Gloucester residents will not see a tax increase next year. It was the consensus of the Gloucester County Board of Supervisors to keep the county’s real estate tax rate at its current rate of 65 cents per $100 of assessed value during its work session Thursday night in the colonial courthouse. Supervisors previously decided during an April 3 work session to keep the rate at which boats are assessed the same. Not raising the real estate tax rate by the original four cents as proposed or increasing the boat tax will force supervisors to implement $2.3 million in tough cuts when it formally adopts the budget Tuesday night. One of these cuts comes in the local transfer to Gloucester County Public Schools, which is reduced by $884,000, leaving the school system with a local transfer increase of only $261,840 over its current level. The school board had requested a local transfer increase of $1.8 million in its original budget proposal. The school system needs $451,000 in local fun...
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