INDEPENDENT March 14, 1984 G U a R a N T E E D C L a S S I F I E D a D S !
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Ill X h I n d e p e n d e n t G a rb ag e co lle ction ta x to rise b y th re e cents Aberdeen offers $5.9 million budget By David Thaler tion rate rose last year. The reserve de The cost of garbage collection will rise 1983 capital improvement appropriation. ABERDEEN clined from $1.1 million to $936,000. from $365,672 in 1983 to $473,000 this year. The largest capital improvement ap The municipal portion of the local proper The 1983 reserve was based on an an The increase was attributed to a 16 per propriation, $150,000 is for a new computer ty tax rate would remain at 86 cents per $100 ticipated collection rate of 90.43 percent. cent rise in the scavenger’s cost and a re for the Finance Dept. of,assessed valuation under a $5.9 million The actual collection rate last year, accord quest for a 200 percent increase in tipping The township’s seven-year-old mini budget introduced last night by the Town ing to the council, was 93.67 percent. fees at the county landfill. computer is “very inadequte to process tax, ship Council. The reserve in the 1984 budget is based on The water rate for Cliffwood and Cliff water utility, payroll, budget, licensing, But the township’s garbage collection tax an anticipated collection rate of 92.7 per wood Beach will not go up in 1984, the coun assessments and other data processing would rise by three cents, to 14 cents per $100 cent. cil said. Water for the other sections of the needs,” according to the budget report, of assessed valuation, according to a Duagei The total tax rate consists of the munici township is provided by the Aberdeen Muni “...the machine is breaking down constant- report issued by the council. pal levy, the county tax, the school levy, the cipal Utilities Authority. jy and Us) difficult to re-program due to The budget totals $5,284,454, an increase garbage tax, and the fire district tax. “It is anticipated that for 1984 there will unavailability of programmers.” of $183,000 over the 1983 total. To avoid a tax The school portion of the tax rate would be no need to raise the present water rate of The council plans to purchase a “single increase, the council applied $330,452 in sur rise by 12.9 cents under the Board of Educa $2.98 per thousand gallons,” the council said source computer with remote terminals” in plus to the budget. tion’s proposed $20.7 million budget. The in its budget report. ■ ■ several departments. Last year, the council applied $150,000 in county levy is not yet known. Because the The council. appropriated $328,000 for “Although the original capital outlay is surplus. township is divided into two fire districts, capital improvements, including $195,000 large,” the report states, “the payback in The council was able to reduce its reserve the rate varies from one section of the muni for the reconstruction of streets. The total increased efficiency, control, and produc for uncollected taxes because the tax collec cipality to another. represents an increase of $235,333 over the tivity will be obvious in a short time.” G row th in tax base, use of surplus help stabalize levy 15-cent decrease planned for rate ■ M iddletow n m unicipal tax unchanged By Judith McGee Feeney KEANSBURG By Judith McGee Feeney money and not raise taxes,” Committeeman The municipal tax rate would decrease by MIDDLETOWN Richard McKean said, “is that ratables 15 cents per $100 of assessed valuation under The municipal portion of the local proper have increased from $716.5 million to $754.5 a 1984 budget expected to be introduced to ty tax rate would remain at $1.07 per $100 of million since 1983.” night by the Borough Council. assessed valuation under a $19.7 million McKean’s assertion that the $38 million in Although the proposal would maintain budget introduced Monday by the Township crease was the result of his own campaign reductions in personnel for crossing guards Committee. efforts to “bring light to the situation in the and the Recreation Dept., it would provide The budget is $1.4 million higher than the assessor's office” drew criticism from funds for the Police Dept, to keep all of its 23 1983 total of $18.3 million. Republican committeemen. men, according to Borough Manager Ed Under the $1.07 rate, the owner of a house A backlog of assessments was McKean’s ward Weigand. assessed at $50,000 pays $535 in annual mu major issue last year as a Democratic can Orders to lay off some policemen were nicipal taxes. The total property tax rate didate for the committee. rescinded yesterday, Weigand said. also consists of the county levy and the The three Republicans, Mayor Robert Of the 11 policemen who had received pink school tax, Waller and Committeemen James Maher slips last month, two were to lose their jobs An increase in township ratables and an and Paul Linder passed a resolution com this Friday. The other nine were notified increase in the amount of surplus appropri mending Tax Assessor Barbara Clark, who they might lose their jobs April 13. ated as revenue enabled the committee to was hired last year, for “straightening out Although borough officials had said they maintain the tax rate. anything that needed to be straightened did not plan to eliminate alLll posts, they The committee is expected to adopt the out” in the office. had notified the officers in case some had to budget after a public hearing April 23. “The credit should go to Dorothy Dorsett, be laid off. “One reason we were able to spend more who brought the matter to our attention, and The borough has also decided to keep the to Barbara Clark,” Maher said. “No credit John F. Kennedy Community Center open at all should go to Mr. McKean.” until June for programs which have already Budget offered, But, McKean continued to call for an in started, Weigand said. dependent audit of past practices in the of Under the budget proposal, the tax rate would decrease from $1.66 to $1.51 per $100 fice “to find out how much (in taxes) we RICHARD McKEAN Hazlet tax rate m issed.” of assessed valuation. “I don’t think it’s over,” McKean said. The proposed tax levy of $8.1 million is The owner of a house assessed at $50,000 The committee examined practices in the $400,000 more than the 1983 levy of $7.7 would pay $755 in annual municipal taxes, a to go up 5 cents assessor’s office several months ago and is million. decrease of $75. “It’s really a bare-bones budget,” Bv Susan C. Mysak expected to release a “white paper” next Also increased by $400,000 is the amount of Weigand said. “There’s no fat anywhere. HAZLET month explaining the situation and recom surplus being appropriated as revenue to We’ll need a lot of hoping and praying to get The Township Committee has introduced mending improvements. the budget. The committee proposes using by with it for the year.” a $4.8 million municipal budget which will Township Attorney Peter Carton, who was $2.4 million in surplus as revenue and leav Last year, the municipal tax rate in increase the tax rate by five cents. asked to prepare the paper, said Monday he ing $2.5 million in surplus. In 1983, the com creased by 33 percent. Campaigning on the The municipal portion of the tax rate vyill will present a draft to the committee April 2. mittee used $2 million in surplus as revenue. need to reduce taxes, the Keansburg Tax be 80 cents per $100 of assessed valuation. Of the $19.6 million budget total, $305,000 payers and Civics Assn. led a recall of four Mayor Paul Stallone said the budget is “a would provide down payments for $6 million Other sources of revenue, including state of the five councilmen in November. Four fair and equitable compromise that reflects in capital projects. Capital down payments and federal aid, are increasing by $625,341 to association members were elected to the the needs of the community as well as the appropriated in the 1983 budget totaled $9,172,783. • council in their place. ability of payment by the taxpayers.” $220,000, according to Township Auditor Ron Committeeman Henry Pekarsky added Burgess of Seaman, Seaman, and Oslislo, Among the 18 capital projects included in Councilmen hammered out the budget that it is one of the lowest tax rates in the Perth Amboy. the budget are expansion of the public works proposal Monday, Weigand said. The council saved $21,000 by eliminating county. The budget also includes $3.2 million for building on Kanes Lane, the purchase of a five crossing guards, he said, and more was “By maintaining a stable tax rate year debt service, an increase of only $8,000 over new telephone system, and the widening of after year,” he said, “we avoid the large in 1983. Holland Road. saved in reductions in the Recreation Dept. creases other towns have been experienc ing.” Pekarsky, committee finance chairman, Holmdel school tax rate to decline by 6.5 cents added that the budget is “well managed because it has been consistent through the IIOLIWDKL increase in ratables • premiums the jump was caused by an ab years.” ' The Board of Education Monday adopted normally high claim rate in 1982-83, when a The proposed budget, he said, is within the Superintendent of Schools William Sat/ single claim amounted to approximately a $9,326,280 budget for the 1984-85 school noted Monday at a public heat ing on the state’s five percent spending cap.