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Continue reading19 Nov
Per Capita, Linden has the largest debt payment and (after Winfield which has no debt) Hillside has the smallest debt payment in 2021.
Continue reading23 Oct
New Jersey’s Local Bond Law includes this section:
40A:2-20. Expenses included in cost
The cost of an improvement or property may include interest on obligations until the end of the fiscal year in which the obligations are issued or until 6 months after the completion of construction or acquisition, and architect’s fees, accounting, engineering and inspection costs, legal expenses, costs of authorizing, selling and issuing obligations, preliminary planning, test and survey expenses, and a reasonable proportion of the compensation and expenses of employees of a local unit in connection with the construction or acquisition of such improvement or property.
Municipalities can borrow for road repairs or to buy vehicles and other equipment apparently without voter or state approval as long as they pass an ordinance saying what they are going to spend the money on. Kenilworth has been doing that regularly over the years.
Here is a summary of those ordinances and what they were supposed to go for along with a listing of how much of that money, based on check registry data, went to Harbor Consultants for Section 20 costs.
Continue reading25 Mar
Tomorrow more on parks and jail racism but for now here are the agenda items:
Ordinance and Resolutions mentioned:
Continue reading6 Nov
There was a little back and forth on a patronage hire costing taxpayers some money.
Eliciting this ad hominem response:
More on more borrowing and more spending:
Continue reading26 Jun
Whatever Union County can’t get from raising taxes as much as is allowable under the tax cap and stealing Open Space taxes they bond for each summer. They will do it again tomorrow and this year’s number is $48,560,397.