The July 27, 2009 Township Committee meeting agenda

[Guest]

Thank you Win! I agree with pointing out that money coming from any government source originates from the taxpayers - too many people think it is "free".

[Guest]

You and Win are 100% correct when you say it is our money. Unfortunately, our freeholders feel it's their money and way of giving back to the towns that support them. What would be great is if the county freeholders, state officals and federal government said, we're reducing taxes and getting rid of grants all around.

Since that does not happen it's an issue of having to put in or have our dollars go elsewhere in the county. Now, I don't support willy nilly projects for the sake of doing them like the ballfield and I do believe if you are doing something from grant money it should be covered or don't bother with the project to start with and that includes potential over runs. So for the ballfield if there is not enough grant money halt the project. Truthfully, that project never should have started because planning would have shown potential over runs in excess of the grant. I would look at projects like Liberty Way or the Dam which are required projects and look for grants. I would look at grants for the ballfield only because some members of TC are geared to completing the project regardless of cost impact and we can't afford for more town money to go onto this project.

However, until someone rises up and says no more grants at the county, state or Federal level we do need to explore them to lower our town tax rate whenever possible. Or towns like Plainsboro and New Brunswick will benefit from our tax payments leaving us with high county and town taxes.

[Guest]

I agree that it is necessary to pursue grants - considering the amount of taxes that Cranbury pays and does NOT get returned (ie for school funding), we should be applying for any type of grant for our projects.

[Cranbury]

Leave it to the rejects that are running the town, to screw up a simple baseball field. Monroe's new field on Applegarth looks great!

[Guest]