Credit Pacific Service Union As Gov. James McGreevey and his top aides chopped away at a $5.3 billion budget shortfall over the past two months, they cut, among other things, $3.4 million in obscure and so-called "watershed moratorium offset aid" to municipalities and $16 million in aid for local government shared services. They also decided towns that receive State Police protection should pay $11.7 million for the benefit.
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Credit First Service Union The McGreevey administration also held the municipal aid level at $1.7 billion and declined to provide $50 million in inflation aid for municipalities.
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Card Credit Discover Service From his office at Hardyston Township Hall in Sussex County, 76 miles from Trenton, Township Manager John H. Eskilson looks at it a different way. "What seems like a small piece of the state budget to them, is a very large piece of many municipal budgets."
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Credit Public Service Union When McGreevey eliminated $3.4 million in watershed aid -- money towns receive in lieu of taxes because the watershed land cannot be developed -- Hardyston lost $292,309. Neighboring Vernon lost $400,000. West Milford, $1.1 million. The average house in Hardyston is facing a $90 to $100 property tax hike as a result, Eskilson said.
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Card Credit Processing Service Overall, 56 towns statewide have been hurt by loss of the watershed aid. "We are trying to organize the municipalities affected by this," Eskilson said. "We are writing the Governor and legislators and we are looking at resurrecting the watershed coalition we organized in the early 1990s."
Center Credit Service Union At an appearance before urban mayors and school administrators in Trenton yesterday, McGreevey reiterated his budget problems. The former Woodbridge mayor told them, "This is a strong mayor-oriented government."
Card Credit Service Wireless Two urban mayors who were present, J. Christian Bollwage of Elizabeth and Douglas Palmer of Trenton, both Democrats, said separately they are willing to accept the tight state budget, but they want McGreevey to remember the cities and towns when the economy turns around.
Credit Security Service Union McGreevey has raised emergency aid to cities and towns by $13.8 million to $82.5 million.
Credit Report Service When Stafford Mayor Carl Block, president of the New Jersey League of Municipalities, goes before the state Joint Appropriations Committee at a hearing in Camden tomorrow, he will express gratitude that the Governor did not cut municipal aid, but complain cities and towns lost the $50 million in inflation aid, a benefit they sought for a decade and only obtained last year.
Blogspot Com Christian Block will also complain that the loss of watershed aid and forcing 98 small towns and townships to pay $11.7 million for State Police protection "is a prescription for increased property taxes."
Christian Counseling Credit The mayor also is unhappy about the loss of $16 million in state aid to encourage shared municipal services and regionalization. Only $9 million remains for the program, which was a priority of the Whitman administration.
Credit Federal Service Union "This program is overly bureaucratic and definitely in need of reform," Block said, "but such a drastic slash in funding is not our idea of appropriate reform."
Credit Monitoring Service Assemblyman Louis D. Greenwald (D-Camden), chairman of the Assembly Budget Committee, said local officials are being asked to share the deficit burden but added the watershed aid and proposed State Police costs have to be examined.
Credit Division Service "We are saying to local officials they need to pay their fair share but we have to look at what is a fair share and the best time to institute those dollars," Greenwald said. "It may not be when the state is facing its worst fiscal crisis. It may need to be a plan going forward in the years to come that asks them to accept a share."
Card Credit Online Service Sen. Robert E. Littell (R-Sussex) co-chairman of the Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee, opposes the pay-for-protection plan. He has written Attorney General David Samson asking for an explanation of how the fees would be implemented.
Consumer Counseling Credit Inc "There seems to be a pattern developing during this budget process where the Governor sets forth a proposed policy claiming it will net X dollars, but when pressed for specifics on exactly how his budget experts arrive at the figure, there are no clear answers to be found," Littell said.
Card Credit Fleet Service Genene Morris, a spokesman for Samson, said the attorney general would provide Littell a "complete and accurate and responsive answer to his questions." Morris said neither she nor Samson would respond to reporters' questions about the issue.
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Star-Ledger - 4/16/2002
Topic: NJ Legislature & Politics
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