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AMENDMENT TO BINDING ARBITRATION STATUTE
WHEREAS, the Police and Fire Interest Arbitration Act of 1995 provided for interest
arbitration to be final step in tlle collective bargaining process for Police and Fire; and
WHEREAS, this Act;
a) requires the arbitrator to determine the "net economic change" to be
awarded, thereby encouraging arbitrators to select compromises from the
final positions of the employees and unions for numerous economic
issues,
b) amends criteria to be used by the arbitrators to include two references to
the State CAP Law, and
c) expands criteria concerning the impact of the arbitrators award on the
ability of the governing body to maintain or expand existing programs or
initiate new ones; and
WHEREAS, the Binding Arbitration Process is intended to support local government by
arriving at award decisions equitable to all involved parties, including Police and Fire,
Municipal Officials, taxpayers and other municipal employees; and
WHEREAS, despite the economic constraints suggested in the guidelines noted above,
for the ten year period from January 1996 through December 2005, arbitration awards
exceeded both the CAP Law limitation and the Consumer Price Index (Cpr) by 50%; and
WHEREAS, excessive binding arbitration awards are clearly a major factor causing the
rapidly increasing municipal property taxes throughout New Jersey; and
WHEREAS, the high salaries now paid to Police are causing municipalities to curtail
other desired services and to give lower salary increases to other employees to off-set
Police salary increases; and
WHEREAS, the New Jersey State League of Municipalities has proposed that the State
Legislature amend the Int,erest Arbitration Law to limit awards to the amount of annual
CAP limitation.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Mayor and Council of the Borough
of Carteret supports the N.J.L.M.'s position on this matter and requests the New Jersey
State Legislature to amend the Police and Fire Interest Arbitration Act to limit binding
arbitration awards for all economic issues combined to an amount on a department basis
that does not exceed the annual CAP Law limitation.
BE IT FURTHER RESOL VED, that municipalities throughout the State are requested to
pass a similar resolution and to forward it to our legislators.
Adopted this 4th day of May, 2006
aoo certified as a tn.e copy of the
original on May 5, 2006.
KA1H!1IDi H. BARNEY
RECORD OF COUNCIL VOTE
COUNCILMAN YES NO NY A.B. COUNCILMAN YES NO NY A.B.
BELLINO v NAPLES X
DIAZ v RIOS y
VDnM y STTAR7 v
X - Indicate Vote AS -Absent NV - Not Voting XOR - Indicates Yote to Overrule Veto
Adopted at a meeting of the Municipal Council ~
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