Tonight, The Hudson County Board of Freeholders is hosting one of their budget meetings for the presentation of the 2013 County Budget. At the behest of Mayor Dawn Zimmer of Hoboken and the mayor's of Weehawken and Secaucus the meeting is being held at Hoboken City Council Chambers to allow local residents to voice their concerns. Coming in at a whopping half a billion dollars, the County Budget is a leviathan of which Hoboken pays the greatest share per resident. According to the 2010 census, Hoboken with a population of 50,005 is only 7.9% of the populations but with a tax burden of over $50 million dollars Hoboken pays at least 17% percent of all of Hudson County tax burden and perhaps even more after the latest $5 million increase from last year. When you factor in the fact that Hoboken sees no where near that tax levy back in services the wide disparity between taxes and services is even more apparent.
Department heads for the Sheriff’s Department, Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office, Hudson County Corrections Department and the Office of Emergency Management will present their budgets at tonight's meeting, which is scheduled for a start time for 6 p.m.
The link to the proposed budget is below.....
http://www.hudsoncountynj.org/SharedFiles/Download.aspx?pageid=32&mid=326&fileid=421
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