OCEAN CITY — Mayor Sal Perillo spent most of his budget address Thursday touting last year’s accomplishments, such as savings with trash contracts and an upcoming beach fill. He saved the bad news for last — a proposed 12 percent tax hike in his spending plan. “We already know that 2008 will be a difficult […]
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The Supreme Court of New Jersey has summarily remanded the Taxpayer Protection Ordinance case to the Appellate Division. This means the Appellate Court must reconsider the case in light of a recent the Supreme Court decision that overturns a 40-year-old lower court case upon which both the Appellate Court and the Superior Court relied. The
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Attempt to tie city spending to cost of living remains alive. OCEAN CITY – Taxpayers who want to tie city spending to the federal cost of living have new hope. The state Supreme Court this month remanded the proposal to the Appellate Court for further review. The proposal called the Taxpayer Protection Initiative would tie
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Having read the plan put forth by Governor Corzine, one has to wonder where he has been since he took office two years ago regarding fiscal responsibility. While former Governor McGreevy did his best to increase the budget and add to the problems of the citizens of New Jersey; the current Governor has done much
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TELL YOUR MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL THAT WE WILL NOT ACCEPT THESE INCREASES Spending increases 7.00% Taxation increases 12.257% Equivalent tax rate increase, excluding ratables is 12.11% 1ST WARD JODY ALESSANDRINE 391-8598 jodya3@comcast.net AT-LARGE SCOTT PING 399-0413 scottping2006@yahoo.com AT-LARGE MICHAEL ALLEGRETTO 432-8739 Michael.Allegretto@prufoxroach.com 2ND WARD GREGORY JOHNSON 457-4764 MAYOR SAL PERILLO 703-7675 sal6767@yahoo.com AT-LARGE KEITH
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FOR MANY YEARS FAIRNESS IN TAXES HAS SPOKEN AGAINST AND HAS WARNED OF THE DESTRUCTIVE IMPACT THAT THE UNREASONABLE BUDGET INCREASES WOULD HAVE ON OUR COMMUNITY. UNFORTUNATELY THOSE WARNINGS WERE MET WITH CYNICISM AND SARCASM YEAR AFTER YEAR. THE FOLLOWING IS A LETTER WRITTEN BY JIM TWEED, A FIT BOARD MEMBER, AND WAS PUBLISHED IN
Dear Editor: Well, after spending a year developing his so called “workable plan” Governor Jon S. Corzine has decided (after spending approximately $8,000,000. in studies) that what the taxpayers of the state need is another state agency. The new agency the Public Benefit Corporation (PBC) would be charged with paying off the existing debt and
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Ho, ho, ho, Ocean City, start planning for a tax hike. Required spending forcing city budget to increase By ERIC AVEDISSIAN, Ocean City Sentinel, 12/27/2007 OCEAN CITY – Increases in pension costs, health care and salaries will affect the 2008 budget and city’s tax rate, auditor Leon Costello told city council Tuesday. Costello gave a
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On September 26th in a case involving the City of Trenton, the New Jersey Supreme Court overruled the Cuprowski decision as it applied to public referendums. The Court adopted the plain language of N.J.S.A. 40:69A-185 providing voters of Faulkner Act municipalities the right to subject any ordinance to referendum unless exempted by State Statute. The
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Proponents of positive change in Ocean City can truthfully say, to paraphrase Mark Twain’s comment on his premature obituary, that the rumors of reform’s demise in this town are greatly exaggerated. Not that there isn’t a large kernel of truth in them. Reform in Ocean City is certainly ailing, and it will die if more
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