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2013 Budget Tops Thursday Committee Agenda

The agenda for the meeting also calls for the establishment of a cap bank and includes second readings of the ordinance amending the fee structure for RiverWinds members.

The published agenda for Thursday's township committee meeting includes the introduction of the 2013 municipal budget.

At the April work session, Committeeman Sam Cianfarini said taxpayers were trying to avoid an almost 17-cent increase per $100 “before we start cutting.”

That would have worked out to about a $350 tax increase for the average household. 

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West Deptford residents can already expect to pay $123 more in school taxes this year.

The average assessed value of a home last year was about $208,000; this year’s assessment will come in below that, administrator Eric Campo told Patch at that meeting.

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Township leaders will also introduce an ordinance to establish a budget cap bank, which would allow West Deptford to "bank" any unlevied portion of a 2013 tax increase—the difference between its final appropriated amount and a 3.5 percent increase.

The township could then levy that amount in either 2014 or 2015.


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