County Employee From Fair Lawn Saves Taxpayers $650K
JoMarie Sacchinelli is the fourth recipient of the Bergen County Freeholder Board's Taxpayer Advocate Award
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Fair Lawn resident and county employee JoMarie Sacchinelli was awarded the county's Taxpayer Advocate Award last week for saving county taxpayers $650,000 by reducing the county's car fleet.
Over the past year, Sacchinelli, the coordinator of monitoring and evaluation in the county's Public Works Department, worked to downsize the county's fleet of vehicles in an effort to reduce operational costs.
County Executive Kathleen Donovan praised Sacchinelli in a statement released Tuesday.
“JoMarie Sacchinelli is the epitome of what public servants should be doing for their constituents and that is saving money for the taxpayers,” Donovan said. “In my State of the County address in 2011, I said we would focus on reducing the car fleet and, thanks to JoMarie, we have done that.”
Sacchinelli's cost-saving plan involved making a 10 percent reduction in the county's fleet of vehicles by removing non-essential vehicles through public auction, instituting a regular preventative maintenance program, purchasing utility vehicles instead of pickup trucks, introducing a GPS system and making joint bids between departments and divisions for new vehicles.
Bergen County Freeholder Chairman John D. Mitchell called Sacchinelli's introduction of a GPS system “an outstanding management tool."
“It has been the desire of this Board of Chosen Freeholders, as advocates of reducing your property taxes and taxes in general, to motivate and identify employees that work for the county that have done exceptional jobs in reducing taxpayer costs,” Mitchell said in a statement. “Mrs. Sacchinelli is a perfect example of this; by rethinking how the county fleet was managed, she saved hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars.”
Sacchinelli said she was motivated to rework the composition of the county fleet in an effort to save money for taxpayers, like herself.
“This is my money and I pay the tax bill, as well," Sacchinelli said in a statement. "My goal is to save more money. I hope to save another half-million dollars next year.”
The Taxpayer Advocate Award, bestowed annually by the Bergen County Freeholder Board, was instituted by Freeholder John Mitchell to spotlight county employees who have taken it upon themselves to find savings in their respective areas. Since the award's inception, taxpayers have realized $1,642,000 in savings.
Unreal Murderer
4:43 pm on Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Sacchinelli saves only the money her handler's will let her address, pennies on the dollar. While I applaud the savings, I find the big brother GPS system appauling
(does she or the county administration have a GPS system in their county vehicles) , Address the real spending issues like the ever expensive County Police and even I will be impressed!
Chris Antonelli
9:19 am on Wednesday, March 14, 2012
None of the county administration people have county vehicles. They were done away with a long time ago.
Chris Antonelli
4:53 pm on Tuesday, March 13, 2012
650K is 650K. It was saved and not spent. I could cut your tax bill in half and I'd still be evil. Geezzzzz.
delgado
9:37 pm on Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Its a lie, this crew lies about everything, the numbers cant add up
Unreal Murderer
4:54 pm on Tuesday, March 13, 2012
I wonder what the GPS would really show for these county administrators, some of the trips made on the taxpayer dime!
Chris Antonelli
9:20 am on Wednesday, March 14, 2012
None of the county administration people have county vehicles. They were done away with a long time ago.
Unreal Murderer
5:01 pm on Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Hey Chris, If the money was saved, did that mean those vehicles were not necessary? If so, then how many years of extra vehicles in the fleet did taxpayers get screwed? Did taxpayers see any reduction? How much did the GPS cost, and I only hope its on every county vehicle, not just a few. Numbers lie and liars make up numbers.
Chris Antonelli
9:20 am on Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Ask McNerney. Ask Ganz. Donovan did away with it.
Tommy P
6:11 pm on Tuesday, March 13, 2012
I know how to save way more, END county government.
64 departments/divisions, gone.
2,200+ over paid position (1 in 4 over 100k/year), gone.
$150,000,000 in salaries (not including benefits) off our backs.
Almost $60,000,000 in debt service would work itself out of existence.
$500,000,000 aka 1/2 BILLION Dollars, no longer taxed.
Board of Chosen Freeholders, County Exec, Board Clerk, Counsel to Board, County Administrator, Admin & Finance, Public Works ALL ELIMINATED
The state could take over the functions of Human Services, Health Services, County Police, County Clerk, County Surrogate
And we can return the Sheriff, parks and planning to the municipalities.
We wouldn't be the first state, not even in the north east, Connecticut, Massachusetts and The State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations don't have counties.
Chris Antonelli
9:18 am on Wednesday, March 14, 2012
And too bad your guy Ron Paul won't win in November.
cant win
11:36 am on Wednesday, March 14, 2012
and too bad no republican will either. looks like 4 more years of obama.
sadly ron paul is probably the best choice when you compare him to the rest of the canidates.
delgado
9:36 pm on Tuesday, March 13, 2012
No one in there right mind believes this. These Republicans lost their crediabilty on Day Number 1. Someone should look hard at the numbers and realize they are not real, in fact you cant even get close to the numbers. This is from a crew like double dipper Donovan who said "she was forced to take a pension" and lied and said they saved $30MILLION dollars in the budget. Mitchell lies also like when he said he opposed to double dipping and then votes for a double dipping Clerk.. This $650k is more 100% lies.
SwornCrookedthieves
9:25 am on Wednesday, March 14, 2012
C A, seems like murder had valid point if $650,000 was saved think of the millions wasted. Truth be told none of these politicians know what they are doing.
Chris Antonelli
10:14 am on Wednesday, March 14, 2012
You need to start somewhere, no?
Chris Antonelli
9:25 am on Wednesday, March 14, 2012
I know it's tough with the switching accounts and all, but for the love of God, please use there, they're and their in its proper use! You people think you're so smart about how to run a government, yet you can't even grasp proper English.
SwornCrookedthieves
9:33 am on Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Let me guess, you know how to run government, the lapdog of the repubpuke party?
Chris Antonelli
10:16 am on Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Why is this "Let me guess, you know how to run government, the lapdog of the repubpuke party?" phrased as a question? And it not even a coherent question at that, if it is a question. Lol.....
Janice
10:33 am on Wednesday, March 14, 2012
People who can't make a valid point resort to name calling. Rise up against the name callers/bullies and give them a taste of their own medicine!
SwornCrookedthieves
10:47 am on Wednesday, March 14, 2012
I might be wrong, but didn't this person receiving this award back these same current politico's, maybe even as far as having sponsored events and meetings? If I am correct, then would this award seem like, well, payback?
Chris Antonelli
10:53 am on Wednesday, March 14, 2012
This person has no political party affiliation.
Chris Antonelli
11:23 am on Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Qualify? Can you be more specific?
cant win
11:34 am on Wednesday, March 14, 2012
This is a perfect example of how crazy the people on this site are. no matter what anyone does people are going to complain about it.
jomarie saved us a lot of money and you people take away from that buy turning it into your own political agenda. i personally would like to say thank you jomarie.
what motivation are you really giving our governtment officials to try and do good when you are only gonig to find ways to put them down when they do
a lot of you really need to get a life