Post Tagged with: "Taxes"
About That State School Money For Montclair
“Geez,” a fellow pool-goer said to me the other day, “did you see all that state aid Montclair got for its schools? How come Verona didn’t get it?” The short answer is, because it would have been a really bad idea right now, and here’s why. New Jersey, in its infinite tighten-the-budget wisdom, just doled [...]
Mystery Mail On The Budget
People enjoy mysteries. Just look at how many folks are reading Stieg Larsson’s books around Verona Pool this summer. But I have to admit that I am baffled by the mystery mail that I got the other day. Addressed to “VERONA RESIDENT”, it looked as if it had been typed on an old Remington; no [...]
Cedar Grove Gets OK To Exceed State Tax Cap
Before you hold Cedar Grove up as a model of fiscal discipline, consider this: The town has just won the right boost its taxes above the state’s 4% cap. Cedar Grove joins Montclair, Roseland and Irvington in the ranks of Essex County towns that will be over the cap. According to a spokesperson at the [...]
VTV To Air Town Council Meeting
Jim Thomas, who runs Verona’s community television channel programming, was out of town last week when the Town Council meeting was met with an overflow crowd protesting the rise in taxes. He’s back now and the video from the meeting will be up on VTV tonight–and every night this week–at 7 p.m. Thomas normally programs [...]
Property Tax Break For Seniors Extended
If you, or a senior citizen that you know, participates in New Jersey’s “Senior Freeze” property tax program and missed the June 1 filing deadline, you’re in luck: The state has extended the filing deadline until August 2. The Freeze is a separate program from the state’s byzantine property tax rebate effort, which was given [...]
Property Taxes On Town Council Agenda Tonight
You’ve probably figured out by now that you can’t just multiply your third-quarter tax bill by four to get your total property tax tab for the year. But if the tax math still mystifies you, you might want to attend the Verona Township Council meeting tonight, July 12. There will be an extensive presentation on [...]
Week In Review: Diner Fire, Bank Robbery, Taxing Students
A lunch-time kitchen fire briefly shut the Pilgrim Diner in Cedar Grove on Thursday. But the diner was again operating to a packed parking lot by the weekend. Baristanet reported a bank robbery at the Wachovia branch on Bloomfield Avenue in Glen Ridge. The Glen Ridge Police Department isn’t saying how much money was taken, [...]
Montclair May Face Double-Digit Tax Hike
The budget pain just keeps getting worse for Montclair. First, its residents were hit with a school spending plan that cuts 82 positions from classes, administration and after-school activities. On Tuesday, they got the bad news about the municipal budget. Montclair faces a $5.1 million gap and, to close it, the township manager has drafted [...]
School Budget Uncertain
Verona residents have plenty of uncertainty to deal with on the tax front these days. What the recent property tax reval will mean to household bottom lines probably won’t be known until the summer, after the town’s fiscal year starts. The school budget is in limbo, too, but for an entirely different reason. School officials [...]