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>Task force: Eliminating, downsizing Bergen County Police ‘ill-advised’

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 photo by Boyd LovingTask force: Eliminating, downsizing Bergen County Police ‘ill-advised’ TUESDAY, APRIL 17, 2012   BY JAMES QUIRKSTAFF WRITERTHE RECORD  Read the report (PDF) http://dng.northjersey.com/media_server/tr/2012/04/17report/consolidation.pdf A volunteer task force assembled by Bergen [...]

>Police consolidation report awaits towns’ response reaction

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Police consolidation report awaits towns’ response reaction Speaking to a group of reporters in his downtown offices’ fourth-floor media room last week, Somerset County Prosecutor Geoffrey Soriano sat not 20 feet from a framed map of the county ringed by the badges of each of its 19 police [...]

>Vote was perhaps easiest piece of merging the Princeton’s

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Vote was perhaps easiest piece of merging the Princeton’s In some ways, getting voters in Princeton borough and township to agree last year to merge may have been the easiest part of the process. Since January 31, the Transition Task Force working to implement the consolidation has held 38 full [...]

>Passaic, N.J. Considers Charging For Emergency Calls

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Passaic, N.J. Considers Charging For Emergency CallsHow Does $1,000 For House Fires And $600 For Car Fires Grab You?March 30, 2012 5:00 PM ASSAIC, NJ (CBSNewYork) – When emergency crews respond to a car or building fire in Passaic, a bill might soon be sent out. When the Passaic City Council meets [...]

>Home Rule: The biggest savings would come from doing away with most of the county government

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Home Rule: The biggest savings would come from doing away with most of the county government  I think the biggest savings would come from doing away with most of the county goverment. The circus act that our elected county officals of both parties have been for the last decade or more is a [...]

>Home rule is best

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Home rule is best  I do like Kathy Donovan but I think there is more to it. As written in North Jersey Media. piece ; according to Little Ferry Borough Administrator Michael Capabianco, the contract offered to Teterboro by County P D is $100,000 a year for three years. We all know a police [...]

>Donovan says home rule is costing Bergen too much

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Donovan says home rule is costing Bergen too much WEDNESDAY MARCH 14, 2012, 9:13 PMBY JOHN C. ENSSLIN AND JAMES QUIRKSTAFF WRITERSTHE RECORD Bergen County’s tradition of home rule is costing taxpayers far too much money, County Executive Kathleen Donovan said Wednesday in championing an effort to [...]

>Tepid support as Sweeney renews pitch for shared services

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Tepid support as Sweeney renews pitch for shared services New Jersey’s difficulty in consolidating and regionalizing school districts is well-known, but even a plan to just share services is proving easier said than done. Senate President Stephen Sweeney (D-Gloucester) has called expanded shared [...]

>Another transplant says shared services lead to poor service and no cost savings

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Another transplant says shared services lead to poor service and no cost savings I am a transplant from high taxed Nassau County where my husband and I grew up and started our family. Our regional police force was the Nassau County PD. I can tell you first hand that none of us would be happy with a [...]

>Readers Skeptical of Shared Services

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Readers Skeptical of Shared Services  I grew up and bought my first house in York County Pennsylvania which is made of seventy-two different municipalities from small quaint boroughs where everybody knows everyone else to large urban communities such as Hanover and the City of York. Back in the [...]

>N.J. survey shows local governments turned to shared services, surplus funds to hold 2 percent property tax cap

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N.J. survey shows local governments turned to shared services, surplus funds to hold 2 percent property tax cap The governments of New Jersey cities and towns turned to sharing public services and using surplus funds to comply with a new state mandate that property taxes can increase by no more [...]

>Princeton merger vote tests Christie’s attempt to shrink towns

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Princeton merger vote tests Christie’s attempt to shrink towns The two New Jersey municipalities that share the Princeton name with the Ivy League university may become the first test case of Governor Chris Christie’s campaign to cut government costs by merging towns. Residents of [...]

>Efforts by Princeton, NJ show challenges in municipal mergers, even when they make sense

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Efforts by Princeton, NJ show challenges in municipal mergers, even when they make sense Fewer than 30,000 people call Princeton home, but two of them are mayors. There are also two police chiefs, two treasurers, two administrators and two public works superintendents in this community best known [...]

>New law eases municipal consolidation

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New law eases municipal consolidation Gov. Chris Christie signed legislation Wednesday that will ease municipal consolidation, opening the door for further study of a Cherry Hill-Merchantville merger. (Cooney, [...]

>Readers Continue to doubt value of "shared services"

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Readers Continue to doubt value of “shared services” This is a very poor idea. We should be looking to reduce or do away with county government, not expand it. A county police force in Camden County is nothing more than a bail out of the City of Camden. It will force suburban communities to reduct [...]

>Shared Services: Christie: ‘Seize the moment,’ share patrols

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Christie: ‘Seize the moment,’ share patrolsGov. Chris Christie and Senate President Stephen M. Sweeney Wednesday said it was time to “seize the moment” and move toward regional public safety services. (Mast and Roh, The [...]

>Forced sharing won’t work, some town officials say

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Forced sharing won’t work, some town officials say You don’t have to tell Mayor Julie Schreck about the value of towns sharing services.Schreck, in the middle of her first term as mayor, said the small seaside borough has been sharing services and equipment with neighboring towns for years. [...]
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