Posted on 08/17/2017 9:35:54 AM PDT by Djl3668
Harrison Councilman James Doran is one busy man.
Doran, 56, holds three public jobs, is an unpaid board member for a Hudson County agency and was sworn in last month as a paid commissioner for the Passaic Valley Sewerage Commission. That position comes with a pension -- Doran's third.
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Doran, 56, holds three public jobs, is an unpaid board member for a Hudson County agency and was sworn in last month as a paid commissioner for the Passaic Valley Sewerage Commission. That position comes with a pension -- Doran's third.
In all, Doran earns over $273,000 from taxpayers annually. In his off time, he runs Harrison Realty, where he is co-owner.
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Asked whether he has too much on his plate, the councilman told The Jersey Journal he thinks Harrison residents would say he does not. He has multiple public posts because he is "knowledgeable about the community," he said in a phone interview.
"I've been pretty much dedicated to Harrison my whole life," Doran said.
Hudson County is famous for its double and triple dippers. Nick Sacco, the longtime North Bergen mayor, is also a state senator and was a top administrator with North Bergen's public-school district until his July retirement. Bob Knapp is the East Newark clerk, treasurer for that town's school district and the county welfare director. But quadruple dippers are rare.
Here are the public paychecks Councilman/Assistant Schools Superintendent/Commissioner/Adult School Supervisor Doran collects:
$261,515: Doran's largest public salary is for being assistant superintendent of Harrison's 2,100-student school district. He used to be the schools chief but took on his current role in 2014 rather than accept a $155,000 salary mandated by the state's 2011 superintendent pay cap (there is no salary maximum on other school administrator positions). As a school administrator, he is enrolled in the state Teachers' Pension and Annuity Fund.
$10,000: That's what Doran will make annually at the PVSC. Commissioners for the agency, which provides services to 1.4 million people across four counties, meet monthly. As a PVSC commissioner, Doran is automatically enrolled in the state's Defined Contribution Retirement Program, a 401(k)-style program where officials contribute 5.5 percent of their salary to a tax-deferred investment account. The PVSC provides a matching contribution of 3 percent. A PVSC spokesman noted state statute requires PVSC commissioners be enrolled in the pension program.
$1,500: Doran earns that as Harrison's fourth ward councilman. He was first elected in 1998. For this role, he is enrolled in the state Public Employees' Retirement System.
$37 an hour: Since 2015, Doran has been an hourly, part-time supervisor for Hudson County Schools of Technology's adult high school, which has a Harrison location. He was previously the school's full-time principal. Doran said he works rarely at the adult high school, sometimes two hours a week. "Sometimes I forget I even do it," he said.
Doran is also an unpaid commissioner for the Hudson County Improvement Authority, which meets monthly,
James Doran, center, is sworn in as a Passaic Valley Sewarage Commission commissioner by Harrison Mayor James Fife, right, on July 13, 2017. Doran's brother, John, who works for the PVSC, is on the left. James Doran, center, is sworn in as a Passaic Valley Sewarage Commission commissioner by Harrison Mayor James Fife, right, on July 13, 2017. Doran's brother, John, who works for the PVSC, is on the left. (Courtesy of the Passaic Valley Sewerage Commission) Regarding his pensions, Doran said his major pension is for his school administrator job. His PERS retirement, he said, will amount to "six dollars a year." The PVSC will contribute $300 a year to the pension for his commissioner job.
Doran is a powerful pol in Harrison, a blue-collar town of about 15,000 on the western edge of Hudson County where the median household income is $56,700
The town's mayor and eight council members are all Democrats and often run for re-election unchallenged. Doran's only Democratic challenge was in 2000. In his last re-election bid, he reported raising $49.11.
Appointments to the PVSC board are nominated by Republican Gov. Chris Christie and approved by the Democratic-controlled state Senate. Spokesmen for Christie, who has in the past railed against politicians who hold multiple public jobs, and for senate Democrats did not return requests for comment.
Doran, who crossed party lines in 2013 to endorse Christie, joined the PVSC board on July 13 along with Joseph Isola, formerly a Union City firefighter and fire captain with North Hudson Fire & Rescue.
Doran was sworn in by his brother, John, who works for PVSC's river restoration program. His brother's salary at the sewerage agency is $115,211.
Terrence T. McDonald may be reached at tmcdonald@jjournal.com. Follow him on Twitter @terrencemcd. Find The Jersey Journal on Facebook.
View Comments (28) HUDSON COUNTY Bayonne man charged with vicious assault over a debt: police
Comment Updated on August 17, 2017 at 12:17 AM Posted on August 17, 2017 at 12:16 AM JOURNAL FILE PHOTO JOURNAL FILE PHOTO (EJA) 0 shares By Michaelangelo Conte The Jersey Journal JERSEY CITY -- A Bayonne man has been charged with choking a man with a rubber hose during a vicious assault the attacker claimed was over money owed him by the victim's son, police said.
Officers responding to the victim's home on West 57th Street at 12:53 p.m. arrested Bryan Ormiston, 26, of West 54th Street, on the charges of kidnapping, attempted extortion, aggravated assault, criminal restraint and making terroristic threats, Bayonne Police Lt. Timothy Wilgus said.
Ormiston has a criminal history that goes back to 2009. Last September he was sentenced to 364 days for four offenses between 2010 and 2015 that included robbery and weapons possession.
In 2013, Ormiston was arrested multiple times, including crashing into a parked car while under the influence of PCP; burglarizing a home on Prospect Avenue; and disorderly conduct and assault after being found unconscious in his car.
Bayonne man arrested on weapons, drug charges, police say Bayonne man arrested on weapons, drug charges, police say A Bayonne man was arrested on Monday after an early morning robbery of a Union City man, police said.
The victim told police Ormiston punched him in the back of the head in the bathroom and then choked him with a rubber hose until he passed out. The victim said he came to about 25 feet away in the kitchen, where Ormiston was continuing to punch him in the head and threatening to shoot him, Wilgus said.
The victim told police Ormiston then dragged him by his belt down the basement steps, where he continued his assault and tied the man's hands behind his back while demanding he call his son to tell him to bring the money.
The victim said at some point Ormiston turned his attention away and he was able to run out of the house, where he met his son, Wilgus said.
The son had left the residence after arguing with Ormiston about money prior to the assault. Police said the son eventually called 911 and Ormiston was arrested at the scene without incident. The victim was transported to Bayonne Medical Center for treatment of head, throat and wrists injuries, Wilgus said.
Write a Comment NEW JERSEY LOTTERY Powerball ticket worth $150K, 6 more worth $50K sold in N.J.
Updated on August 17, 2017 at 12:09 AM Posted on August 17, 2017 at 12:05 AM 0 shares By Jeff Goldmanjeff_goldman@njadvancemedia.com NJ Advance Media for NJ.com While none of the three, second-prize tickets for Wednesday's $432.5 million Powerball drawing were sold in New Jersey, seven people in the state won at least $50,000.
The winning tickets matched four numbers and the Powerball. One is worth $150,000 because the winner spent an extra $1 to exercise the Powerplay option.
Wednesday's winning numbers were 9, 15, 43, 60 and 64. The Powerball was 4 with a Megaplier of 3x.
The $150,000 ticket was purchased at 7-Eleven on Tonnelle Avenue in Jersey City.
The $50,000 winning tickets were bought at the following locations:
Lukoil on Route 208 in Fair Lawn C & C Deli on Woodlane Road in Edgewater Park Country Farms on Route 73 south in Maple Shade 7-Eleven on Route 1 north in the Monmouth Junction section of South Brunswick ShopRite on Route 1 in Edison Welsh Farms on Route 33 west in Manalapan Here's what N.J. family that won $429M jackpot is doing with its money Here's what N.J. family that won $429M jackpot is doing with its money The ticket was the largest single jackpot winning ticket sold in New Jersey
It's nearly a million to one shot to even win $50,000 -- 913,129.18 to 1 to be exact.
Saturday's jackpot has increased to $510 million with a cash option of $324.2 million, making it the eighth-largest prize in U.S. lottery history.
Powerball tickets, which have been sold in New Jersey since January 2010, cost $2 each. The odds of a ticket hitting the jackpot are 292,201,338 to 1. Players have roughly a 1 in 11,688,053 chance to win the second prize of at least $1 million.
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Did NJ learn from CA or did both CA and NJ learn from NY on how to be more corrupt than Valenzuela?
"As the Harrison public-school district battles with state officials over how much it pays its schools chief, former Superintendent James Doran has become the district's director of personnel so he doesn't have to take a $84,908 pay cut mandated by the state cap on superintendent salaries. Doran, whose initial five-year contract with the 2,036-student district expired in June, earned $242,408 last school year. If the school board had renewed his contract, his maximum pay would have been $157,500."
http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/2014/09/former_harrison_schools_chief_becomes_personnel_director_to_avoid_salary_cap.html
“School Breakfast Top Priority for NJ School District”
Posted by James Harmon, USDA Food and Nutrition Service, Mid-Atlantic Region, Special Nutrition Program Director on August 14, 2013
Harrison School District Superintendent Dr. James Doran is committed to improving the learning environment for children in this small New Jersey town. Part of that commitment was on display during National School Breakfast Week when I visited Lincoln Elementary School with Dr. Doran to see first-hand how schools in Harrison have championed breakfast in the classroom.
Lincoln has more than 600 students who have enjoyed breakfast in the classroom for the past two school years. But this year Dr. Doran expanded the program to include both the middle and high school, ensuring that even more students begin each school day with a nutritious breakfast. The District decided it was best to offer breakfast after the bell to all students because, according to Dr. Doran, “all the research indicates that children who eat breakfast perform better academically and tend to be more attentive.”
I’m sorry, are you defending this criminal “public servant” or pointing out how many duties he has that really only deserve one pension?
People have no concept of money nor what government should and should not be. My answer to these pigs at the trough is rather French Revolution in nature. Our future is being squandered by those who live like royalty today. These snot nose,brain dead snowflakes who like to occupy and destroy things while bitching about everything will never stop this as long as it’s a Democrat doing it.
Amen
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