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Long Branch council adopts ordinance allowing temporary increase to budget cap
Summary
On June 10, 2026 the Long Branch City Council adopted Ordinance 013-26, permitting a temporary increase to the municipal budget appropriation cap under statutes cited in the ordinance; the measure passed unanimously after a public hearing with no speakers.
The Long Branch City Council voted unanimously June 10 to adopt Ordinance 013-26, a second-reading ordinance authorizing the municipality to use a "cap bank" and to exceed the normal budget-appropriation increase limit for the 2026 budget cycle.
The clerk read the ordinance and associated statutory language describing the cap bank mechanism under the cited New Jersey statute. The ordinance, introduced at the council's May 27 meeting, authorizes an increase above the typical 2.5% appropriation growth limit to 3.5% in specified circumstances and allows the municipality to appropriate the difference in one of the next two succeeding years, consistent with the statutory language recited during the reading.
The council opened a public hearing on the ordinance and invited comments for the record; no members of the public spoke on this item, and the council moved to close the hearing and adopt the ordinance on its second and final reading. A roll-call vote recorded all members present voting in favor.
The ordinance will enable the city to exceed the usual appropriation growth limit for the purposes described in the reading; the clerk noted the ordinance had been advertised and posted according to law. No amendments or conditions were recorded in the meeting minutes.
