dozen principles, in one school. The other schools have the same and maybe, just maybe, there needs to be a limit to the number of administrators per teacher or per student or per person.

Again, I don't know enough to understand how school-aid (doesn't) work or if/how the gov could address the out of control salaries some of these people make, but it seems like an easy way to wack hundreds of thousands off of the payroll.

Thursday, February 18, 2010 10:58:00 PM
Anonymous said...

DOes anyone know who pays for these so called " Mayors Balls" that the MC townships throw ? Where does the money come from ? Any thoughts ?

Monday, February 22, 2010 11:54:00 AM

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