Members of the Township Council are expected to have the proposed 2010 municipal budget in their hands on Friday, March 19 — as promised by Mayor Shing-Fu Hsueh and his administration.
Though the council is working on scheduling an official budget session, the budget is expected to come up for discussion at the meeting on Monday, March 22.
Hsueh emphasized during the March 15 Township Council meeting that the township was specifically told in a memorandum from the state that it would not receive direction from the state until Governor Chris Christie gave his budget speech on March 16.
Still, the administration has been working on the budget. Hsueh said the administration would have taken the information provided by the governor in his speech and calculated into the budget over the next three days to have it to council by Friday, March 19.
Business Administrator Robert Hary told council the budget so far was “the most austere and tightest budget” he has seen in 20 years.
In the meantime, the council is working on scheduling an all-day budget session for some time after April 6, during which the heads of all the township departments would be available to answer council’s questions, although Hary said that because the budget has been reduced in most areas, he is anticipating the department heads will have little to say. He anticipates most of the questions will be for him.
