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Highland Park council weighs delaying 2025 tax sale, budgeting $400,000 reserve hit
Summary
Council members and staff discussed a proposal to delay the borough's 2025 tax sale to reduce taxpayer hardship, a plan that requires budgeting an estimated $400,000 shortfall and draws on surplus funds. No formal action was taken at the meeting.
Highland Park Borough Council members on March 25 discussed changes to the proposed 2025 municipal budget, including a staff recommendation to delay the borough's fourth-quarter tax sale, a move administrators said would give residents more time to pay but require the borough to budget an estimated $400,000 shortfall.
The proposal, presented by borough staff with Chief Financial Officer Noireya Champion participating, would shift some tax-collection activity into the following year. "We're proposing a potential deacceleration of our tax sale," Champion said, describing the change as a way to ease immediate pressure on residents and on tax-office operations while the borough budgets for uncollected taxes.
Why it matters: delaying the sale would reduce the immediate risk that residents who miss a single quarterly payment are swept into a tax-lien…
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