CAPE MAY – Cape May City Council adopted the 2019 budget totaling $31 million April 16.
The general purpose budget contains appropriations of $20 million with the remainder of the budget spread over the city’s three self-liquidating utilities: Water and Sewer, $7.1 million; Beach, $2.6 million; and Tourism, $1.3 million.
Rising expenses related to recycling and additional fire department personnel led to an increase in the local purpose tax rate which moved from $0.3500 to $0.3625, an increase of $0.0125, per $100 of assessed value.
The increase in the local tax rate was largely a result of the city’s decision to take recycling efforts in-house after spikes in private sector contracting costs, along with a commitment by the city to add one firefighter per shift to the fire department. Funds were also increased to improve the city’s visitor and transportation services.
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