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2025 BUDGET
Budget Introduction –May 13, 2025
Budget Calendar - Action Dates
▪General Budget Presentation . . . . . . . . . May 13th
▪Cap Bank Ordinance Introduction
........................................May13th
▪Budget Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . May 13th
▪Cap Bank Ordinance Adoption
....................................... June11th
▪Budget recommended for adoption at
........................................June11th
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2025 Budget Process
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DEPARTMENT
BUDGETS
DEPARTMENT
BUDGET
MEETINGS
BUDGET
COMMITTEE
REVIEW &
DISCUSSION
PUBLIC
WORKSHOP
October 2024
All Departments
begin budget
process & submit
to
Administration
& Finance
November 2024 December 2024
–April 2025
Revisions &
Adjustments
submitted
May 13th,
2025 at 4:30pm
Budgetary Goal # 1
Demonstrate
strong financial
management and
sound fiscal
policies
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Action Items:
•Focus on long term fiscal health
of the Township –with particular
attention to affordability and
sustainability
•Provide exceptional municipal
services
•Protect essential infrastructure
•Minimize tax burden on residents
•Create & present the 2025 municipal
budget that keeps the tax levy
increase below the 2% Tax Levy Cap
and 2.5% Appropriations Cap
•Manage long term debt and
maintain the township’s debt
rating
•Ensure Best Practices are met to
continue to attain 100% of state
aid
Budget Goal # 2
Maintain &
upgrade critical
Township assets &
infrastructure
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Action Items:
•Complete infrastructure
improvements related to road
reconstruction and paving, sewer
and drainage, and upgrades to
Township owned property
including parks and buildings
•70 roads within Township to be
paved and or re-constructed in
2025 capital budget and through
negotiations with gas company
•Upgrade pump stations and storm
related resiliency
•Maintain/Upgrade DPW equipment
to ensure highest level of services
continue to be delivered
Budget Goal # 3
Action Items:
•Vision Zero
•Traffic and Pedestrian
Safety
•Traffic Enforcement
(Speed 2025)
•Structured Parking and
Parking Improvements
(lots & pay stations)
Smart Growth with Concern for
Traffic, Speeding, Parking and
Pedestrian Safety
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Budget Goal # 4
Park and
Recreation
Upgrades
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Action Items:
•Rabkin Phase 2
•Lightning Brook
•Zimmerman
•Joe Collins
•Freiberger Complex
•Bill Kolb
•Weber
•Irene Hoppe
•Alpine
•Davis
•Park Branding/Wayfinding
•Inclusive, diverse and
multicultural events
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Budget Goal # 5
PUBLIC SAFETY
INFRASTRUCTURE,
EQUIPMENT, STAFFING &
CRIME PREVENTION
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Action Items:
•Maintain Critical Staffing Levels
and Manpower
•Apparatus & Equipment
•Township Wide LPR and Theft
Prevention Measures
•Fiber Connectivity and Critical
Redundancy
Negative External Headwinds
External Factors Contributing to Increase in 2025
Budget
•0.5%---→Decrease in Ratables –adding $450,000
to the Budget
•16%----→Increase in Liability Insurance
•5.5% ---→Increase to State Mandated Employer
Pension Appropriation
•6.6%---→Increase to Health Benefits
•5.5%---→Increase in Debt Service Payments
•22%----→Increase to Garbage/Recycling
Contract
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2025 Budget Overview
Total Budget Increase: $4,865,798.38
Total % Increase: 3.69%
Notable Budget Impacts Increases:
* All other changes are minimal or inconsequential to the overall budget
increase
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Budget Area
Increase in Revenue Increase in Appropriation
General Revenues
$2,273,007.90
Garbage & Recycling Contract
$ 620,000.00
Pension Obligations
$ 724,944.00
Debt Service
$ 2,637,699.99
Library State
Minimum Apprpriation $ 215,894.00
Health Insurance and Liability Insurance
$ 850,000.00
Salary
& Wages $ 943,068.00
2025 Cap Calculation
Results
▪Under the 2% property tax levy cap by $495,214.20
▪2025 Levy 87,140,473.72; Max allowed 87,635,687.92
▪Under Appropriations cap by $ 2,948,833.15
▪2025 Appropriations w/in cap 111,758,838.00;
▪Max allowed 114,707,671.15
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General Fund
Revenues
2025 Anticipated
2024 Adopted Final Change
Fund Balance
$5,650,000.00
$9,000,000.00
($3,350,000.00)
Local Revenues
$14,745,500.00
$13,037,340.00
$1,708,160.00
State Aid
$6,211,058.00
$6,851,272.28
($640,214.28)
Construction Code
$1,890,000.00
$1,890,000.00
-
Shared Services
$906,900.00
$616,832.00
$290,068.00
Grants
$855,509.78
$1,506,564.39
($651,054.61)
Special Items of Revenue
$13,042,616.01
$11,059,676.11
$1,982,939.90
Receipts from Del. Taxes
$2,773,492.16
$2,341,417.02
$432,075.14
Municipal Tax Levy
$87,140,473.72
$82,262,543.49
$5,093,824.23
Library Tax Levy
$3,530,220.00
$3,314,326.00
$215,894.00
Total General Revenues
$136,745,769.67
$131,879,971.29
$4,865,798.38
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General Fund
Appropriations
Category Amount Category Amount
General Government
$ 8,595,730.00
Statutory Expenditures
$ 15,688,081.00
Municipal Court & Public
Defender
$ 1,390,750.00
Public Library
$ 3,530,220.00
Insurance
$ 22,562,000.00
Grants
$ 858,669.78
Public Safety
$ 42,920,025.00
CIP
$ 430,000.00
DPW
$ 6,183,500.00
Municipal
Debt Service
$ 14,084,745.89
Sanitation
$ 8,023,000.00
Deferred Charges
$ 200,000.00
Health
& Welfare
$ 1,690,748.00
RUT
$ 4,195,000.00
Recreation/Senior
$ 1,361,200.00
Construction
Code
$ 1,456,800.00
Municpal Land Use Law
$ 190,300.00
TOTAL
$ 136,745,769.67
Utilities
$ 3,385,000.00
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2025 Budget Breakdown
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18%
12%
4%
13%
7%
2%
3%
11%
7%
24% Police Dept
Fire and EMU
DPW
Insurance
Solid Waste
Library
Utilities
Pension
Debt Svc
Govt Svcs
MUNICIPAL
OPERATIONS:
$ 113,447,134.00
OTHER
OPERATIONS:
$ 23,298,635.67
•Salaries & Wages
•Operating Expenses
•Utilities
•Insurance
•Statutory Expenditures
(pension/social security)
•Library
•Grants & Inter-local Agreements
•Capital Improvements
•Municipal Debt Service
•Deferred Charges
•RUT
What are Government Services?
–24% of Budget
•Road Maintenance and Repair
•Garbage, Refuse, Recycling & Yard Waste
•Sidewalk Maintenance and Repair
•Recreational Fields & Facilities
•Park Maintenance
•Policing Services & Crossing Guards
•Fire Department & Fire Safety
•Administration / Elections/ Records
•Construction/ Planning/ Zoning
•Senior Citizen Services
•Health Department
•Fire Hydrants & Street Lights
•Snow Plowing Services
•Emergency Services
•Storm Water Systems
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Total Budget Comparison
Year Total Budget
$ Value Increase
% Increase
2019
$99,140,430.31
$1,604,971.36
1.65%
2020
$107,571,211.67
$8,352,558.44
8.42%
2021
$110,492,988.75
$2,921,777.08
2.72%
2022
$119,866,858.84
$8,610,067.11
7.98%
2023
$120,594,669.55
$
727,810.71
0.60%
2024
$131,354,678.38
$
10,179,228.34
8.40%
2025
(intro’d)
$136,745,769.67
$
4,865,798.38
3.69%
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Municipal Tax Rate
Comparison
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$0.00
$50.00
$100.00
$150.00
$200.00
$250.00
2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025
Approximate Tax Increase per
Household
Approximate Tax Rate Increase per House
2025 Estimated Property
Tax Rate
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Municipal
Library
School
(Introduced) County
(est.)
36.06%
1.46%
46.32% 16.16%
Property Tax Bill
Comparison
Union County Taxes
$2,108.00 $1,960.00 $48.00
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Example Based on Average Residential Assessed Valuation –$ 46,516.00
which equates to approximately $475,600 of market value
Estimated 2025 2024 Change
Municipal Taxes
$3,929.64 $3,730.32 $199.32
Public Library Taxes
$159.20 $150.44 $8.76
Board of Education
(Introduced)
$5,047.82 $4,891.02 $156.80
2025 CAPITAL BUDGET
•DPW - Dump Trucks with Plows & Spreaders
•Finalization of Library and Site Improvements
•ALPR Advanced Warning and Fiber Connectivity Project
•2025 Road Program
•Vision Zero Implementation
•Knights of Columbus –Water/Splash Park
•Various Park Upgrades and Improvements
•Parking Lots and Pay Stations
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SEWER UTILITY BUDGET
Dedicated Revenues
Amount
Appropriations
Amounts
Surplus
$400,000
Operating Expenses
$355,000
Sewer Charges
$10,102,000
Salaries
$1,145,000
Joint Meeting Refund
$29,000
Joint Meeting
$5,549,015
Miscellaneous
$229,000
Insurance
$100,000
Additional Sewer
Charges $
-
Capital Outlay
$57,185
Debt Service
$203,800
Statutory Expenses
$350,000
To General Operating
$3,000,000
Total
$10,760,000
$10,760,000
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Long Range Planning
• Goal to maintain high tax collection rate in order to help regenerate
surplus.
• Finalize long term debt management plan (finance notes and sunset
debt) in order to reduce debt service payments.
• Work to pay cash for capital items with a useful life less than 10
years.
• Continue to implement Fund Balance Policy utilized to stabilize the
tax impact and fortify rating.
• Finalize 10-year Long Term Financial Plan and PILOT Policy
• Complete and Publish detailed 5-Year Capital Improvement Plan
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