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This is exactly what we should be doing and it is exactly what we are not doing.

Council cutting millions

Manasquan trims Sandy spending

 

MANASQUAN — Borough Council members want to save millions of dollars in taxpayer money, and they are looking to reduce superstorm Sandy spending to do it.

The council already has canceled $4.5 million from a $7.4 million Sandy beach recovery bond that it approved for an emergency protection and recovery plan created a month and a half after the storm hit Oct. 29. It’s the first of three recovery bonds that officials will look to trim to save taxpayer dollars…………….

……..“I think, when a disaster hits, people give you a little bit of a leeway. But that’s when you have your greatest responsibility. At some point someone is going to have to pay the bill,”  (Councilman Michael) Mangan said. “I made a promise that we’d cancel any of the money we didn’t need as soon as it was possible.”

If Tom Burke and I are elected, we, along with Councilman Jim Bean, will do everything possible to undo any of the debt placed on the shoulders of Belmar’s taxpayers that hasn’t been spent already.  (I do fear, however, that it’s already pretty much all been spent.)  And bear in mind that Manasquan borrowed significantly less than we did in the first place.

Elect one Republican in November and we can stop the unnecessary borrowing.  (Bonding  requires a 2/3 or better vote.)  Elect both Republicans and we can attack the careless and wasteful spending that creates the need to borrow (and tax) so much.