The Asbury Park City Council will vote Wednesday on the 2017 municipal budget, which would raise raise the average assessed homeowner’s taxes by $91, down 40 percent from last year. The $44.5 million budget is $2.26 million over last year’s $42.27 million spending plan, a 5.34 percent increase. And while the proposed budget called for […]

Asbury Park’s city council is scheduled to meet in council chambers tonight, with a closed executive session starting at 5 p.m.; a workshop session at 6 p.m.; and a regular meeting at 7 p.m. The workshop and executive agendas were not available online at the time of this posting. Items on the regular meeting agenda […]

A resolution enabling an emergency appropriation to close a $1 million gap in the 2012 municipal budget was approved unanimously at last night’s council meeting. This resolution will allow the city to seek a $1 million bond to pay off a shortfall in the budget’s line item for employee health insurance. Council voted on the […]

City officials have discovered a shortfall of $1 million in the 2012 municipal budget under the line item for employee health care, they announced at last night’s council meeting. City manager Terence Reidy, auditor Dave Kaplan and acting chief financial officer [CFO] Christine Paulin informed the city council and the public of the discrepancy. In […]