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Gloucester adopts budget; boat tax repealed

After a month and a half of deliberations and hearing from the public and county department heads in a variety of settings, the Gloucester County Board of Supervisors voted 6-1 last Thursday night to adopt the county’s $114 million budget.

In doing so, the board did not fund the $1.3 million in additional local transfer requested by the Gloucester County School Board to open Page Middle School, but did repeal the boat tax, which caused a revenue loss of $438,000 in the budget.

The budget was adopted on an equalized real estate tax rate of 68 cents per $100 of assessed value. Though that is a three-cent increase from the current tax rate, many property owners in the county saw their property values decrease after the latest reassessment, which became effective in January. All other tax rates remained the same, with the exception of a 1 percent increase in the lodging tax, which would bring in $32,500 of additional revenue to the county.

Gloucester Point district supervisor Chri...

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