Crime doesn’t pay in West New York, but being a police officer sure does. The working-class north Hudson town of roughly 52,000 spends nearly 20% of his annual budget, or $19.6 million, on its police department, and it doesn’t even have a police chief, according to...
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New Jersey State Policy Lab: Adjustments to Municipal and County Population Counts in New Jersey for 2020
According to the latest Census count, NJ’s population peaked above 9 million for the first time in 2020. Census estimates were off by a whopping 4.3 percent.
Report said Palisades Park CFO ‘rarely’ in office. Payroll shows he works for 5 other towns
When you think of the highest-paid public workers in the state, you probably don’t think of the chief financial officer for Rochelle Park, population 5,597. But Roy Riggitano, the township’s CFO, brings home at least $347,970 a year. That’s not just because Riggitano...
Bloustein Local helps NJ local governments manage cyber risks
Any organization with an online presence, or any individual who is online, is constantly threatened by cyber-attacks perpetrated by criminals trying to steal information that can be sold. New Jersey municipal governments are no exception, and the Bloustein Local...
City tax levy down 70 percent from 2012
Marc Pfeiffer, assistant director of the Bloustein Local Government Research Center at Rutgers University, said the state should receive plenty of credit for getting Atlantic City’s finances under control. In February, state overseers reached a $72 million tax...
What is the cost of damage to city vehicles in accidents?
The accident reports for the five cities and municipalities reviewed by MyCentralJersey.com spanned six years, from 2011 to 2016, and included accidents in which public employees were at fault and also accidents in which they were not. The majority of the accidents...
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