By ROBERT LINNEHAN | The Cherry Hill Sun A packed Cherry Hill High School East auditorium filled with Cherry Hill taxpayers and students decried Gov. Christie’s plan to cut state aid to the Cherry Hill School District by more than 51 percent last week. Some laughed. Some cried. Some directed their ire up north to [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, March 18, 2010
By ROBERT LINNEHAN The Cherry Hill Sun In the wake of Gov. Chris Christie and the state drastically slashing aid to school districts last Wednesday, municipalities throughout New Jersey faced their own cut just the next day. Municipalities throughout the state saw their state aid totals decreased across the board from last year’s rate late [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, March 9, 2010
By ROBERT LINNEHAN | The Cherry Hill Sun Members of council approved a revised 2010 fiscal year budget at an active public meeting last night. At this point, the action could possibly negate the decrease in taxes the council approved several months ago, representatives said, but it is too soon to tell. Several council members [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, March 3, 2010
By ROBERT LINNEHAN | The Cherry Hill Sun Voters have approved the Cherry Hill Fire District’s $25 million 2010 budget and elected three fire commissioners who ran unopposed for three open seats on the Fire District Commission. The 2010 budget passed by a vote of 641 to 381. The budget contains no increase in the [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, February 17, 2010
By ROBERT LINNEHAN | The Cherry Hill Sun Residents will have their chance to decide the fate of the 2010 Cherry Hill Fire District budget this Saturday, as fire district elections will be held from 2 p.m. to 9 p.m. Fire Chief Robert Giorgio announced that the proposed $25.04 million 2010 budget will include a [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, January 27, 2010
By ROBERT LINNEHAN | The Cherry Hill Sun Last year, the Cherry Hill Board of Education approved a budget for the 2009-10 school year that included no increase in the tax levy for Cherry Hill residents. This year, because of a large deficit between projected revenues and expenditures, a zero percent tax levy increase will [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, January 13, 2010
By ROBERT LINNEHAN | The Cherry Hill Sun It’s a new year and another budget season is looming for the Cherry Hill Board of Education. The school district has already scheduled three special budgetary meetings to keep township taxpayers up to speed during the annual process. The first special budget meeting has been scheduled for [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, June 17, 2009
By ROBERT LINNEHAN | The Cherry Hill Sun Residents can expect a flat tax rate moving forward into the new fiscal year and a reduction in their overall tax bills, according to township representatives. The Cherry Hill Council proposed its 2010 fiscal year budget, which will see an overall reduction of about $1 million from [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, May 20, 2009
By ROBERT LINNEHAN | The Cherry Hill Sun As a way to keep down costs for the current budget year, Cherry Hill representatives decided to utilize the recently approved Pension Deferral Bill to keep tax rates stable for the next several years. On March 16 the Pension Deferral Legislation was approved, which allows municipalities to [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, April 29, 2009
By ROBERT LINNEHAN | The Cherry Hill Sun For the third year in a row, Camden County Freeholders have reduced property taxes for county residents. The 2009 county budget was introduced on April 7 and proposed the lowest county tax rate in the past 50 years, according to the county. The freeholders said there would be [...]
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