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Public commenters press Morris County commissioners on farmland assessment fairness and offer county health-screening partnership
Summary
During the Feb. 26 public-comment period, a Mendham resident urged the county to support state changes to New Jersey's farmland assessment program; a representative of Medical Essential Diagnostics offered countywide cardiac screening services; another resident raised concerns about federal Medicaid cuts affecting local residents.
During the public-comment portion of the Feb. 26 meeting of the Board of County Commissioners of Morris County, several residents raised policy concerns and offered services to county programs.
Jack Curtis of Mendham Township, a retired school principal and former municipal alderman, urged the commissioners to support changes to New Jersey's farmland assessment law, saying the policy has morphed from an aid for struggling farmers into what he described as "a tax shelter for the very wealthy." Curtis told the board that in Mendham Township the number of farmland-assessed properties increased from 20 in 1964 to 158 today and said the countywide total is 1,503 farmland-assessed properties. He said statewide there are about 37,000 farmland-assessed parcels…
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