boro manger hold off on salary
supit takes a pay cut
but some how I STILL FEEL MY POCKET IS BEING PICKED.
thank you council and board of ed.

ill admit it- i am in the private sector and now i know i made the wrong career choice. the way the public sector just throws around money and justify thier salaries is amazing.

im gonna have to try this metzler trick on the president of my company. "hey boss when you said i will make $14 an hour i thought you said $40 an hour, so to fix this communication problem just add $5 a week until i make $40 an hour."

trust me mr metzler when struggling families are reading this article they arent gong to think "gee wiz thanks for progressively going from 140k- 150k me metzler" they are going to say "why in the world is this guuy making 140k in the first place!"

maybe its just me but i want a manager who is content with 100k and works hard to make fair lawn a better place- not to make a boat load of money, or in metzlers case a "truck" load

by the time barratta trawinski and metzler are done with thier terms- only residents who make 150k + will be able to afford to live in FL

Ok so the employees with no contract for 3+ years don't get raises and the borough is going to "flex scheduling" to have borough hall closed 3 day and the recycling closed 3 days and the sewer department working 7 days a week to save money and this clown gets a 10k raise?? Plus we are having fire work??!!!?? Scum really does float to the top.

This is very confusing, why doesn't the contract then just read 150k, and why didn't the council not lower the starting salary in an effort to save taxpayers money? Very confusing but probably intended as such.

Just shy of 2900 a week plus benis. Not bad for a civil "servant".

I hope that only making $140K per year ( does that mean the last Council saved us $10K?) the poor guy doesn't have to go to the Food Pantry to get his Grey Poupon.

Brought to you from the people that thought a $25 per hour increase for their new lawyer was "nominal" and then gave us a 2.5% tax increase because they can and another 2.5% because the last council didn't. Fair Lawn First!

Remarkable !
Hey Bellair do you realize that the pay scale is equal to that phantom Mgr named Stafford?
Who by the way was brought to us by the same party that stuffed the rec center into the taxpayers rumps?!

"Rather, they're the result of a misunderstanding that occurred when he was hired in January". One misunderstanding after the next, let's not forget the whole car fiasco!

I'm just curious what exactly those who disagree with the manager's contract think the CEO of an organization with a $46.1 million budget should make. I know it is popular and easy to attack public servents but the phrase you get what you pay for is true, and given what the manager has done to get this town back on track it sure seems to me like we are getting our money's worth. I'm also curious to see BB actively campaign against councilman peluso and councilwoman swain since they voted in favor of the contact as well or can BB just admit that this bipartisan vote was actually in the best interest of the town

Brent, if this town were an organization like you stated, it would be out of business. Cutting jobs, taking a pay raise,and then trying to make it appear as if he was doing us a favor, is in poor taste. Don't forget, He has an $80,000 dollar assistant too. Add it up, Metzler has been coming up with new ways to dip into pockets so HE can have the same salary as the other bum Stafford. Isn't Metzler still getting paid for the last time he was run out of here on top of all this?

My property lost 8% value but my taxes increased. Now it all makes sense.

How dumb do they think we are?

IF Mr Tax-increaser was such a good Borough Manager, how is it that he missed 7% of his own check? Doesn't he already make more with the settlement money? Shouldn't he have been forced to give that up as a condition of taking the job?

How much was he making before he took the manager's job. I wonder if it bothers him that the borough attorney had to tell a sitting councilwoman she could not speak her mind because of a gag order which was part of the settlement which arose from Metzler's wrong doing. Hey Mr Metzler, how about releasing the borough from that ILLEGAL gag agreement?

He is indeed asking his employees to "sacrifice" while he takes even more of our money out of our pockets for himself. Does he really think he fooled any of the employees? If so, why are they still employees? Fair Lawn deserves better than that.

Glen Rock's borough manager makes less than a $125k, Metzler already makes more, even without his "settlement checks".

Oh, bb I should have been clearer I was referring to public employees. Unlike the previous council and the current minority i dont believe in enagaing in the politics of pitting residents against our public employees. I certinatly hold fast that no semi part time official, republican or dem should have a stipend or benefits and I hope the counsel acts on the bipartisan initiative and excludes them from the next budget. Before we cut services these council member perks need to go. And I guess with the affirmation of Obamacare councilwoman sawin will make it a unanimous vote rather than 4-1 support voiced this year.

Me, Myself, and I. This is what this article reminds me of. Meanwhile labor is a stinking mess in Fair Lawn!