Nutley Commissioners Pass Budget
Officials declined to average tax increase costs, saying fluctuating home values make determining an average impossible.
A month after presenting a $50 million budget that came in the wake of reductions, Nutley Commissioners passed a tightened budget. Nutley officials unanimously passed a $49,874,000 budget at their April 25 special public hearing. The budget is a $612,000 increase over the previous year and officials said that the budget increase was minimal compared with other state municipalities. “This continues our efforts for cost containment going in a volatile economic environment,” Commissioner Thomas Evans said. He also noted that the budget was able to absorb the cost of the previous year’s extraordinary storms. The largest costs were health insurance, other insurance, storm emergency spending and the reserve for uncollected taxes. Evans said …
