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Dear Neighbor:
First, I want to thank you again for all of your support and well wishes and to share with you the highlights of our first 100 days in office.
The budget we presented to the Board of Freeholders is a whopping $30 million less than the budget proposed by my Democrat predecessor.
- We have not added even one additional nickel to the County’s debt.
- We have eliminated hundreds of cars from the County fleet and will be selling these excess vehicles at auction this spring and have cancelled all no-bid contracts saving millions of taxpayer dollars in the process.
- I have vetoed the minutes of the Bergen County Utilities Authority, Bergen County Improvement Authority and Northwest Bergen Sewer Authority whenever these agencies have violated my strict rules on unnecessary spending and as a result have saved hundreds of thousands of dollars in the process.
- We brought accountability and transparency to Bergen Community College without impacting the college’s mission.
- We cancelled the Democrats plan to spend $2.6 million of your money to purchase a private theater.
- Through our strict, conservative, fiscal policies we have not only frozen your County taxes but have actually reduced County taxes overall by some $75,000.
Yes, we have kept every campaign promise and more. We have restored fiscal and moral integrity to Bergen County and returned good government and all of its benefits to you the taxpayers while stomping out political abuse. You are the real winners. And the losers are those politicians, contractors and vendors who have profited at your expense for the past decade with no bid contracts and excessive spending!
Sincerely,
Kathleen A. Donovan
Bergen County Executive
Bergen County Executive
