Crime & Safety

Fire District Elections Saturday

Fire districts holding line or reducing taxes for 2012 budgets

The township’s three fire districts in Saturday’s scheduled elections will ask voters to approve annual budgets that lower or keep even the tax burden in the areas they cover.

Polling for the annual fire district elections will run from 2 p.m. to 9 p.m. The township’s three firehouses will serve as polling places for each district.

In District 1, the township’s smallest district covering the West Belmar area, voters are will be asked to approve a $362,095 tax levy in support of its 2012 budget totaling $394,095. The levy is down $21,594 from the district’s $383,689 tax burden last year, or 5.6 percent.

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Two seats on the district’s Board of Commissioners are uncontested in Saturday’s polling. Incumbents Norman R. Stelling and William Davenport are unchallenged for three-year terms on the board.

Fire District 1 covers election Districts 3 and 7 and part of district 5. Polling will be held at the 18th Avenue firehouse, 1511 18th Ave.

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District 2, which covers the Glendola section of town, will ask voters to approve a $980,619 tax levy in support of its $983,619 budget for 2012.

This year's levy is down $125,284, or just more than 11 percent, from the 2011 levy of $1,015,903. This year's tax rate of 6.4 cents for each $100 of property value also is down, slightly, from the 2011 rate of 6.5 cents.

Voters will also be asked to choose two people for the Board of Commissioners in the only contested election of the three districts.

Michael Textor, Harlon Bauter, Jeffrey P. Jannerone and Michael Dorrer are running to fill three-year terms on the panel.

In District 3, voters will be asked to approve a $1,000,921 tax levy in support of the district’s $1,420,185 spending plan for 2012. The district has increased its tax levy by $22,505, or 2.3 percent over the 2011 levy of $978,416. The tax rate of less than 6 cents for each $100 of assessed property value is unchanged from last year.

The sole seat up for election on the district’s Board of Commissioners is also uncontested. Ralph G. Tancredi Sr., an incumbent, is unchallenged for the three-year term.

Voting will take place at the , station 2, at Church Street and Route 35.

Fire District 3 covers election districts 2, 4, 8, 9, 10, 11, 16, 17, and 18.


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