Tag: Colts Neck municipal government

  • Colts Neck officials ban cultivation, sale of cannabis in community

    Colts Neck officials ban cultivation, sale of cannabis in community

    COLTS NECK – The members of the Colts Neck Township Committee have adopted an ordinance that prohibits the operation of any class of a cannabis licensed business in the municipality. The ordinance includes language that will update eight sections of the municipal code. The legislation states that “the growing, cultivating, farming, manufacturing, distribution or selling…

  • Colts Neck officials adopt $13.6 million municipal budget for 2021

    Colts Neck officials adopt $13.6 million municipal budget for 2021

    COLTS NECK – The members of the Township Committee have adopted a 2021 municipal budget that totals $13.67 million and will be supported by the collection of $8.28 million in taxes from Colts Neck’s residential and commercial property owners. Officials will appropriate $2.4 million from Colts Neck’s surplus fund (savings) to be used as revenue…

  • Colts Neck Township Committee introduces $14 million budget

    Colts Neck Township Committee introduces $14 million budget

    COLTS NECK – The members of the Township Committee have introduced a 2021 municipal budget totaling $14 million that will be supported by the collection of $8.28 million in taxes from Colts Neck’s residential and commercial property owners. Other revenue in the budget includes the appropriation of $2.4 million from the township’s surplus fund (savings)…

  • Buss excited to begin service on Colts Neck Township Committee

    Buss excited to begin service on Colts Neck Township Committee

    COLTS NECK – Tara Torchia Buss is looking forward to starting her first three-year term on the Township Committee in January. Buss and incumbent Michael Viola ran unopposed for two seats on Colts Neck’s governing body in the Nov. 3 municipal election. Viola won his second term on the committee, which will continue to have…

  • Colts Neck officials adopt $12.4M municipal budget for 2020

    Colts Neck officials adopt $12.4M municipal budget for 2020

    COLTS NECK – Members of the Colts Neck Township Committee have adopted a 2020 municipal budget that totals $12.46 million and will be supported by the collection of $7.8 million in taxes from the community’s residential and commercial property owners. To support the budget, officials will appropriate $1.6 million from Colts Neck’s surplus fund (savings)…

  • June 10 public hearing scheduled on Colts Neck municipal budget

    June 10 public hearing scheduled on Colts Neck municipal budget

    COLTS NECK – Members of the Township Committee have introduced a 2020 municipal budget totaling $12.47 million that will be supported by the collection of $7.8 million in taxes from Colts Neck’s residential and commercial property owners. To support the budget, officials will appropriate $1.6 million from the township’s surplus fund (savings) as revenue and…

  • Colts Neck officials face day of reckoning on affordable housing settlement

    Colts Neck officials face day of reckoning on affordable housing settlement

    COLTS NECK – Municipal officials may decide on March 18 to agree with the Fair Share Housing Center and settle issues related to Colts Neck’s obligation to provide opportunities for the development of affordable housing in the community. Affordable housing is defined as housing that is sold or rented at below market prices to individuals…

  • Colts Neck officials adopt bond ordinance for new municipal building

    Colts Neck officials adopt bond ordinance for new municipal building

    COLTS NECK – A project to construct a new municipal building can advance after the Colts Neck Township Committee adopted a bond ordinance to fund the work. Municipal officials took the action during a meeting on Feb. 26. According to the ordinance, officials will make a $523,810 down payment and issue $10.48 million in bonds…

  • Colts Neck’s governing body plans to issue bonds for new municipal building

    Colts Neck’s governing body plans to issue bonds for new municipal building

    COLTS NECK – Officials in Colts Neck are preparing to appropriate $11 million for the construction of a new municipal building. A bond ordinance that would fund the construction of the building was introduced by the Township Committee on Feb. 12. According to the ordinance, officials will make a $523,810 down payment and issue $10.48…