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Mayors to Christie: Time to give us our money back
The lobbyist for the state’s 566 municipalities is calling on the Christie Administration to hand over more than $700 million in revenue they say legally belongs to local governments.
The State League of Municipalities has been in talks with the administration over Christie’s use of energy tax receipts to balance the state budget. League officials say the money is by law the property of the municipalities. The state merely collects it on their behalf, officials say, before paying it out each year as one of two pools of state aid. (Isherwood, PolitickerNJ)
