COURT HOUSE – Middle Township Committee adopted its 2019 budget April 15 which called for an increase in the municipal tax levy. The tax rate, however, remains at $.483 per $100 of assessed value.
The general purpose budget for 2019 is $22.2 million and the Sewer Utility budget was set at $5.4 million.
Police salaries and employee health insurance costs head the list of township expenses. Debt service expense was only 6% of the budget showing what the township’s auditor called a conservative approach to capital spending.
One area of concern in the budget was the continued problem of high adjustments made to Cape May County Municipal Utilities Authority (MUA) charges each of the last three years based on Middle Township’s percentage of total county sewer flows.
Over and above the budgeted payments for MUA fees, the adjustments burdened the township with over $1 million in added fees over a three-year period.
Mayor Timothy Donohue said the township was working “on several fronts” to get a better handle on the increased charges. Donohue pointed to a recently authorized study of the township’s sewer system, parts of which date to the 1930s.
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