Tuesday, March 5, 2013
To help residents verify the identities of appraisers before allowing them into their homes, Lawrence Township has posted on its website copies of the photo identification cards carried by Professional Property Appraisers’ “field representatives.”
Lawrence Township’s property revaluation began in February and, over the course of the next several months, personnel from Professional Property Appraisers will be visiting each and every property in the township to conduct inspections of both the interiors and exteriors of all buildings in order to properly appraise the properties. To help residents verify the identities of the appraisers before allowing them into their homes, the township has posted on its website copies of the photo identification cards carried by Professional Property Appraisers’ “field representatives.” Copies of these photos can be found here and here, and also in the Patch media box to the right. Officials from the township and Professional Property Appraisers have …
Monday, February 18, 2013
Lawrence Township Council will meet tomorrow, Tuesday, Feb. 19, starting at 6:30 p.m. The meeting's agenda and the township manager's traditional pre-meeting memo are presented here for review.
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Monday, February 18
The next meeting of Lawrence Township Council will take place tomorrow, Tuesday, Feb. 19, beginning at 6:30 p.m. at the municipal building at 2207 Lawrence Rd. (Route 206). 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 recommended 2013 municipal budget will take place. Municipal Court Judge Kevin Nerwinski and Police Chief Daniel Posluszny are expected to make budget request presentations to council for their respective departments. Council will also hear an appeal from representatives of Mother’s Recovery Inc. concerning the denial of their application to provide towing …
Wednesday, February 6, 2013
The session to be held at 7 p.m. on Feb. 7 at the Lawrenceville Volunteer Fire Co. firehouse is intended to help Lawrence Township residents understand the ongoing township-wide revaluation process.
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Wednesday, February 6
The latest in a series of question-and-answer sessions intended to help Lawrence Township residents understand the ongoing township-wide revaluation process will be held tomorrow, Thursday, Feb. 7, at 7 p.m. at the Lawrenceville Volunteer Fire Co. firehouse on Gordon Avenue. The first such session was held on Jan. 24. Several more will be held this month. The sessions are being moderated by representatives of the League of Women Voters of Lawrence Township. As part of the revaluation – which was ordered by the Mercer County Board of Taxation – all properties in the township will be reassessed to full market value in an effort to more-equitably distribute the tax burden. As a result, some owners will see their assessments increase, while …
Friday, February 1, 2013
Payment must be submitted by the close of business on Feb. 11 to avoid interest charges.
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Friday, February 1
Today, Friday, Feb. 1, is the day first quarter 2013 tax bills are due to be paid by Lawrence Township taxpayers. Payments must be received in the tax office by 4:30 p.m. on Feb. 11 to avoid interest charges, according to a post on the township website. Anyone with questions should call the township tax office at (609) 844-7041. The tax office is open from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday.
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
About 50 people turned out last week for the first of several informational meetings that are being held about the property revaluation being conducted in Lawrence Township this year.
The first of five planned presentations about the township-wide property revaluation soon to begin in Lawrence Township was held last Thursday (Jan. 24), with about 50 residents attending the hour-long session at Lawrence High School. The first half of the meeting featured officials from the township and the company that will conduct the property assessments explaining the revaluation process, while the second half saw them answering questions posed by audience members. The question-and-answer period was moderated by Nicole Plett, a board representative of the Lawrence Township League of Women Voters who said that the goal of the night was to improve communication and transparency regarding revaluation and to help the “process go as …
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
Lawrence Township has published a list of over 275 properties whose owners who, as of Nov. 21, still owed 2011 taxes and/or other fees to the township.
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Tuesday, November 27, 2012
Lawrence Township has announced it will hold a tax sale on Monday, Dec. 10, beginning at 10 a.m. in the council chambers in the municipal building at 2207 Lawrence Rd. (Route 206). In preparation for the sale, the township has published on its website a list of more than 275 properties – both residential and commercial – located within Lawrence Township whose owners, as of Nov. 21, still owed money to the township in the form of municipal taxes, sewer fees and other charges from calendar year 2011. (The list of properties can also be found in the Patch media box to the right.) Property owners have until the close of business on Friday, Dec. 7, to settle their 2011 debts to avoid their properties being included in the Dec. 10 tax sale. Real…
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Because of the hurricane, Lawrence Township property owners now have until 4 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 16, to pay their fourth quarter taxes.
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Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Lawrence Township's fourth quarter taxes were due on Nov. 1, but due to Hurricane Sandy the usual 10-day grace period has been extended to Friday, Nov. 16. All tax payments must now be paid and received by the Tax Collector's Office before 4 p.m. that day. Any tax payments received after 4 p.m. on Nov. 16 will be subject to interest. "Interest is charged at the rates of 8 percent for balances of less than $1,500 and 18 percent for balances in excess of $1,500, charged from the original due date," according to the township's website. Questions should be directed to the tax Collector's Office at (609) 844-7041.
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 …
Pepper
3:58 pm on Monday, March 11, 2013
I was home today when the appraiser came by. He was in and out of the house in 5 minutes. He was wearing a jacket with the company logo and had a photo ID and was carrying a computer-tablet. He was very nice; asked me to show him the house, just counted bed/bathrooms, gave the dog a pat and was on his way. Easy! more ›