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Supervisors to consider employee bonuses Tuesday

The Gloucester County Board of supervisors has a fairly lengthy agenda for its meeting Tuesday that will begin at 7 p.m. in the colonial courthouse. Among the items to be discussed is the possibility of giving county employees bonuses.

Gloucester Point district supervisor Bobby Crewe brought up the issue last month, following a 4-3 vote by supervisors to change the way the county’s school system is funded from lump sum to categorical.

During that meeting, Crewe said he would like to make a motion at a future meeting to give a $400 bonus to all Gloucester County employees as of Jan. 1, 2011. "They haven’t had a raise in three years and are due one also," he said at that meeting.

One of the arguments several supervisors used to change the school division’s funding method was that the school system had decided to use year-end savings to give all school employees (except for top school administrators) $400 bonuses in the last fiscal year.

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