"Doctor" Furey Returns From South America After Missing Two Important Meetings: Problems Still Here

Five Financial Crises All Had The Same Consequences: A Huge Rate Increase Or A Huge Township Tax Increase; This Time You Could Get Both With Larsen Plan, As More Overcrowding, Traffic Congestion, $40 Million Tax Increase Loom

Schemes Similar To Larsen’s Plan To Bail Out Township Budget Deficits With Reserves Needed To Keep DMUA Rate Stable Were Tried Five Times Before In Dover Township: Produced Financial Disasters All Five Times

Dover Township: Dover Township taxpayers currently face a potentially disastrous overdevelopment emergency which could easily raise taxes $1200 per home within five years. But instead of confronting the problem, Committeeman John Furey went to South America on vacation. He missed the two most important meetings of the year at a time when the Democrats are preparing to take control of what is left of the local government.

Nobody There On Resolving Overdevelopment,
Traffic Gridlock, Runaway Budget Problems

Bad decisions on Mt. Laurel affordable housing issues, aggravated by overdevelopment permitted by an obsolete master plan and officials who don’t care, have produced painful consequences:

•  Brutal overcrowding, including overloaded schools;

•  A monumental traffic congestion crisis that gets worse every year;

• Excessive spending in a runaway township budget with a $5 million unfunded deficit;

•  A huge tax increase ($40 million a year: $1200 for typical homes) which could make home ownership virtually unaffordable for average people and which has already started in the township and the school system this year.

Five Financial Disasters Featured Gutless
Officials Buying Votes With Taxpayers’ Own Money

As the current disasters go forward, there would be another calamity to add to the five major local financial disasters of the past 22 years which, in chronological order, were:

GOP Boss R. C. Clement GOP Used Deferred School Taxes To Fund Runaway Township Budget

Spending Binge In Late 1970's Produced
Record Township Tax Increase in 1980

• The spending binge of the late 1970's which produced the largest local tax increase in Dover Township’s history in 1980: Caused by Democrat administration.

Deficit Spending By Previous DMUA Administration
Produced Record Sewer Rate Hike

• The deficit spending binge of the late 1970's and early 80's produced the largest sewer rate increase in the township’s history in 1983. Caused by Democrat administration.

OCUA Deficit Spending Produced Highest County Sewer Rate In NJ

• The world class deficit spending binge at the Ocean County Utilities Authority in the late 70's and early 80's forced a second record sewer rate increase in 1984. Caused by Republican OCUA administration.

Spending And Hiring Binge Produced Massive
Increase In School Taxes

• An unprecedented spending and hiring binge in the Toms River School System in the 1980's which led to a massive increase in school taxes and, finally, a change in the school administration. Caused by Republican officials, one of whom, Leonard Hedinger, has recently created similar trouble at the DMUA.

Using Deferred School Taxes For Township Budget
Caused One Of The Worst Crises In NJ History

• The excessive use of deferred school tax funds to pay for binge spending in Dover Township budgets in the mid and late 1980's and early 1990's led to one of the worst financial crises in the history of New Jersey local government. The problem was “solved” in 1992, with the enactment of a $17 million “emergency”  bond issue from which the public received no value, and the largest local tax increase ever to take place in Ocean County.  Caused by the Republican administration.

Typical Dover Taxpayer Still Pays $600 Penalty
Every Year For Which He Gets No Value

The typical Dover Township taxpayer still pays more than $600 each and every year as a permanent penalty for these five situations. The taxpayer gets absolutely no value for this $600 component of his tax bill.

Members of both political parties are working hard to make sure the next disaster is worse than any of the other five. The new Democratic majority has a plan that would produce record sewer rate increases as well as huge township spending and tax increases.

New Lame Duck Democrats Want To Spend
Even More On Patronage And Payoffs

Democrat Boss “Doctor” Jack Moriarty wants to spend even more on political patronage and political payoffs than Boss R. C. Clement and the Republicans did.

Moriarty is the “publicist” who got more than $50,000 in eight months in “consulting fees” from four different political funds fronting for the Larsen campaign last year.

More on all of this soon on OceanCountyPolitics•Com.

For a previous story on "Doctor" Furey's decision to go to South America instead of meeting his elected responsibilities, Click Here.

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