UC Budget 2022 (3) Open Space Tax Theft

Another year of stealing almost all of the Open Space Tax:

UC Budget 2021 (2) Open Space Tax Theft

Another year of stealing almost all of the Open Space Tax:

2021 Union County Executive Budget (1) Pop Outs

The 2021 Union County Executive Budget is out and this blog kicks off a series that will look at the numbers in detail. Here are the pertinent pages and we start with items that pop out at you to the point where you assume it is some kind of mistake.

Union County Tax Hikes and Tax Thefts

The thefts continues as money raised by the Open Space tax is diverted to the county budget. Since 2001 regular taxes have risen by 134%:

Add to that another year of stealing almost all of the Open Space tax:

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County To Buy Cranford Property

From tonight’s agenda:

809-2019 BOND ORDINANCE TO AUTHORIZE THE ACQUISITION OF REAL PROPERTY IN THE TOWNSHIP OF CRANFORD FOR OPEN SPACE CONSERVATION AND RECREATIONAL PURPOSES IN, BY AND FOR THE COUNTY OF UNION, STATE OF NEW JERSEY, TO APPROPRIATE THE SUM OF $530,000 TO PAY THE COST THEREOF, TO MAKE A DOWN PAYMENT, TO AUTHORIZE THE ISSUANCE OF BONDS TO FINANCE SUCH APPROPRIATION AND TO PROVIDE FOR THE ISSUANCE OF BOND ANTICIPATION NOTES IN ANTICIPATION OF THE ISSUANCE OF SUCH BONDS.

Even though Open Space taxes bring in about $10 million annually, most of that money is appropriated for the county’s own budget leaving the need to borrow. But the ordinance is not up so we do not know which Cranford property the county is looking to buy.

What do you think?

More Open Space Tax Theft

The theft continues as money raised by the Open Space tax is diverted to the county budget:

UCCF 10/25/18: Open Space Bluster

In response to criticism over his handing out of oversized checks to representatives from the towns in Union County where, in 12 days, Freeholder candidate Mirabella  would be running for reelection to the freeholder board:
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What he left out is that those 150 acres were purchased in the first few years of the Open Space Trust Fund which is now being diverted primarily for Union County’s own budget and these photo ops.

UCCF 4/19/18: Open Space Theft – 2018

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With the only response being:
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To which I respond:

More Open Space Tax Theft

The theft continues as money raised by the Open Space tax is diverted to the county budget:

STA on Union County Taxes

In their latest blog piece the Summit Taxpayers’ Association (STA) asks whose fault is the alarming increase in government spending and taxation in Union County.

The question is not directly answered (though I have an answer) but STA, through research of budget documents, does make some salient points, including: