Taxes And Spending: West Orange To Hold Town Budget Workshop

WEST ORANGE, NJ — The West Orange Town Council has scheduled a budget workshop for Tuesday, May 31.

According to a municipal notice, the workshop will take place at 6 p.m. at Town Hall, 66 Main Street. Action will be taken; no public comment will be heard.

Town officials posted a version of the draft budget online, which can be seen here.

A public hearing for the 2022 West Orange municipal budget was originally scheduled for May 3, but was postponed when a council member became ill, according to the town clerk's office. The hearing was then rescheduled for May 9, but was postponed again, the municipal finance department told Patch.

Property taxes in New Jersey are made up of three parts: school, municipal and county. Here's how that broke down in West Orange last year:

• School – 61.1%
• Municipal – 25.7%
• County – 13.2%

Earlier this month, the West Orange Board of Education unanimously approved the district's 2022-2023 budget, which will include a 2.42 percent tax increase for local homeowners.

It will mean a yearly tax increase of $218 for a home assessed at $336,282 – similar to what administrators predicted at a preliminary budget hearing in March.

• Read more: West Orange School Board Approves Budget; Here's The Tax Impact

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