Hoboken municipal departments have cut over $1 million dollars to combat the city’s $17 million deficit, but “a tax increase is still unavoidable,” according to Mayor Emily Jabbour.
“We have identified over $1 million in cuts already. Across the board, our departments stepped up and found ways to cut their spending from last year in over a million dollars. But here’s the honest truth, even with those cuts, a tax increase is still unavoidable,” Jabbour said in a video posted on social media late Friday night.
“We’ve worked hard to keep that increase as low as possible without cutting the core services that people rely on everyday. Because when you cut core services, you feel it immediately. And let me be clear, we are not going to cut core services. Hard stop.”
She also addressed why the Mile Square City isn’t looking into layoffs, explaining that Hoboken’s population has increased 20 percent since 2010 and the municipal government workforce has gone down 10 percent…