West Orange must get its financial house in order. Run away debt, executive mismanagement, and opaque spending must be addressed. Increasing our share of commercial rateables, and community centered planning are key to ensuring the financial future of West Orange and stabilizing property taxes. Most of our challenges are impacted by property taxes in one way or another. Our challenges is to simultaneously address spending, and revenue, as we get our fiscal house in order.

The social contract that residents pay taxes and that government officials then utilize those taxes on services that benefit the public is the bedrock of our form of government. This requires transparency, organized planning, and research from reliable sources. The following are meant to ensure property tax stability and common sense growth for the Township: 

• Approve well-planned, environmentally conscious mixed use zoning to bring commercial rateables into West Orange. 
• Sewer bill reform to move payments to a usage model.
• Township investment in parks ad the preservation of green spaces. Our budget should reflect our values in the Parks and the Arts District in order to improve infrastructure for residents but visitors as well.
• Redevelop Rock Spring through an RFQ.
• Publish how to appeal your tax assessment on the Town website.
• Smart investments and reviewing the Township budget for unnecessary/poorly planned spending to address and remove wasteful spending.