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Ridgewood Council hopes for no tax increase

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Ridgewood Council hopes for no tax increase
Thursday March 14, 2013, 5:24 PM
BY  DARIUS AMOS
STAFF WRITER
The Ridgewood News

The Ridgewood governing body hopes to produce a 2013 budget containing a zero percent municipal tax increase, but council members agree that their efforts should not result in employee layoffs.

A preliminary spending plan detailed by Village Manager Ken Gabbert last week represented a 1.5 percent tax increase over last year, upping the average tax bill by $225. The proposal included roughly $600,000 of added revenue and expense reductions, but still left the council searching for another $460,000 in order to reach a flat tax.

The total budget, offered this month as merely a working draft, stood at $44.9 million, a figure that did not include any staff reductions or layoffs. In comparison, the 2012 total budget was $45.2 million.

“We’re under last year’s budget by $240,000 … but because of the way structure is, there is still a tax increase,” Gabbert said. “The task was to keep the tax collected from the residents equal to 2012.”

The difference between last year’s tax levy and the figure based on the 2013 draft is $1.1 million.

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7 thoughts on “Ridgewood Council hopes for no tax increase

  1. Never happen.

  2. Hope and No Change ???

  3. “Hope” is not a strategy. There are many ways to reduce the expenses in the village without reducing services and without significant layoffs. All it takes is leadership and a decision to take action to change how the village operates. Unfortunately “leadership” is in short supply within the ranks of management and the Village Council in Ridgewood.

    1. Shows how little you know…

      Hope and Lack of Leadership wins elections… as evidenced by the voting history of Ridgewood on the local and national level.

      Hope and Lack of Leadership is a perfect stategy for winning elections and staying in power around here.

  4. You have to start with selling off properties and then controlling long term debt. The town could get rid of the ems building and put them down near signal, that would give the town some capital, and put another rateable on the tax role, sell the horse farm, and sell the schedler property, the schedler prop could be rezoned to allow a rateable, there is a piece of property near e saddle river and rt17 south that is currently residential that could be rezoned for another rateable and find a way if any to make valley pay property tax on the hospital site. These are all Ideas that could be worked on.

  5. every one’s tax’es are going up in the u s a. so stop.

  6. So stop what?

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