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Ridgewood NJ, a municipal tax increase of 4.83% was approved by Ridgewood Village Council members on Thursday evening, 04/27 via a 4-0 roll call vote. Councilperson Lorraine Reynolds was absent. There were no public comments made during the Budget Hearing.
Continue reading Ridgewood Taxpayers Hit with Largest Municipal Tax Increase Since 2011
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Ridgewood NJ, according to several sources a Ridgewood homeowner was taken in for a psychological evaluation following a brief incident involving a report of a gun on Saturday morning. After recent events in Buffalo New York and Uvalde Texas, police and first responders are in a heightened sense of alert .
Continue reading Ridgewood Police Quickly Defuse Potentially Dangerous Situation with Homeowner
July 29,2016
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Fair Lawn NJ, Governor Chris Christie took his #fairschoolfunding message to Fair Lawn in Bergen County on Thursday, making the case for a new K-12 state aid formula to a town hall audience .
Governor Chris Christie proposed drastic changes to New Jersey’s school-aid formula that would distribute an equal amount for each student regardless of income, a move that would redirect money from cities to suburbs.
Over the past 30 years, New Jersey taxpayers have sent $97 billion to those 31 systems, while the other 546 have received $9 billion less. Worse yet by all standards the Abbott Schools have been a complete failure and are in violation of the very law that requires them to exist.
The average Ridgewood homeowner would save the second most at $4209 in Bergen County after Tenafly at $4478 .
Even Steve Sweeney’s home town, a leading opponent of the plan, way down in South Jersey would receive 58% more funding per student in addition to average net property tax decreases.
