Vol. 6 - No. 50
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Stafford Adopts $48M Budget
By Kimberly Bosco STAFFORD – On May 21, the new members of the Stafford Township Council adopted their first municipal budget with the help of new administrator Matthew von der Hayden. T he 2019 mu nicipal operating budget totals $48,207,774.49, with $37,619,532.57 to be raised by taxation. The tax rate for 2019 is calculated at 0.894. Stafford residents will see less than a $20 increase on their municipal property tax payment from 2018 to 2019. According to von der Hayden, the average residence is assessed at $329,009.89 for 2019. The average tax payment for 2018 was estimated at $2,921.61. For 2019, that number is $2,941.35. Thus, residents will see an increase of $19.74 per household on their residential tax payment this year. The municipal budget is decreasing overall from 2018 to 2019 by approximately $820,513. In 2018, residents saw $49,028,287.94 in general appropriations. According to von der Hayden, the major decreases stem from a $59,000 decrease in administration salary and wages as well as a $437,500 decrease in employee group insurance. One of the major increases to the budget is due to a $456,562 increase to salary and wages, “which were contractual increases from the 2017-2020 contracts,” von der Hayden wrote in an email.
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Surprise, Surprise… Eggs Reduce Risk Of Stroke
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–Photo by Kimberly Bosco Animals like these are up for adoption at the Toms River Animal Shelter at 235 Oak Ave. By Chris Lundy and Kimberly Bosco JERSEY SHORE – It seems that there is a lot of bad news lately about suffering animals. Geese being attacked. A service dog-in-training killed. A cat shot with a crossbow. The other geese being attacked. The natural instinct when reading these articles is outrage. How could someone do such a thing? Who is really the animal here?
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Experts: These Are The Barriers To Solving Opioid Crisis By Chris Lundy TOMS RIVER – A Town Hallstyle meeting of people on the front lines of the opioid epidemic was held recently. The goal: to identify the roadblocks to solving the crisis. The meeting was held at the Toms River branch of the Ocean County library, hosted by Congressman
Andy Kim (D-3rd). He said addiction has been mentioned at every town hall he’s hosted, but he’s just not seeing the same level of urgency in Washington, D.C. According to state figures, there were 3,118 deaths suspected of overdose in 2018. As of June 3, the figure for 2019 is 871. (The state
uses the term “suspected” deaths because until the lab tests confirm, the victim is only suspected of dying from an overdose.) But these are just statistics, and they hide the personal impact that drugs have. That’s why there were several people at the town hall who told their story.
Lisa Cook lost her 25-year-old daughter, Danielle, last year. Danielle was the type of person who once pulled over when she saw an elderly couple having trouble, and took time out to help them. She didn’t know that a boyfriend had laced marijuana with harder (Crisis - See Page 5)
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