Nutley Commissioners Discuss Early Town Budget Issues

Commissioners start discussion about everything from pensions, to employee salary contracts and employee dental benefits at the first public meeting of 2013 on Thursday night.

The first Board of Commissioners meeting of 2013 brought the first specific talk of the challenges coming in this year's municipal budget process in Nutley. Commissioner Thomas Evans began the discussion by telling the other commissioners that a temporary budget, representing a little more than 25 percent of the eventual 2013 municipal budget that gets passed, has to be introduced to meet state statutes. Last year's budget contained a small tax increase of less than $100 for a home assessed at the then-township average. "By our next meeting we need to start earnest discussions of the budget," Evans said. "We have to make sure we make it under the levy spending cap of 2.5 percent. We want to revisit this next time, and have conversations." …

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