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West Windsor council adopts 2025 municipal budget with no municipal tax-rate increase
Summary
Council approved a $53 million municipal budget and a COLA ordinance allowing a 3.5% appropriation cap and a $854,000 cap bank; budget adds seven staff positions and funds increased debt service and once-weekly summer trash pickup.
The West Windsor Township Council adopted the 2025 municipal budget on May 19, approving a $53,000,004 total budget and keeping the municipal tax rate unchanged.
The council also adopted an ordinance to exceed the municipal budget appropriation limit (the COLA ordinance), allowing the township to increase appropriations up to 3.5 percent and to bank unused appropriation authority. Chief Financial Officer John said the ordinance will provide a cap bank of $854,000 to be used in the following two years. “Adoption of this ordinance permits an additional $382,006.47 increase in the final appropriations and will provide us with $854,000.82 and 67¢ as a cap bank,” John said during his presentation.
The nut graf: Council members and administration said the…
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