Herald & Lantern 25 January '84

County Budget Up 8.3%; Tax Rate Cut Half-Cent

CAPE. MAY COURT' HOUSE — Cape May County’s proposed 1984 budget will climb by 8.3 percent to $35.7 million; but the county equalized tax rate will drop a half-cent per $100 of assessed value. That seeming-mirade is the result primarily of increased tax ratables which climbed by 6.3 percent, from $5.7 billion to $6 billion. The ;tax rate will go to , 40.7 cents per $100 of

value, from 41.2 cents last year. In an annual budget message prepared for delivery yesterday, too late for the Herald-Lantern deadline, Freeholder William E. Sturm Jr. said that, for a home assessed at $50,000 the county tax would total $203.50 in 1984 compared to $206 last year. The 1984 budget includes $1.9 million in capital improvements, the largest category being $800,000 for

the first year’s payments on hood issue slated to be adopted to pay for expansion and reconstrudtion of a new county nursing-home and county court facilities, Sturm said. The home is expected to cost $8 million, the expansion of existing court facilities $5 million, and the bond issue to total $14

Cape Lawmakers Start New Terms

TRENTON - Veteran legislators Sen. James R. Hurley, and Assemblymen Joseph Chinnici and Guy Muziani,<R-Cape May/Cumberland) have been sworn in to serve new terms in the 201st session of the New Jersey Legislature. Hurley,- who was first elected to a two-year term in the Senate in 1981, has been elected Assistant Senate Minority Leader. A veteran of 14 years in the Assembly, Hurley has served as Senate Minority Whip for the past two years. In addition to his leadership position. Senator Hurley will continue to serve on the Senate Transportation Committee. HE HAS HELD GOP leadership positions since

1972, serving as Assistant Majority Leader in 1972, Assistant Minority Leader from 1973 to 1976, and Minority Leader, from 1977 to 1981 while serving in the Assembly. In the Assembly, Chinnici has been sworn in for his seventh, consecutive term. A 12-year veteran of the Assembly, he is the senior member of the Joint Appropriations Committee. He wall again serve as a member of that committee during the 201st session of the Assembly. Muziani, the former mayor of Wildwood, .was sworn in to his second term in the Assembly this year. He will again serve as a member of the Assembly’s Committee on Municipal Government.

Sturm pointed out that tax rates will vary in each of the county’s 16 munci pali ties depending upon the ratio of assessed value to true value as determined by the county board of taxation. The proposed budget totals $35.7 million compared to $32.9 million last year. The amount of money to be raised by local property taxes is $24.6 million, compared to $23.5 million last year, a 5 percent increase. The $361 million increase in ratables reflects new construction increases in the value of real property, and 1983 reevaluations, Sturm said. Excluding the general government category, whose $1.3 million budget increase over 1983 reflects the merger of airport maintenance and buildings and grounds personnel,' the biggest dollar increase will be $425,709 to education, Sturm said. In percentages, recrea " tioo leads the gains with a 40 percent hike ova- 1963, going from $465,252 to $650,366.

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