Mayor, Let's call it like it is, you are working hard at nothing. You can't even give the Patch accurate figures for what the township taxpayers are actually doling out to your buddy.

You all have a lot to say about a Guy who risked his life day after day to protect the town!! Now he is retiring and you think it's not right for him to collect what he earned!! Shame on all of you who have never been in his shoes and worked all those hours while you were home sleeping!! I want to congratulate you Chief on a Job Well Done and Wish You Nothing But The Best Of Luck in Your Retierment!!!

Phil L - your ignorance is astounding. The discrepency between the Patch numbers and the Township were 4 days. Let's call it like it really is - the carifi campaign is trying to make this an attack on the Mayor - but its just more lies and BS from their Camp - bc the Mayor cannot control these payouts nor can he control the Pension system flaws. If Team Carifi really cared about the Taxpayer then why did Lou Valori get his college degree, masters degree, and doctorate degree on the dime of my taxes? i had to pay my own way and so do my children - its greed that drives Carifi, Peluso, Valori, and Vigilante - these guys are not fiscal conservatives.

Oh look another new Profile name (TruthSeeker, just for this thread?), freshly created to defend our fine Mayor and attack anyone that would dare run for office our democratic election process. I hope these new profiles are not being created at Townhall on tax payer time. There seems to fresh ones daily to defend the same person. Why no outrage for the hire "Friends and Family" policy of the Mayor? How many relatives and friends of his and his running mates are now on the town payroll? Why that would sound like greed to most.

The Mayor states, "I share the governor’s outrage at the amount of money paid to public employees for accumulated sick and vacation time. That’s interesting to hear! You seem to have nothing but distain for Dr. Valori and Mr. P. Carifi collecting their earned pensions, thus the Nickname of “Team Greed” we keeping hearing. However I don’t recall reading where you condemn Former Chief Peckerman or soon to be Former Chief DeZenzo collecting their pensions or Mr. Stanton for that matter. I have never heard or read a negative word regarding any of them. Oh that’s right, these two short serving highly paid individuals were selected by you personally. This sounds awful Hypocritical again Mr. Mayor.

Remember Parsippany, to vote Team Corruption early and often.

Hey "TruthSeeker", or let's cut to the chase-- Hey Milin Shah, pay attention cause this is gonna hurt.

Sounds like you got problems with the police department getting their education paid for by the taxpayers of Parsippany. But it is this asleep-behind-the-wheel mayor you should be lamenting.

TruthSeeker, Milin, you should be incensed, irate, ashamed and appalled to know THIS MAYOR has done absolutely NOTHING to bring about reform to these contracts while in office. Currently, police officers' contracts cover education reimbursements for college degrees up to and including a doctorate.

Please allow me to continue your list of some of the police officer/beneficiaries of this out-of-control contract perk with no help from this compromised mayor to put a stop to it. In fact, Barberio let it remain in his buddies DeZenzo’s contract while taxpayers Barberio claims to serve are having difficulty paying for their own childrens' colleges.

Also of note, this mayor hasn't even attempted to reform contracts -- it remained in his buddy DeZenzo's contract. Here are the highlights:

Town paid for Chief Peckerman to get his law degree.
Town paid for Chief DeZenzo's graduate degree
Town paid for Captain Jeffrey Storm's graduate degree

So you see Truthseeker, Milin, you are forgetting how many more degrees this mayor and previous mayors allowed Parsippany taxpayers to finance with NO INTERVENTION or reform proposals from this circus clown Mayor.

Despite Barberio's rhetoric -- this ethically and intellectually-challenged Par-Troy mayor IS NO GOVERNOR CHRISTIE. Governor Christie is bringing about absolute reform in union contracts/collective bargaining agreements. However, Mayor Barberio is sitting on his behind claiming to share the Governor's vision and positions, but yet Barberio keeps crying over how he can’t do anything (please refer to article above).

Barberio did the opposite of what Governor Christie did when told it would be impossible to bring about union contract reforms. Christie literally "turned Trenton upside down". Unfortunately this mayor just turned onto his BACKSIDE and didn’t put the damn cookie down to do some real work.

The Mayor is right, the contract allowing Police officers to accumulate huge sick and vacation time was not hatched on his watch. And it's not Chief Dezenzo's fault either for taking advantage of the contract rules. What is smelly here is the raise the Chief got for taking over OEM. If I get this right, the Chief's pension is calculated as a percentage of his current pay. If so, then his pension payment factors in the raise he got for taking over OEM which the Chief oversaw for less than 1 year. So the Chief takes over OEM, gets a raise, and a few months later, retires. Now a post he filled for less than a year is factored into his pension payments for life. Now that does smell, and the Mayor can't dodge responsibility for that...if I am right on how the pension is calculated...

Ed you have a lot to say about the Mayor and The Police Deparent.. Why don't you go do some investigating and see how almost All Police Departments pay for there Officers to receive College Degrees. As for The Mayor I think he is doing a Great Job and we haven't had that in tis town for a long time!! Also maybe you should see what it's like to wear a badge and fight crime everyday!! U are probably one of those guys who sits behind a desk and does nothing all day long!!

Thanks Harry, but this Mayor and his actions smells from all angles.

Hey John C, I already know what it is like to wear a badge and a gun and patrolling streets, so I don't need any advice from you. And I paid for my education without taxpayer subsidy.

You are missing the point John C, this has less to do with the police department and more to do with this Mayor's inability and ineptitude in bringing about some real contract reforms like the Governor with whom Barberio struggles to align himself. The Governor is successful at reform and this mayor is fails to walk the walk and take real action on issues the Governor is tackling on the state level.

The taxpayers are fed up in financing for long-term contract perks which we can't afford any longer.

And a mayor verbally claiming to carry the same principles and priorities the Governor has while doing NOTHING, means NOTHING to the residents -- especially when they get their tax bill and find out what they are still paying for.

And if this Mayor is what you like in a local official, then you embrace corruption, incompetence, higher taxes, lack of reform and continued status quo.

Hey Ed, if you know what it's like to wear a gun and a badge then you wouldn't be saying the things that you are expressing!! Lets get something straight This Gov. didn't do anything to help out the tax payers of this state!! He only helped the Rich get Richer!! If you knew anything about his reform and what he has done to the police and fireman then you wouldn't be talking like this. Maybe if all the Governors PAYYED into the Pension System and gave back the Five Hundred Million they STOLL WE wouldn't be in this situation with taxes!!! All they did was keep taking from the system to balance there budgets And never replaced the Money!!! This Mayor has nothing to do with why The Police Chief is getting all his Money he is owed!! It's people like you who only know how to complain and think that they have all the answers!!

Sorry TruthSeeker, I am not your Lou Valori. Didn't even work for or in this township,

I am just a Par-Troy resident and property taxpayer fed up with funding for perks I can no longer afford and stuck with this corrupt mayor who can't get anything done or won't attempt to reform local government to benefit the financially-strapped taxpayer.

I am also a New Jersey resident fed up with listening to the Par-Troy mayor trying to parade himself around like he is Governor Christie's twin, when in fact he is everything Governor Christie DOES NOT stand for because Barberio has accomplished nothing synonymous to what our effective state leader has done.

So Truthseeker, go bark up someone else's tree in your attempt to find your Lou Valori.

I just read all 12 commetns in their totality and sense that my IQ dropped precipitously by about 10 percent. Fortunately, in spite of my reading habits, I have some to spare.

@Publius, that would be a matter of opinion. You likely over embellished with what your "level" was in the first place.

YAWN! I'm guessing all the people here crying about police pensions MISSED the article that NJ only paid 1/7 of what they were supposed to towards the PFRS!! Uh yeah, the cops, firemen, and teachers have been paying an INCREASED amount, yet Gov. Krispy failed to hold up his end of HIS genius plan! Get over it people, none of those mentioned in the article or comments broke the law! It was all contractual. For those bashing the cops, step up and take the next test if it's such an easy job. Remember though, nowadays you have to be a VETERAN to get hired which according to the census ONLY 8% of Parsippany residents have served their country! So, 92% of you NEED NOT APPLY! However, feel free to thank those who have served, and have given YOU the right to cry about politics on this site!
However, John C saying that "he has risked his life day after day" is a little dramatic. All of my cop friends will tell you that once you make captain your "risk" is GREATLY reduced! Again, the guy got what he was contractually entitled to....

thats bull. Noone deserves that much of a payout for robbing the town. Clearly this was his intention the whole time. If you dont use your sick days, you should lose them. There is absolutely no reason why sick days and unused vacation days should be rolled over every year. It is totally obnoxius and a way to rip off your organization, in this case YOUR TOWN! It's YOUR MONEY paying for these people to get this payout for doing ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. Blows my mind... If you dont use 'em you lose 'em. Works out fine for the huge organization I work for....

@Publius I could not agree with you more. I try to read all comments and regard them fairly, but when the grammar and syntax is so awful, I have a hard time thinking that some of these people are capable of stringing a cognizant thought together when they can't even compose a simple sentence. Are there really adults out there who do not know the difference between their, there, and they're? It's simple second grade English grammar.

Day nine and life at Campaign Barberio is far from fine
Fingers are being pointed and fewer Republicans are willing to tow the Mayor's line
Truth and full disclosure is the way the Party faithful want James R. to go
But that is a path that seems to elude a now very lost Mayor Barberio

Gee Mayor didn't you appoint the Chief and give him a sweetheart deal better then Peckerman's , and as usual you had nothing to do with any of it. Just like the way you run the town doing nothing.

@Linda Blair, get over yourself, these are only posts -- not literary pieces up for a Pulitzer nomination.

Every person on this chain has a right to post their opinion regardless of how eloquently their opinion is stated or not.

You and Puiblius need to take yourselves into a secluded dark corner lit by only candlight and argue over syntax, word usage and your respective IQ's.

I don't a huge problem with the chief getting paid for his sick time. He worked the system well. What I do have a problem with, is the fact they he gets paid for all these days at todays dollars. I say pay him at the rate he would have gotten when he was entitled to them.