By Sara Martino
Gloucester City News
Gloucester City Council approved the $17.84 million 2011 Municipal Budget during its meeting last week that will raise taxes $38.16 per year.
No one from the audience spoke during the public hearing prior to the budget vote.
\”We kept the tax rate to a $38.16 increase on the average property assessed at
$72, 000,\” Councilman Nicholas Marchese said.
Marchese and Councilmen Jay Brophy and Daniel Spencer of the Finance Committee, worked on the budget for months, he said.
\”This budget is $1.3 million less than last year. We used 77 percent of the city’s surplus towards the budget, paid our pensions payments, and gave a 2 percent raise to the employees,\” Marchese said.
The surplus amount that was used towards the general budget was $1.58 million.
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