Re: [AsburyPark] todays app - abbott lawsuit

[gtscarano212]

How much will the attorney fee be? In the eminent domain suit (city vs boe)  - how much did that cost each side? Piggybank.         Reminds me of inheritance lawsuits or divorce court. The lawyers collect the fees without budgets or cut-offs and nobody wins.   How much of your city tax dollars and state income tax dollars are paying the legal fees on both sides?   Which law firm is Richard Shapiro is from. To many on the Internet.  So far nobody offered up how AP teamed up with Perth Amboy in this law suit.   If Attorney General Zulima V. Farber  wins, what is the city manager going to do?  Is there any thing else to bond? Are the SUV's returnable? And the abatements for the new condos?       ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~   Asbury, Perth Amboy challenge state on Abbott money Posted by the Asbury Park Press on 04/14/06 BY RICK MALWITZ GANNETT NEW JERSEY In 1997, property taxpayers in Perth Amboy paid a school tax of $15,043,080. Taxpayers in Asbury Park paid $4,867,928. Eight years later, those figures remain the same. Now, with the state facing a budget deficit in excess of $4 billion, the administration of Gov. Corzine has asked the state Supreme Court to approve school tax hikes in eight of the state's poorer school districts. Eight of the state's 31 so-called Abbott Districts are affected. Perth Amboy and Asbury Park among them. But they are alone in challenging the governor. This week, in a brief submitted to the Supreme Court, attorney Richard Shapiro, who represents Perth Amboy and Asbury Park, stated, "The acting commissioner of education has no constitutional or legal authority, in the absence of enabling legislation, to direct local boards of education to increase their local tax levy." The Abbott Districts were created following a ruling by the state Supreme Court in 1981 that requires the state to provide extraordinary funding to poor districts. Twenty-five years after the ruling, the Abbott districts spend an average $3,000 per pupil higher than districts elsewhere in the state. Since 1997 local property taxpayers in the Abbott districts have paid about $2,000 per pupil, a figure that has been frozen. During that same period, taxpayers elsewhere have seen their per-pupil spending increase from $4,792 to $7,126. The court challenge by Perth Amboy and Asbury Park is a response to a brief filed last week by Attorney General Zulima V. Farber asking the court for its approval of the governor's 2007 budget on matters relating to the Abbott districts. The state argued, "The Abbott districts have not been required to exercise the fiscal discipline that the state and other school districts must undergo; instead they have been allowed to balance their budget through the virtually unlimited supplemental funding requests." Shapiro's brief on behalf of Per SPONSORED LINKS Asbury park home Asbury park nj Asbury park hotel Asbury park foreclosure Asbury park real estate Asbury park YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS  Visit your group "AsburyPark" on the web.    To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]    Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.