Wow. First year lifeguard chief paid over 26 k when the experienced guys fired making well under that. That’s a nice raise I am sure that will just feed into the lawsuit being filed and wasn’t that job advertised at 15 k? Pays to know someone !
Time to consider farming out our Police Dept. Use your newly chosen Labor attorney to get these salaries down. The party is over. I bet half these high flying salaries don’t even live in town. Tack another$50k in benefits and who do you think is paying for it. Mr. Mayor- Slash all budgets prior to even considering raising taxes. Be a man.
I would happily accept a tax increase to pay down the debt… The only caveat is the out of control town spending must be reduced… That includes reviewing the school budget as well to determine if a charter school system is appropriate…
LT Campbell at 213k. Notice the classification. Beach Police. Paid out of beach budget I would bet. 213 thousand dollars for a money grabbing open checkbook police officer ? Under the beach? Classified as beach police. You have to be kidding me chiefs of police don’t even make that kind of money in real towns not this fantasy land Belmar bad dream we have been living. 213 k. Incomprehensible
M and C- You need to send out RIF notices to all employees ASAP (March 1st). Cutting the $1M needed for debt should be an easy task looking at these salaries. Freeze all hiring as you show these people the door. And the other kick in the teeth is Dem. Gov, Murphy forcing raises on all summer help. UGH NO MORE TAXES
Un f ing believable!! Lifeguard chief Kerecman,unqualified, no experience, know nothing puppet who hid under the pier whenever shot hit the fan. Made well over 10k more than the guys with 40 plus years of experience. What a scam! He should go hide under a conch shell and never show his face again.
Acting chief Andrew Huisman should be fire immediately. Not only for stealing money from the taxpayers of Belmar but for complete mismanagement and incompetence for running a one square mile police department.
What a scam it is, Lifeguard Chief making that much more than the 40+ year experienced guys is disgusting! How can you hire a inexperienced person who has absolutely NO CLUE for more than all the years the others had? Oh I forgot, you have to know the right person! Well lets get rid of the corrupt and let Mr Wannabe Lifeguard Chief go get a job elsewhere where he actually has to have experience. No doubt this is a added bonus for the lifeguard suit and they deserve to win it!
Police salaries are unreal. I thought we were supposed to save money by taking over lake como police. It seems the only ones to make out are the citizens of lake como while the taxpayers of belmar for the and suffer severe tax increases. Not right.
A police office being charged full time to the beach utility is stealing from the beach tag buyer to lower property taxes. This is against the law. The court came down hard on Belmar for charging Specials (Officers) working in the evening hours of summer being charged to the Beach utility, what do you think they would say about seasons when the beach isn’t even manned? The court ruled that only officers that work on the beach front during charging hours can be compensated with beach funds. The beach tags buyer is paying for their safety with lifeguards and police. Why should they pay to breaking up fights between D’Jais customers on private property or the St. Patty’s parade?
Yes these rules stink, but it is the law. If the Mayor and council (they ALL voted yes but me on the budgets) would have taken the politically unpopular fiscal discipline approach on managing the town, these salaries would have never gotten out of control like this. Now Belmar taxpayers will clean up the mess.
Belmar Council needs to follow in the foot steps of Lake Como. Let the residents vote on the next ballot. Keep the police and raise taxes or contract the police out to another agency and lower taxes.
I dont believe a local municipality would be willing to pickup Belmar policing duties… Who would want to deal with the mess that occurs in the summer months… We need to fix this ourselves… Farming these duties out is just wishful thinking…
Granted these numbers are out of control , PD is not an easy job no matter the town your working in today’s world. The number that number that really makes me shake my head is roughly $128,053 for Lavatory attendant ? On top of the $128,053 , they are allowed tips cups ? Plus a large portion collect unemployment all winter , for a seasonal job!
Unemployment is not FREE the town pays. It would be cheaper to sub out the bathroom attendant job than continue they way it is today.
This what you get when the Kool Aid crew aka McDirty and the Queen of Mean, and their followers get to bully everyone in town for years. And people voted them in! At least the Dems are out and we can start to clean up this mess. Need a reorganization of department heads (Police, DPW, ect) and unfortunately taxes raised to get us out of this debt. Some of the Crew should pay for this too with legal ramifications….
#32 your statement of bullying is spot on! That is exactly what they did if you weren’t in their little circle! I look forward to this administration cleaning this mess up. We need professionals running this town which is what we have now, thankfully.
And Doherty is a financial advisor?? The guy should be reported to the State of NJ and have all the letters following his name be revoked. Oh, I forgot, he works for the State of NJ. Forget it.
Who is marina basin supervisor at 102.000k ex marina supervisor Fabio at 109.000k. Never heard or saw marina basin supervisor, anybody know his duties???????
Fabio’s jobs description consists of harassing boat owners and exaggerating about EVERYTHING. Oh and dont forget to ride down to the beach and check out the waves! Never knew such a loser who calls himself the champ! Get rid of his useless a$$, waste of town money!
29: You suckers, Bearded Tom double dips in summer bumping his state pension teaching pension augmenting it as he’s a gate attendant like his Democrat counterpart, Doug Witte, Councilperson from Lake Como.
# 37 marina basin supervisor is John maquire who is he and what is his job assignment. Sounds like a political no show job. Dpw supervisor was ex supervisor FABIO’s boss. Thank GOD HE’s gone.
Now I can see the reason for raising beach badge fees. The prior administration sucked the beach utility money dry by attaching numerous salaries to it. Mike Campbell jr $213k from beach police funds. These salaries are sickening.
Wow! supervisors and ROAD repair employees almost 300 thousand dollars plus. Belmar should look like Disney World. All these salaries are absurd. Before raising taxes we need to clean house with all these high salaries. This is a small town with high nepotism. Our police department looks like a large city staff .Get a grip on the causes of crime and downsize to the beach community we are supposed to be.This is insane!
#44 – Correct Sir/Madam, The meetings in Febuary should be quite interesting. I don’t think the Mayor will waste any time making things right – there is no time to waste.
Mark and Pat. Please start RIF proceedings NOW. Hand out notices March 1st. Cut these unnecessary positions and reduce these salaries and budgets. NO NEW TAXES, you are Republicans, remember?
Oh Fabio is a REAL great person ain’t that right Fabio the faker. Fact, Fabio reads this blog and finally he really knows how everyone despises him and his lovely mullet. Now go and get a real job that pays 109K. You stole from Belmar and now it’s payback. How’s the shoulder?
Too too bad for Fabio it couldn’t happen to such a nice person. Next should be the overpaid cone man with his special hire the unqualified lifeguard chief friend of his and maybe they together can ride off into sunset on the slow moving beach buggy he drives up & down the beach on.
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Police officers in a one mile town making 200k,no wonder the town of Belmar is broke.
Does this include overtime?
Total pay for the year.
Wow. First year lifeguard chief paid over 26 k when the experienced guys fired making well under that. That’s a nice raise I am sure that will just feed into the lawsuit being filed and wasn’t that job advertised at 15 k? Pays to know someone !
I just threw up in my mouth!
Time to consider farming out our Police Dept. Use your newly chosen Labor attorney to get these salaries down. The party is over. I bet half these high flying salaries don’t even live in town. Tack another$50k in benefits and who do you think is paying for it. Mr. Mayor- Slash all budgets prior to even considering raising taxes. Be a man.
Total insanity. Cuts musts be made asap. If the unions won’t allow for paycuts, then personnel positions must be cut.
Police in Newark make between $58,000 and $68,000/ year. Salaries in Belmar and Newark should be switched.
I would happily accept a tax increase to pay down the debt… The only caveat is the out of control town spending must be reduced… That includes reviewing the school budget as well to determine if a charter school system is appropriate…
LT Campbell at 213k. Notice the classification. Beach Police. Paid out of beach budget I would bet. 213 thousand dollars for a money grabbing open checkbook police officer ? Under the beach? Classified as beach police. You have to be kidding me chiefs of police don’t even make that kind of money in real towns not this fantasy land Belmar bad dream we have been living. 213 k. Incomprehensible
M and C- You need to send out RIF notices to all employees ASAP (March 1st). Cutting the $1M needed for debt should be an easy task looking at these salaries. Freeze all hiring as you show these people the door. And the other kick in the teeth is Dem. Gov, Murphy forcing raises on all summer help. UGH NO MORE TAXES
Un f ing believable!! Lifeguard chief Kerecman,unqualified, no experience, know nothing puppet who hid under the pier whenever shot hit the fan. Made well over 10k more than the guys with 40 plus years of experience. What a scam! He should go hide under a conch shell and never show his face again.
Tough times call for tough measures. Too bad for the good employees who will suffer for what this past administration did and didn’t do.
Acting chief Andrew Huisman should be fire immediately. Not only for stealing money from the taxpayers of Belmar but for complete mismanagement and incompetence for running a one square mile police department.
full time Belmar employees should be able to afford living in the town they serve … but, not on Inlet Terrace.
Cox – $206K
Desserich – $164K
Huisman – $198K
Lynch – $190K
Scott – $167K
Yee – $160K
total: $1,085,000
We will soon see who Mayor Walsifer is more loyal to. His friends in the BPD or the taxpayers
What a scam it is, Lifeguard Chief making that much more than the 40+ year experienced guys is disgusting! How can you hire a inexperienced person who has absolutely NO CLUE for more than all the years the others had? Oh I forgot, you have to know the right person! Well lets get rid of the corrupt and let Mr Wannabe Lifeguard Chief go get a job elsewhere where he actually has to have experience. No doubt this is a added bonus for the lifeguard suit and they deserve to win it!
Police salaries are unreal. I thought we were supposed to save money by taking over lake como police. It seems the only ones to make out are the citizens of lake como while the taxpayers of belmar for the and suffer severe tax increases. Not right.
Beg Wall Township to allow Belmar to reverse the big mistake Belmar made when it seceded.
#16. You forgot Mike Campbell Lieutenant at 213k. He’s at the top!
#16 you forgot Mike Campbell Jr. The Lt in the police dept
$213,461!!! I’m nauseous.
sorry I missed a big one….
Cox – $206K
Desserich – $164K
Huisman – $198K
Lynch – $190K
Scott – $167K
Yee – $160K
Campbell – $213K
total: $1,298,000
We will soon see who Mayor Walsifer is more loyal to. His friends in the BPD or the taxpayers
A police office being charged full time to the beach utility is stealing from the beach tag buyer to lower property taxes. This is against the law. The court came down hard on Belmar for charging Specials (Officers) working in the evening hours of summer being charged to the Beach utility, what do you think they would say about seasons when the beach isn’t even manned? The court ruled that only officers that work on the beach front during charging hours can be compensated with beach funds. The beach tags buyer is paying for their safety with lifeguards and police. Why should they pay to breaking up fights between D’Jais customers on private property or the St. Patty’s parade?
Yes these rules stink, but it is the law. If the Mayor and council (they ALL voted yes but me on the budgets) would have taken the politically unpopular fiscal discipline approach on managing the town, these salaries would have never gotten out of control like this. Now Belmar taxpayers will clean up the mess.
I bet Hiseman more than $198,000.
Belmar Council needs to follow in the foot steps of Lake Como. Let the residents vote on the next ballot. Keep the police and raise taxes or contract the police out to another agency and lower taxes.
I dont believe a local municipality would be willing to pickup Belmar policing duties… Who would want to deal with the mess that occurs in the summer months… We need to fix this ourselves… Farming these duties out is just wishful thinking…
Anyone else surprised to hear the Lifeguard Chief discussing finance?
Granted these numbers are out of control , PD is not an easy job no matter the town your working in today’s world. The number that number that really makes me shake my head is roughly $128,053 for Lavatory attendant ? On top of the $128,053 , they are allowed tips cups ? Plus a large portion collect unemployment all winter , for a seasonal job!
Unemployment is not FREE the town pays. It would be cheaper to sub out the bathroom attendant job than continue they way it is today.
Tom Brennan should kick in money from his inflated BOE salary to help pay for the shortfall. He voted for the budgets he should PAY!!!!
#28- Great idea. Put the services out to bid and let them hire illegal aliens to clean the bathrooms.
Revenue generated from Belmar/Lake Como bars?
This what you get when the Kool Aid crew aka McDirty and the Queen of Mean, and their followers get to bully everyone in town for years. And people voted them in! At least the Dems are out and we can start to clean up this mess. Need a reorganization of department heads (Police, DPW, ect) and unfortunately taxes raised to get us out of this debt. Some of the Crew should pay for this too with legal ramifications….
Immediate hiring freeze. Stop to all overtime. Nepotism is far from dead in Belmar. Mr Kirschenbaum cut all depts. This Belmar payroll is awful.
#32 your statement of bullying is spot on! That is exactly what they did if you weren’t in their little circle! I look forward to this administration cleaning this mess up. We need professionals running this town which is what we have now, thankfully.
And Doherty is a financial advisor?? The guy should be reported to the State of NJ and have all the letters following his name be revoked. Oh, I forgot, he works for the State of NJ. Forget it.
Who is marina basin supervisor at 102.000k ex marina supervisor Fabio at 109.000k. Never heard or saw marina basin supervisor, anybody know his duties???????
Fabio’s jobs description consists of harassing boat owners and exaggerating about EVERYTHING. Oh and dont forget to ride down to the beach and check out the waves! Never knew such a loser who calls himself the champ! Get rid of his useless a$$, waste of town money!
29: You suckers, Bearded Tom double dips in summer bumping his state pension teaching pension augmenting it as he’s a gate attendant like his Democrat counterpart, Doug Witte, Councilperson from Lake Como.
# 37 marina basin supervisor is John maquire who is he and what is his job assignment. Sounds like a political no show job. Dpw supervisor was ex supervisor FABIO’s boss. Thank GOD HE’s gone.
These salaries are disturbing.
Wow…I am truly appalled by this gross misappropriation of funds. That’s a lot of perfectly good pennies going to waste….
Now I can see the reason for raising beach badge fees. The prior administration sucked the beach utility money dry by attaching numerous salaries to it. Mike Campbell jr $213k from beach police funds. These salaries are sickening.
Any input from the Department of Community Affairs yet?
Wow! supervisors and ROAD repair employees almost 300 thousand dollars plus. Belmar should look like Disney World. All these salaries are absurd. Before raising taxes we need to clean house with all these high salaries. This is a small town with high nepotism. Our police department looks like a large city staff .Get a grip on the causes of crime and downsize to the beach community we are supposed to be.This is insane!
#44 – Correct Sir/Madam, The meetings in Febuary should be quite interesting. I don’t think the Mayor will waste any time making things right – there is no time to waste.
The police salaries are disgusting. Campbell, Cox, Husman,Lynch, Scott. Unbelievable. Just name a few.
You can not raise beach fees in Belmar to support the grievous mismanagement by previous administration!
Can anyone explain $400k going to Harbor commission, $300k of which is salary?
Those police salaries are D-I-S-G-U-S-T-I-N-G.
Who negotiates, reviews and signs off on these contracts??
Mark and Pat. Please start RIF proceedings NOW. Hand out notices March 1st. Cut these unnecessary positions and reduce these salaries and budgets. NO NEW TAXES, you are Republicans, remember?
Brennan should be impeached.
#37 Who the heck is Fabio?
#51 Fabio is the ex marina dock master
#51 Fabio Charlie Vanderlinde
With his new haircut, he looks like the Dutch boy. He went undercover. Hope to see him emptying garbage containers on main st this summer.
Ex marina dock master? Was he fired? Did he finally go pro as a surfer? I thought he was just recovering.
Oh Fabio is a REAL great person ain’t that right Fabio the faker. Fact, Fabio reads this blog and finally he really knows how everyone despises him and his lovely mullet. Now go and get a real job that pays 109K. You stole from Belmar and now it’s payback. How’s the shoulder?
#54 he probably couldn’t lift a garbage can and if he could then we would have a garbage man making 109k, I say drain the swap and get rid of him!
Ex- dock master?? Why so? Did it have anything to do with an injured shoulder and a false insurance claim??
#55 FABIO WAS DEMOTED FROM DOCKMASTER TO DPW LABORER IN TOWN, he was saved from being fired. But took a big reduction in pay.
#59 what did Fabio do to get demoted? How much of a pay cut?
Heard about 30k
Too too bad for Fabio it couldn’t happen to such a nice person. Next should be the overpaid cone man with his special hire the unqualified lifeguard chief friend of his and maybe they together can ride off into sunset on the slow moving beach buggy he drives up & down the beach on.
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