Thursday, November 8, 2012
The next meeting of Lawrence Township Council will take place today, Thursday, Nov. 8, beginning at 6:30 p.m. at the municipal building at 2207 Lawrence Rd. (Route 206).
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Thursday, November 8, 2012
The next meeting of Lawrence Township Council will take place today, Thursday, Nov. 8, beginning at 6:30 p.m. at the municipal building at 2207 Lawrence Rd. (Route 206). Council meetings are normally held on Tuesday evenings, but this meeting was pushed back to today because of the general election that was held earlier this week. The meeting agenda and Township Manager Richard Krawczun’s traditional pre-meeting memo are available from the township’s website and the Patch media box to the right. According to those documents, discussion of the 2013 municipal budget will continue at tonight’s meeting. Related to that discussion, Recreation Superintendent Steve Groeger will make a presentation about the recreation department’s budget. Twenty-…
Thursday, October 25, 2012
In order to maximize the savings that would result from downsizing the township's workforce, a decision about layoffs for 2013 needs to be made in time for their Nov. 8 meeting, Lawrence Township Council members were recently told by the township manager.
Time is running out for members of the Lawrence Township Council to decide if the township administration should proceed with certain cost-cutting proposals – including layoffs – in order to balance the 2013 municipal budget. During their meeting last week (Tuesday, Oct. 16) council members were advised by Township Manager Richard Krawczun that the question about layoffs was particularly pressing and a decision needs to be made in time for the next council meeting on Nov. 8 (a deviation from council’s normal meeting schedule because of the presidential election being held on Nov. 6). Discussion of that looming deadline came after Krawczun told council that the administration was “still working on various budget matters” for 2013. As part …
Tuesday, October 2, 2012
Lawrence Township Manager Richard Krawczun during the most recent township council meeting offered a “recap” of the potential cost-cutting and revenue-increasing proposals that have so far been discussed to solve the township's budget cap overage problem.
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Tuesday, October 2, 2012
With the township still needing to cut more than $700,000 from its 2013 municipal budget in order to comply with the state’s 2 percent tax levy cap and time running out to make a decision on how best to do that, Lawrence Township Manager Richard Krawczun during the last township council meeting, on Sept. 18, offered a “recap” of the potential cost-cutting and revenue-increasing proposals that have been discussed so far. Krawczun also spoke at length about a new proposal whereby the township could possibly generate as much as $400,000 per year by charging each residential property owner in town a “flat fee” of $55 for the pickup of bulk trash items like furniture and old appliances. “My conversation on the 2013 budget this evening is more …
Thursday, September 27, 2012
Lawrence Township’s tax base has dropped another $7.8 million as a result of 164 appeals filed with the Mercer County Board of Taxation earlier this year by property owners.
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Thursday, September 27, 2012
Lawrence Township’s tax base has dropped another $7.8 million as a result of 164 appeals filed with the Mercer County Board of Taxation earlier this year by property owners, Township Manager Richard Krawczun announced during the Lawrence Township Council meeting held last week (Sept. 18). As a result, the township will have to pay out a total of over $353,000 in cash refunds or tax credits to those property owners whose appeals to the county board were successful, Krawczun said, noting that under the law the township is responsible for paying back not just the municipal share but also the school district and county shares of the taxes due to be refunded. Refunds will come from the township's surplus fund, he said. The total tax assessment …
Wednesday, September 26, 2012
The Islamic Society of Mercer County's donation is the second gift the township has received since it sent out a letter in August to non-profit organizations seeking voluntary contributions in lieu of taxes.
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Wednesday, September 26, 2012
Lawrence Township’s appeal to non-profit organizations for voluntary contributions in lieu of taxes has netted a second donation, Township Manager Richard Krawczun announced last week. “We have received a second donation from our solicitation letter for voluntary contributions from tax-exempt organizations,” Krawczun told council members during the Sept. 18 Lawrence Township Council meeting. “The Islamic Circle of Mercer County has contributed a voluntary contribution of $1,250.” The Islamic Circle, which owns property in the 300 block of Lawrence Station Road, sent in the donation at the end of August, Krawczun said. Earlier in August, the township received a donation of $2,101.97 from SERV Behavioral Health System, which operates a group…
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Listen to the full council meeting that took place last Tuesday.
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Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Didn’t make it to last Tuesday’s (Sept. 18) Lawrence Township Council meeting? Wondering what you missed? Well, wonder no more. Here, Patch presents a full audio recording of the meeting, allowing you to listen in to everything that took place, from public comment to the township manager’s report and discussion about the 2013 municipal budget. In addition to the audio files, the media box to the right contains the meeting agenda and the township manager’s pre-meeting memo.
Friday, September 7, 2012
Lawrence Township plans to solicit competitive bids to determine if police dispatching and emergency medical services should be privatized, but any savings, under state law, can't be applied to cutting the $750,000 municipal tax levy cap overage for 2013.
Lawrence Township Council Tuesday evening (Sept. 4) directed Township Manager Richard Krawczun to solicit competitive bids from vendors in an effort to determine if the township could save money by laying off its civilian police dispatchers and emergency medical technicians and, in their place, privatize the township’s police dispatching and ambulance services. The directive comes as council tries to figure out how to solve the problem of the 2013 municipal budget being – using projected numbers – significantly in excess of the state’s 2 percent tax levy cap. That overage was initially estimated at being about $1 million, but the recent transfer of several Lawrence Township police officers to Hamilton Township means that council now needs …
Tuesday, September 4, 2012
Needing to cut about $1 million from the 2013 municipal budget in order to stay below the state's 2 percent tax cap, Lawrence Township officials will continue to talk about the township's financial woes at the next council meeting tonight, Sept. 4.
The discussion about Lawrence Township’s 2013 municipal budget problems will resume tonight, Tuesday, Sept. 4, when members of Lawrence Township Council convene for their next meeting, beginning at 6:30 p.m. at the municipal building. At the last meeting on Aug. 21 Township Manager Richard Krawczun spent close to an hour presenting an overview of 2012 municipal budget revenues, appropriations and expenditures and answering subsequent questions from council members. He spoke about the services that the township is legally obligated to provide and those service that are discretionary. (Full audio of Krawczun’s presentation can be heard in the Part 2 and Part 3 meeting files in the media box to the right. Also available is a PDF file …
Thursday, August 23, 2012
Earlier this month, Lawrence Township sent out a letter asking dozens of tax-exempt organizations and non-profit institutions to consider making a voluntary payment in lieu of taxes. SERV Behavioral Health System recently sent the township such a donation
Lawrence Township has so far received at least one donation in response to the letter it sent out earlier this month asking dozens of tax-exempt organizations and non-profit institutions in the township to consider making a “voluntary contribution” equal to 25 percent of what they would pay in property taxes were they not exempt. “I would like to report that we have had a positive response from SERV Behavioral Health System,” Township Manager Richard Krawzcun reported during Tuesday evening’s (Aug. 21) township council meeting. “SERV operates a group home on Darrah Lane,” he said. “They have submitted a check in the full amount requested of $2,101. Again, this is a single family home that they use as a group home on Darrah Lane. “Their …
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Lawrence Township Council will meet at 6:30 p.m. today, Tuesday, Aug. 21. Copies of the meeting agenda and Township Manager Richard Krawczun’s explanatory memo are available for review.
The next meeting of Lawrence Township Council will take place today, Tuesday, Aug. 21, beginning at 6:30 p.m. at the municipal building at 2207 Lawrence Rd. (Route 206). Copies of the meeting agenda and Township Manager Richard Krawczun’s explanatory memo can be downloaded from the township’s website or viewed from the Patch media box at the right. According to Krawczun’s memo, discussions about the 2013 municipal budget will continue at this meeting. Listed on the meeting agenda for council’s consideration tonight are: During the last meeting held July 17, Krawczun advised council members that – using estimated numbers and educated guesses – it was projected that the township will have a municipal budget shortfall of $932,008 for 2013. …
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