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Twp. of Washington NJ, PSE&G Gas Division will be installing a new gas main on Hudson Avenue from Manhattan Avenue, through the parking lot of town hall. Weather permitting, work is expected to begin on or about Monday June 26. The project is expected to last approximately 2-3 days. Construction will take place from approximately 7:30am – 6:00pm.
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Twp. of Washington NJ, TOWNSHIP OFFICES CLOSED TO THE PUBLIC – due to the newest wave of Covid 19 spread, town hall will be closed to non employees until at least 1/17/22. All department personnel are still working in person and remotely according to previous safety protocol and are accessible via telephone and email.
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Ridgewood NJ, Congressman Josh Gottheimer has been invited to a public town hall on April 22 by a coalition of 13 grassroots groups who are his constituents in NJ Congressional District 5. While the Representative’s attendance is not expected, residents are encouraged to attend, ask questions, and share their concerns with their representative and each other. Everything will be shared with the Congressman following the event.
Continue reading A PUBLIC TOWN HALL WITH QUESTIONS FROM CONSTITUENTS FOR REP JOSH GOTTHEIMER IN NJ CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT 5
…lots of people were lined up in town hall paying a years worth of taxes without ever consulting their accountants or knowing how it will impact (negatively or positively) their taxes for 2017 (or 2018).
There were some people who knew exactly what they wanted to achieve and were strategically pre-paying, but there were lots of FOMO lemmings out there throwing money at the tax collector.
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Don’t believe me, go to the tax collector on the 3rd floor of town hall tomorrow and Friday and survey the people… most do not know exactly how much they should pre-pay to achieve a specific desired effect… most are just panic pre-paying on the basis of what they read online or what a friend’s friend told them they should be doing.
A couple of tips from Assemblywomen Holly Schepisi in evaluating 2018 tax planning:
1. Call your accountant and discuss your individual circumstance prior to pre-paying anything.
2. If you are subject to the Alternative Minimum Tax you will receive NO benefit by pre paying your taxes.
3. Do not prepay an entire year
4. Notwithstanding some of the hysteria and doomsday reports for NJ residents, a liberal think tank put forth a report yesterday that less than 11 percent of those in NJ will see any increase in overall taxes as a result of the new federal tax plan and most of these people fall into high or very high income ranges. 5. Today, Governor Christie issued the following executive order which mandates municipalities accept
Prepayment Of 2018 Property
May 25,2017
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Paramus NJ, Under recent affordable housing rulings by the NJ Supreme Court, our communities are being forced to permit construction of up to 1.5 MILLION new units of unneeded housing in order to satisfy a fictitious population increase of 30 percent in the next 9 years.
Protect our State from ridiculous affordable housing court mandates (which may result in over 1.5 MILLION new units of housing in NJ) by supporting A-4666 and A-4667 to stop the Court actions and study the issue while we still can.
Many of our NJ residents are unaware that their communities will be forced to DOUBLE their housing population in just the next 9 years, destroying all existing housing prices.
Assemblywoman Holly Schepisi is now asking of volunteers. “I’m going to need all volunteers willing to help. I’ve received permission to host a “town hall” session on June 15th at 5:30 at Bergen Community College in Paramus. If the NJ Legislature won’t hold meetings on housing affordability and court forced overdevelopment, I will. The intent of this meeting is to host an open hearing to gain thoughts, concerns and options from members of the public, Mayors and Councils, planners, engineers, traffic experts, board of education members, environmental groups, etc. I will personally pay for transcripts of this hearing and will have them delivered to the Legislature. This will be the first of numerous hearings held throughout the entire State. I will draft a formal letter tomorrow for distribution throughout the County. Anyone willing to help out in the circulation efforts would be greatly appreciated. If you have an hour or two to spare please call my office (201) 666-0881 and ask for Doreen.”