North Bergen has introduced its 2022 calendar year budget.
The North Bergen Board of Commissioners voted unanimously to do so at its April 6 meeting. The approximately $106,036,919.07 budget is roughly $6 million more than the budget adopted for 2021. It will likely be up for a public hearing and vote at its May 11 meeting.
Anticipated revenue
This year, the Surplus in the budget is up to $5,440,000 from $4,400,000 from in 2021. This is a difference of $1,040,000 or a 23.64 percent increase.
Local Revenue has slightly increased to $9,731,545.82 from $9,597,166.10 in 2021. This is a difference of $134,379.72 or a 1.4 percent increase.
State Aid is the same, at $7,185,597. And Uniform Construction Code Fees are down to $2,000,000 from $2,257,040 in 2021. This is a difference of $257,040 or an 11.39 percent decrease.
Public and Private Revenue is down to $880,634.07, from $1,390,695.34 in 2021. This is a difference of $510,061 or a 36.68 percent decrease.
Special Items of Revenue increased to $7,999,142.18 from $3,593,848.01 in 2021. This is a difference of $4,405,294.17 or a 122.58 percent increase.
Receipts from Delinquent Taxes decreased to $1,600,000 from $1,897,485.75 in 2021. This is a difference of $297,485.75 or a 15.68 decrease.
The Local Tax for Municipal Purposes is $68,659,987.45 up from $68,437,694.52 in 2021. This is a difference of $222,292.93 or a .32 percent increase.
The Minimum Library Tax has increased to $2,540,012.55 from $2,309,748.94 in 2021. This is a difference of $230,263.61 or a 9.97 percent increase.
This culminates in an increase in anticipated revenues to $106,036,919.07 from $101,068,275.66 in realized revenue in 2021. This is a difference of $4,967,643.41 or a 4.92 percent.
Anticipated appropriations
$7,817,435 is appropriated for General Government, with $6,999,570 coming from the General Budget and $817,865 coming from public and private offsets. This is up from $6,945,691.15 in 2021, a difference of $871,743.85 or a 12.55 percent.
$281,410 is appropriated for Land-Use Administration, up from $267,030 in 2021. That’s a difference of $14,380 or a 5.39 percent increase.
$891,410 is appropriated for Uniform Construction Code, up from $828,395 in 2021. That marks a difference of $63,015 or a 7.61 percent increase.
$19,608,500 is appropriated for Insurance, up from $17,445,711.88 in 2021. This is a difference of $2,162,788.12 or a 12.40 percent increase.
$19,594,101 is appropriated for Public Safety, up from $19,055,830.57 in 2021. An additional $84,361.07 in public and private offsets brings it to $19,678,462.07. That’s a difference of $622,631.50 or a 3.27 percent increase.
$6,040,955 is appropriated for Public Works, down from $6,105,159.16 in 2021. That marks a difference of $64,204.16 or a 1.05 percent decrease.
$782,555 is appropriated for Health and Human Services, down from $1,468,828 in 2021. This is a difference of $686,273 or a 46.72 percent decrease.
$4,134,205 is appropriated for Parks and Recreation, up from $4,028,195.15 in 2021. That’s a difference of $106,009.85 or a 2.63 percent increase.
$2,540,013 is appropriated for Education, including Library, up from $2,335,800 in 2021. That marks a difference of $204,213 or a 8.74 percent increase.
Appropriations continued
$2,600,000 is appropriated for Utilities and Bulk Purchases, up from $2,575,000 in 2021. This is a difference of $25,000 or a a .97 percent increase.
$7,637,000 is appropriated for Landfill and Solid Waste Disposal, up from $7,299,076 in 2021. That’s a difference of $337,924 or a 4.63 percent increase.
$25,000 is appropriated for Contingency. That remains stagnant from 2021.
$7,479,046 is appropriated for Statutory Expenditures, up from $6,980,506.02 in 2021. That marks a difference of $498,539.98 or a 7.14 percent.
$15,635,000 is appropriated for Shared Services, up from $15,402,498 in 2021. This is a difference of $232,502 or a 1.51 percent increase.
$993,015 is appropriated for Court and Public Defender, up from $944,662.43 in 2021. That’s a difference of $48,352.57 or a 5.12 percent increase.
$200,000 is appropriated for Capital, down from $500,000 in 2021. That marks a difference of $300,000 or a 60 percent decrease.
$7,256,500 is appropriated for Debt, up from $6,734,169.50 in 2021. This is a difference of $522,330.50 or a 7.76 percent increase.
$740,000 is appropriated for Deferred Charges, up from $180,000 in 2021. That’s a difference of $560,000 or a 311.11 percent increase.
$1,696,413 is appropriated for Reserve for Uncollected Taxes, which is down from $2,246,358.90 in 2021. That marks a difference of $549,945.90 or 24.48 percent.
Upcoming hearing soon
In total, anticipated appropriations equal $106,036,919.07, up from $101,367,911.76 in 2021. This is a difference of $4,669,007.31 or 4.61 percent increase.
At the April meeting when the budget was introduced, Chief Financial Officer Robert Pittfield said: “The local tax amount that has to be raised to support this budget is going up about $1.1 million or in effect 1.59 percent.”
The board will meet on May 11 at 11 a.m. in the municipal chambers in Town Hall at 4233 Kennedy Boulevard. For more information, go to northbergen.org.
Read the introduced budget online at https://www.northbergen.org/_Content/pdf/budgets/CY-2022-Introduced-Budget.pdf.
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