Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Kyrillos: Shared Services, Tool Kit Needed

New Jersey State Senator Joe Kyrillos (R- Monmouth) today supported Senate President Steve Sweeney’s (D- Gloucester) efforts to renew focus on shared services and regionalization among municipal governments while calling for immediate passage of “tool kit” reforms.
“I have long been a proponent, as has the Senate President, of having municipalities realize economies of scale by sharing services where it makes sense,” said Senator Kyrillos. “New Jersey’s property tax problem has many causes, one being the duplication of government functions from schools to snow plows among smaller municipalities. The recently enacted property freeze will compel shared services and some consolidation in the fullness of time”
Kyrillos also renewed his call for Democrat leaders to stop delaying action on the Governor’s toolkit package. “We must not leave any measure on the table that will help reduce property taxes,” he said. “Regionalization and shared services are obviously part of the equation, but meaningful pension and arbitration reforms that will reduce labor costs are essential.”
“Senator Sweeney himself declared these measures a necessary compliment to the two percent property tax cap that will go into effect on January 1, 2011. It’s fine to bring shared services into the discussion but there is no excuse to delay action on other and all important reforms. We essentially took off the third quarter of 2010. Few organizations have this luxury. Time is ticking for the final quarter and year’s end.”

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