PETERSBURG – During Upper Township Committee’s Jan. 23 meeting, Mayor Jay Newman and Township Administrator Gary DeMarzo discussed the upcoming finalization of the municipal budget.
Both Newman and DeMarzo referred to a sum of $200,000 that needs to be cut from Upper’s budget this year, as is required by state law, to stay under mandatory spending caps.
Per DeMarzo, the 2023 budget reflects “numbers that are very conservative for both the 2023, as well as the 2024, budgets, with some capital improvements and bonding expected for this year.”
The municipality plans a budget workshop Feb. 13 to discuss and then approve final figures and spending.
The Herald requested information from municipal officials as to how it intends to find the $200,000 it needs to cut, as well as from which spending line items in the budget the cut will come.
The request was made so that residents would have these vital details before the budget workshop and final budget approval, and to help improve the problems of governing transparency from which Upper seems to suffer, as described by resident criticism and as reported by the Herald.
Chief Financial Officer Barbara Ludy referred the Herald’s questions to DeMarzo, who did not reply to the Herald’s request for information.
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