Assembly Republican Leader Alex DeCroce

DeCROCE APPLAUDS WORK OF BENEFITS REFORM PANEL, LAUDS GORMLEY AND O'TOOLE CONTRIBUTION TO REPORT

ELIMINATING WASTE AND ABUSE FROM PENSION AND BENEFITS SYSTEM WILL HELP TO REDUCE PROPERTY TAX BURDENNovember 27, 2006
Republican Leader Alex DeCroce/973-984-0922
Assembly Republican Office/609-292-5339

DeCROCE APPLAUDS WORK OF BENEFITS REFORM PANEL, LAUDS GORMLEY AND O'TOOLE CONTRIBUTION TO REPORT

ELIMINATING WASTE AND ABUSE FROM PENSION AND BENEFITS SYSTEM WILL HELP TO REDUCE PROPERTY TAX BURDEN

Assembly Republican Leader Alex DeCroce today issued the following statement regarding the release of a final set of recommendations from the Joint Legislative Committee on Public Employee Benefits Reform:

"The report issued today by the pension and benefits reform panel includes a number of worthy recommendations that will help us to lower the cost of government and thereby help to alleviate the property tax burden. This committee worked hard to produce recommendations that may save our state over a billion dollars. Senator Gormley and Assemblyman O'Toole played an instrumental role in developing these recommendations.

"Clearly, as pointed out by Senator Gormley and Assemblyman O'Toole, there are areas where the committee could make stronger recommendations, and the Legislature should explore pursuing those ends legislatively in the coming weeks. But today's report at least starts us moving in the right direction toward reforming an often abused pension and benefits system that is simply too costly to the taxpayers of this state."

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