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Keansburg council approves temporary 2025 budget appropriations and several finance resolutions
Summary
The Borough of Keansburg council adopted Resolution #25-001 establishing temporary CY2025 appropriations using 26.25% of 2024 appropriations and approved resolutions to cancel certain tax amounts, authorize a tax charge for 26 Manning Place, and pay vouchers; all votes were recorded by roll call and were affirmative. No public comments were made.
On Jan. 8, 2025 the Borough of Keansburg Municipal Council approved a package of finance resolutions, including Resolution #25-001 to establish temporary municipal and water/sewer appropriations for CY2025 and several routine actions related to property taxes and bill payments.
Resolution #25-001, adopted under N.J.S. 40A:4-19 and effective Jan. 1, 2025, authorizes temporary appropriations based on 26.25% of the CY2024 appropriations. The minutes list the 26.25% base figures as $4,940,707.75 for the municipal budget and $1,175,130.45 for the water/sewer utility and provide detailed line items for departmental salaries and operating expenses (examples include Police Bureau salaries and specified amounts for inspections, sanitation contracts, and pension contributions). The council recorded its adoption by roll call.
Resolution #25-002 authorized cancellation of specified tax amounts and tax credits for multiple parcels for reasons that the minutes list as demolition of structures, fully-disabled veteran exemptions, new lot designations and one fire-related adjustment (Fire 09/25/2024). The minutes list the affected block and lot numbers and individual amounts; the resolution directs that a certified copy be forwarded to the Chief Financial Officer and Tax Collector.
Resolution #25-003 authorized the Tax Collector to create a land-tax charge on Block 156, Lot 2.03 (26 Manning Place). The minutes state that the parcel was formerly owned by Keansburg Fire Company #1, sold to Leap Builders, Inc., and later occupied by the current private owners; Leap Builders previously paid the taxes that should have been assessed on the land. The council approved the authorization by roll call.
Resolution #25-004 authorized the payment of numbered vouchers (01.08.25) and directed checks be drawn by the CFO and signed by the Mayor and attested by the Municipal Clerk. The council adopted this routine payment resolution by roll call.
Clerk Jo-Ann O’Brien read the resolutions into the record; all recorded roll-call votes on the listed resolutions show affirmative responses from Mr. Donaldson, Mr. Tonne, Councilman Cocuzza, Mr. Foley and Mayor Hoff. The meeting’s public-comment period produced no speakers.
The minutes provide detailed line-item appropriations for budget tracking but do not state an aggregated net increase or final adopted annual municipal budget for CY2025; any full-year budget adoption or further amendments will appear in subsequent proceedings.
