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Atlantic County executive unveils $283 million 2026 budget, touts 2¢ tax-rate cut and $22.5M surplus allocation
Summary
County Executive Dennis Levinson presented a $283 million 2026 spending plan that applies $22.5 million of surplus and would lower the general purpose tax rate by 2¢; his address prioritized staffing, public safety infrastructure and economic diversification projects including the National Aerospace Research and Technology Park.
County Executive Dennis Levinson presented Atlantic County’s 2026 spending plan on March 3, saying the $283,000,000 budget would use $22,500,000 of surplus and produce a $198,000,000 county tax levy with a 2¢ cut to the general purpose tax rate.
Levinson said the county would apply roughly half of a reported $40,000,000 surplus this year and keep public‑health and library levies flat. He described pay and benefit increases driven by contractual obligations across the county’s 23 bargaining units and said Meadowview and the county Justice Facility each required about $1,000,000 in additional spending to meet contractual operations and…
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