Nuisance Taxes Won't Help Assembly Ponders Size of Tax
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The Daily Register VOL.98 NO. 11 SHREWSBURY, N. J. MONDAY, JULY 14, 1975 15 CENTS County educators: Nuisance taxes won't help By DORIS Kl 1 MAN schools, thinks the governor should hold out for an income "1 know an income tax will pinch my pocket, bul I have tax. to be realistic in terms of the citizens of my state." Mr. Cabr- Nuisance taxes won't solve the problem of funding New "As a school administrator, it would be easy to say 'take era averred Jersey's schools, Monmouth County school superintendents, the nuisance tax and get some money into the schools." Mr Hazlet will lose $50,000 in state aid but still will get facing what some have described as "catastrophic" cuts in Cabrera said, "We'll hurt for a year if we don't get the mon- $3,569,738 Its $89 million budget was pared $463,000 by the state aid, agreed in a Daily Register spot survey. ey. But we have to think of the future. The schools will be in Township Committee after the voters turned the spending It's a long-range problem in need of a long-term solution, business long after Gov. Brendan T Byrne and I both are in schedule down in the February school election they said. our graves." "The Board of Education has directed me to prepare a Emphasizing that they were expressing only their own State aid to local school districts apparently will bear the plan for cutting the $50,000 where it will least harm the educa- personal opinions, all but two, Dr. Bernhard W. Schneider, su- brunt of the state budget cutbacks despite a compromise tax tional program. That's hard when you've already cut $463,000 perintendent of Middletown Township schools, which will lose package expected to be enacted this week. The compromise is from a budget that didn't have any fat to begin with." Mr almost $2.5 million, and Dr. Roy J. Unger, Colts Neck school designed to restore part of the $S84-million Gov. Byrne Cabrera declared >. superintendent, declared a state income tax the feasible and slashed from that budget to balance it. fair solution to the fiscal crisis confronting the state and the Monmouth County school officials described the slash in Hazlet also suffered a "paper loss" of more than $600,000 schools. state aid as "catastrophic" when the district-by-district cuts this year — the additional state funds it would have gotten if "You didn't hear me say 'income tax'," Dr. Linger said. were announced July 1. There were grim predictions of mass the court mandate for state financing of public education had "There may be some other way. I don't know." staff layoffs, eliminating busing, cutting out all athletic and been met. Most of the administrators — however reluctantly — see a other extra-curricular programs, scrapping music and art Dr. Frank A Volpe, superintendent of. Monmouth Region- nuisance tax package as necessary to get money to the classes, and curtailing the school year. al High School, and Albert J Cafiero, superintendent of Marl- schools this year. They concur with William G. DIMaio, Union "I feel the only realistic tax base the state can work with boro Township schools, personally support an income tax. but Beach school superintendent, who said, "I personally like an is the income tax," Mr. Cabrera said. "Nuisance taxes are a see enactment of the nuisance tax package necessary to get income tax, but at this point I hope they vote in something so nuisance to administer, which is bad enough, but they also needed money to the schools this September. we won't lose this money." hurt those who can least afford it, the guy who needs to save The $45,000 Monmouth Regional High has been told it will Edward Pavlovsky Bernhard W. Schneider But Roman Cabrera, Hazlet Township superintendent of pennies here and there. See County, page 2 Assembly ponders size of tax package TRENTON (AP)- As with an upward estimate of of a referendum in November the sales tax and increases in pressure mounted against state revenues by $30 million providing 4or rebates on prop- the state cigarette and gaso- proposed job layoffs and cut- this would close all but about erty taxes according to for- line taxes, along with higher backs in state services, As- $20 million of the budget gap. mulas based on household in- fees for motor vehicle ser- sembly leaders wrestled This package contains a one- come. Details of this proposal vices and a bank stock trans- today with what size package cent increase in the sales tax. were still on the drawing fer tax. of nuisance taxes to release — A $604 million proposal board but some legislators There is sentiment among for a floor vote. developed by the Democratic construed this as a renewed some Assembly members to Gov. Brendan T. Byrne met majority leaders of the Sen- effort to salvage an income impose a tax on gasoline refi- yesterday with a score of ate and Assembly that would tax. The governor has lost neries in the state. Democratic Assembly mem- restore all the spending cuts five times in trying to get an Byrne reportedly told As- bers at Morven, the executive and offer property tax relief income tax program through sembly Democrats yesterday mansion. No clear consensus to elderly and low-income both houses of the legislature. that there was no way they emerged from that meeting homeowners. The package of nuisance were going to be able to duck on how to bridge a $384 mil- The governor put forth at taxes put forth by the Senate the income tax issue in this lion gap in the state budget. yesterday's meeting the idea provides for an increase in See Assembly, page 2 The tone of the meeting AP «lr«ptnto was subdued. Several law- ALL TOGETHER — Members of the Apollo-Soyuz right to left are astronauts Donald K. Slayton; makers explained that three Test Pro|ect shown during a news conference In Vance D. Brand; Thomas P. Slafford; and cosmo- hearings last week on the Houston. The crew members are scheduled to lift nauts Valeriy N. Kubasov and Alaksey A. Leonov. budget crisis underscored off tomorrow for a rendezvous In space. From deep public dissatisfaction Buffin to resign over elimination of jobs and reduction in services along By JANE FODERARO persisted here last week. But with proposed cuts in state neither one had anything to school aid. LONG BRANCH - Maj. say about possible differences U.S., Soviet rockets poised More meetings were sched- John M. Buffin, director of between them. uled today and tomorrow with public safety, confirmed last The 61-year-old safety di- the possibility that some form night that he's resigning. rector, who's also a retired of nuisance tax package He said he handed in his N.J. State Police official, said would be ready for a floor resignation last week "for a he didn't know whether he'll for launch of joint mission vote Thursday. The amount variety of reasons — mostly continue to reside in Long of the package remained un- of a personal nature." Branch when he leaves the CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla (AP) - Astronauts, cosmo- years of training for this mission. Both believe that moments certain as Byrne reiterated Mayor Henry R. Cioffi re- $20,5O0-a-year city post. Maj. nauts, spaceships and rockets are ready for the joint U.S. So- like this, high in space, can speed detente between Soviets his opposition to an increase fused to comment last night. Buffin was former deputy di- viet space mission that gets under way tomorrow, ending the and Americans on earth. in the sales tax. He is contin- Maj. Buffin, who was rector of the N.J. State Po- space race that began 18 years ago with the launching of The two commanders spoke by long distance telephone uing his efforts to tie a nui- named to head the city police lice, having retired in 1168 af- Sputnik. yesterday. sance tax package now to an force in April, 1971, said he ter 30 years of service. Countdowns ticked away smoothly on two continents today Stafford said Leonov and Kubasov told him "that every- Income tax package later in didn't know when the resigna- Maj. Buffin's career in for twin launching* that will propel the American Apollo and thing was real fine at the Soviet cosmodrome" and he told the the year. tion will become effective. Long Branch has been mark- Russian Soyuz spacecraft into orbit for a historic linkup cosmonauts that things were good at the Cape, except for Discussion in the Assembly "It's up to the adminis- ed by controversy. Thursday. "sweating out" the weather. has centered around the fol- tration and their efforts to re- Seven months after he took The Soyuz, guided by cosmonauts Alexei A. Leonov and Meteorologists say the afternoon thunderstorms that have lowing: place me," he said. control of the police depart- Valeri N. Kubasov, will blast off at 8:20 a.m. EDT from the swept the Cape daily are a matter of concern, but "the — A package proposed by Rumsors of a rift between ment, Maj. Buffin was threat- Baikonur Cosmodrome on the edge of a cantral Russian amount of thunderstorm activity is expected to decrease by the Senate that would yield Maj. Buffin and the city ad- ening to resign because of a desert 1.400 miles southeast of Moscow. Tuesday." about $330 million. Combined ministrator, Vincent Mazza, See Buffin, page 2 Ma).