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Fair Lawn Municipal Building Hours

Thursday, February 7, 2013

Summer Hours Return to Municipal Building

Borough council agreed Tuesday to take the municipal building to a four-day per week operation again this summer.

The Fair Lawn municipal building will be closed on Fridays again this summer. At the borough manager's suggestion, council agreed Tuesday to institute a cost-savings plan that puts the municipal building and its employees on a four-day work schedule from June 14 to Aug. 30. Business hours Monday through Thursday will be extended correspondingly during that 12-week period. Starting June 14, the municipal building will open a half-hour earlier and close an hour later Monday through Thursday -- from 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. -- and be closed (except for the police department) on Friday.  The four-day workweek is expected to save money by eliminating built-in employee overtime and comp time that is accrued when municipal building employees routinely…

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Council OKs 4-Day Workweek for Municipal Building, Survey Results Could Help Borough Decide Where to Trim, and For Municipal Building Employees, Reiner Spells Relief

Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Borough May Reduce Operations to Four Days Per Week

Under the cost-cutting proposal, the municipal building would operate with extended hours Monday through Thursday and be closed on Friday.

Borough administrators are fine-tuning an experimental plan that would put the municipal building and its employees on a four-day work schedule for much of the summer. The plan, introduced at a recent council work session by borough manager Tom Metzler, would extend operating hours at the municipal building Monday through Thursday and keep the building closed on Friday for the 10-week period from June 28 through Sept. 5. “Our goal is to eliminate overtime,” Metzler said. “It gives us an opportunity to see, by introducing flexible hours, how much overtime are we actually going to reduce.” An employee who now works 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., and then returns at night for a council meeting or municipal court date receives overtime for their …

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Fair Lawn Borough: Municipal Offices and Fair Lawn Borough: Police Department

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Bruce Knuckle

7:02 pm on Thursday, May 24, 2012

Maybe the overtime is captain sideshow Joe shredding important documents pertaining to lawsuits.   more ›

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