West Windsor Council has directed two of its members to draft a policy to address reimbursement of out-of-pocket expenses that will specifically apply to the council — but not the mayor or other township employees.
Council on September 29 came to the consensus that the first step in the process was to create a reimbursement policy for itself, and that putting a formal policy into place would be a good idea.
Council President George Borek suggested that Councilman Charles Morgan, as well as Councilwoman Linda Geevers, work on the draft since they both came up with their own reimbursement policy proposals in the past. But council members specified they only wanted the policy to apply to council at this point.
“We can start with council,” Morgan said. “Council does set policy in the township.” Then, Morgan said, “what we should do is take baby steps. We should do one for council, and we would see what kind of differences there are, and ask ourselves, ‘Why are there those differences?” in comparison with the reimbursements of other municipal employees.
The reimbursement issue came up earlier this month when Morgan voiced his concern during an approval for a mileage/parking reimbursement for the Mayor Shing-Fu Hsueh. His concerns were similar to those raised during discussions during 2008 municipal budget.
