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E-PrinceState budget cuts and a loss of tax revenues will likely force the Borough to raise taxes by about 6.5 percent this year, Borough Administrator Robert Bruschi announced at the Borough Council meeting last night.
Bruschi raised the possibility ...
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I would say that the Borough is over-spending like a drunken sailor, but that would cast unkind aspersions on the brave men of the merchant marine.
The Borough welcomes suggestions from Mr. Scharf and from other members of the University community.
So the Borough council spends its days making life more difficult for the university community by hauling eating club presidents before council, blocking the Campus Pub, and making the D-Bar jump through hoop after hoop, and now it wants university support? I'm not opposed to giving it, I just think the University community should get something out of the deal. Otherwise, let them raise taxes on the borough residents to meet their funding shortfall.
The borough is just presenting one option: increase taxes. Are there any others?
Obtaining funds from the University “is not just a possibility; I think it will be a reality,” Bruschi said. Is this "Compulsory Donation"?
maybe if university students got off their high horses of entitlement, they'd realize that life at princeton would be pretty rugged if not for the contributions of the borough.
Thing is the U eats up most of the Borough's taxable land. If the U paid property taxes on all of the land that it owns you can bet it would be more than a million ninety-one thousand. And the U is only expanding, taking more taxable land and making it nontaxable.
I like Bruschi's arrogance: "it will be a reality." Some bored local who managed to get elected to the council of a 14,000 person town dictating to the best university in the world. Hilarious. Incidentally, "Bratty Student," I don't think life would be rough at all without the contributions of the borough. I think without the university, Princeton Borough would be another small middle-class New Jersey town that no one has ever heard of.
Incidentally, P'02 alum, Princeton University thought enough of the town to take its name.
How about this -- the Borough and the township merge. That will both expand the tax base, and not divide the University community into two separate administrative and electoral units. That way, we might actually get some students (grad or undergrad) elected to the council, and there might be some real representation of student interests in the body that taxes and regulates us.
And lose their seats? The horror!