{"id":9670,"date":"2016-11-03T01:52:36","date_gmt":"2016-11-03T05:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=9670"},"modified":"2016-11-03T01:52:36","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T05:52:36","slug":"ex-brick-cfo-got-raise-after-moving-to-btmua-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2016\/11\/ex-brick-cfo-got-raise-after-moving-to-btmua-job\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Brick CFO Got Raise After Moving to BTMUA Job"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1083\" style=\"width: 628px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/btmua.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1083\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1083\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/btmua-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"The Brick Township Municipal Utilities Authority, BTMUA (Photo: Daniel Nee)\" width=\"618\" height=\"464\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/btmua-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/btmua-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/btmua-600x450.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 618px) 100vw, 618px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1083\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Brick Township Municipal Utilities Authority, BTMUA (Photo: Daniel Nee)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The person who served as Brick\u2019s chief financial officer for about six\u00a0weeks before taking the same position at the Brick Township Municipal Authority got a salary increase by doing so.<\/p>\n<p>John Clifford, a Northfield resident who previously served as CFO of Middle Township, Cape May County, was appointed Brick\u2019s CFO Aug. 9, but had resigned from the position to serve as CFO of the utilities authority by the end of September.<\/p>\n<p>In his position with the township, Clifford earned $100,000, plus benefits. According to Clifford\u2019s contract with the BTMUA, obtained by Shorebeat through a request under the state\u2019s Open Public Records Act, his new salary is $110,000, which will rise to $116,733 by the final year of the pact.<\/p>\n<p>The contract calls for 2 percent raises each year. It expires Oct. 10, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Clifford resigned from the township, according to Mayor John Ducey, after interviewing with the MUA, where he replaced longtime CFO Frank Planko. His appointment to the township position proved controversial, after political opponents of Ducey uncovered that Clifford \u2013 who was being hired to oversee the township\u2019s finances \u2013 had previously filed for bankruptcy in his personal life.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2016\/11\/ex-brick-cfo-got-raise-after-moving-to-btmua-job\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The person who served as Brick\u2019s chief financial officer for about six\u00a0weeks before taking the same position at the Brick Township Municipal Authority got a salary increase by doing so. John Clifford, a Northfield resident who previously served as CFO of Middle Township, Cape May County, was appointed Brick\u2019s CFO Aug. 9, but had resigned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1083,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[24,1713,269,2341,2340],"class_list":["post-9670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-brick-nj-news","tag-brick-township-municipal-utilities-authority","tag-btmua","tag-chief-financial-officer","tag-john-clifford"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/btmua.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-2vY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}