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Highland Park council introduces 2025 municipal budget; public hearing set for May 6
Summary
The Highland Park Borough Council introduced its 2025 municipal budget and related utility and Main Street budgets, presenting a tax snapshot that shows a roughly $2.2 million increase in the amount to be raised across municipal, school, county and library levies and setting a May 6 public hearing.
The Highland Park Borough Council on April 1 introduced the borough’s 2025 municipal budget, scheduling a public hearing on the budget and tax resolution for May 6, 2025.
The finance presentation shown to council members and the public laid out a municipal tax picture in which the total amount to be raised by property taxes across all uses — municipal, schools, county and library — rises by about $2,200,000 compared with 2024. Using the administration’s estimate of average assessed value in Highland Park, the presentation showed an average total property tax bill of $12,882.64 for 2025, about $542 more than last year (a 4.4% increase). The municipal share of that bill was…
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