Feedback and Notes: Municipal and BOE websites, Newspaper articles:
Garwood Sewer 2015 = $540000;
Garwood $7.6-million budget that was unveiled March 6;
average county tax increase county-wide is 2.98 percent;
Garwood BOE Adopts $9-Million Spending Plan, 90% from property tax; 2016: Westfield
will pay an additional $1,168,271
for a total of $39,321,123; Scotch
Plains will pay $21,019,506, a hike
of $365,206; Fanwood’s county tax
will be $6,022,379, a jump of
$321,917; Cranford will pay
$21,264,339, up $1,215,146; Garwood’s tax is $3,333,859, down
$43,581, while Mountainside will
pay $9,222,251, an increase of
$365,910.
Project new residents developer in his doc he handed out forecasts 500 residents,
Project new school kids developer in his doc he handed out forecasts 20 kids tops;
Capital Projects required ($2 million?) schools, etc.-at this point we see no capital projects required-the washington school that is being rented to the YMCA has 4 extra classrooms (that handles
about 75 kids-but it would incur additional teaching and principal and overhead
costs. (the old days Quigly wore both hats-supt and principal over at washington) if more than 20 kids guess of teachers at base salary and benefits plus overhead, say around $150k;
What
other factors should be considered? Capital
expenditures in the near future is a new fire truck since it will be a four
story building: New truck est
cost= $1 mill; Maybe
landfill costs and street light electric; I
started some misc comps on my TREE if you want to review: http://treeeditor.blogspot.com/2016/04/nothingyet222-city-of-garwood.html
- Can affordable housing be age restricted so as not to allow school kids? I asked about age restricted a year ago, victor
vinegra said no; something about we have a quota for that from the village already. |