Middletown Has A Budget
The Middletown Township Committee blew through the Corzine 4% property tax cap, with the approval of the Department of Community Affairs, passing a budget that increased municpal spending by 4.5% and increased the tax levy for muncipal purposes by 13.4%. The budget was passed on Tuesday night, according to the Asbury Park Press.
During an interview with MoreMonmouthMusings in July, Mayor Gerry Scharfenberger outlined the budgetary challenges the committee faced this year, i.e., $1million more than expected in snow removal, the unused sick time and vacation time being paid to early retirees and the loss of state funding. He argued that Middletown is the victim of its own efficiencies with so little the cut and spoke hopefully of Governor Christie’s proposed “tool kit” that would untie municipal leaders hands in reducing mandated costs and employee policies. That interview can be viewed in three parts here, here and here.
Democratic Committee member Sean Byrnes was the lone vote against the budget, saying the committee should have taken a “hardline” with the municipal unions and cut back drastically on recreation spending, according to the APP account of the Tuesday meeting.
Scharfenberger and Byrnes are facing each other in this November’s election, as both of their terms are expiring. Scharfenberger and his running mate Kevin Settembrino are hoping to return the governing body to 5-0 GOP control. Byrnes and his running mate Mary Mahoney hope to maintain or expand the Democratic participation on the committee.
Can anyone name a municipality in New Jersey where Democrats are doing a better job than Republicans are doing in Middletown?
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I find it difficult to swallow that a municipality, the size of Middletown, finally passed their 2010 budget in September of the same year. That’s not a good selling point for the Mayor. Actually, it shows a lack of leadership on his part as well as the four members of his party. Leadership is needed now, more than ever before, because of the challenges that lay ahead. Leadership dictates that they should be proactive, and not reactive. Any one can react to a situation, but it takes a leader to be proactive, make the hard choices, even when it hurts. Take Gov Christie for example, He has made some difficult, and un-popular decisions, he has lead, which I find ironic, since this is what I expected from Corizine. We need leadership, and not follower-ship. Maybe its the Navy Officer within me, who is venting at the lack of leadership within this governing body of 4 Republicans, but they have not demonstrated the leadership we need, and quite frankly, we deserve. So, set up the finance committee we so desperately need, Televise the committee meetings for all to see, reach across party lines and work together for the benefit of the electorate, more importantly, the taxpayer!
So, over 13% of an increase and you’re ok with that? Wow…I would have figured you would have at least come down a little on Gerry for such a massive increase when people are hurting so much.
Guess I was wrong.
Wait, A Democrat is calling for a hard line with the Unions.
Have I entered the Twilight Zone?