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Morris County commissioners outline resolutions to set 2025 park-improvement and open-space tax rates
Summary
Commissioners discussed two resolutions scheduled for the meeting that would set the 2025 park improvement trust fund tax rate at one-quarter cent and the open-space/preservation rate at three-eighths of a cent; officials said rates have not changed since 2021 and that increasing the historic-preservation share would require a public referendum.
Morris County Board of County Commissioners discussed two resolutions on the agenda that would set the county's 2025 park improvement trust fund and open-space/preservation trust tax rates.
According to remarks during the meeting, Resolution 2025-161 would set the park-improvement trust fund tax rate at one-quarter of a cent and Resolution 2025-143 would set the open-space/preservation trust tax rate at three-eighths of a cent. Commissioners said those rates have been at the current level since 2021.
The matter matters because the trust-fund taxes fund county open-space acquisition, historic preservation and park-improvement programs. Commissioners described the three-eighths cent…
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