Monday, April 8, 2013
The council unanimously voted to approve the spending plan Monday.
The Chatham Borough Council unanimously approved the 2013 municipal budget during its Monday meeting. Under the spending plan, local taxes on the average Chatham Borough home assessed at $600,000 will rise $79 a year from $3,449 to $3,528 over the year. This includes the library tax and the fees for water, sewer and solid waste. The total budget allows for $13.6 million to run the borough for one full year. The overall tax levy for the borough is $7,540,389, an increase of 1.72 percent over the 2012 levy. The remainder of the funds will be provided by leases, parking fees, state aid and other municipal revenues. The borough passed with a unanimous 5-0 vote and without public comment or further discussion by the council. Councilman John …
Chatham Borough Council President Len Resto will have his last meeting Monday.
The Chatham Borough Council will vote on a resolution honoring one of their own Monday. Chatham Borough Council President Len Resto will resign from his position after Monday's meeting due to a new job which will take him from Chatham to Pennsylvania. The council will vote on a resolution honoring his volunteer efforts to the borough before he resigns. The resolution, as currently drafted in the agenda for the meeting, cites Resto's "expertise and knowledge about insurance," which the borough has utilized on numerous occasions. It also notes "his kindness, compassion and fairness when dealing with residents of the community, visitors and especially the borough employees." After Resto leaves, the local political committee of his party (in …
Sunday, March 24, 2013
The council meets Monday evening.
The Chatham Borough Council will vote on an ordinance establishing a cap bank as part of the 2013 municipal budget. The cap is the difference between the maximum allowable amount the borough could possibly raise taxes and the amount they actually raise taxes. Under the new budget guidelines passed by Gov. Chris Christie and the state legislature in 2009, the borough can establish a banked cap for that difference and potentially draw on it in the next three years without requiring a vote on the budget. If the ordinance passes, the cap bank will go into effect for the 2013 budget. The council is expected to go into executive session to discuss a lease agreement with PSE&G, who recently revoked a lease allowing the Chatham Borough Community …
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Borough residents will have to pay a $5 increase to park at the train station.
Chatham Borough Councilman James Lonergan said there will be a slight increase in parking fees in 2014. Presently the only fee increase he announced is to Lots Nos. 1 and 2 at the Chatham NJ Transit station, both in the north and south lot. In 2013 the fee was $420; In 2014, the fee will be $425. Lonergan said he has looked into parking fees in other nearby towns to compareChatham's rates to others. A full presentation is upcoming, Lonergan said, but he believes Chatham's rates are about half of Summit's and are almost identical to Madison's. "Short Hills and Millburn, I believe, were $360 for the first car, $450 for the second," he said. "We are still assessing daily rates." Lonergan will give a full presentation of the 2013 budget at …
Borough Taxpayer
4:06 pm on Tuesday, April 9, 2013
Based on the presentation on the Borough's website, I believe the article should properly read that the average increase for the year (on approx. $600,000 home) is about $79 or an increase for the year from about $3,449 to about $3,528. Of course, many will argue that it is "only" $79. Setting aside that many people's homes are valued in excess of $600,000, the size of the increase is not the … more ›