Garwood tax increase more than Cranford and Westfield COMBINED per household

The budget proposed by the Garwood Finance Committee is more per household than Westfield and Cranford combined. While Garwood will see an $85 per $100,000 assessed increase, Westfield is at $50 and Cranford at $33. How can a borough of 4200 people see such drastic increases year after year? It is because we have people in charge that have zero real world budget experience. They simply copy and paste from the previous year and add increases. They have no plan, no solution. They push through their pet projects without allowing the people to vote on them and now our small town with a big heart is starting to see the ramifications of their carelessness. The previous blog post shows the breakdown of all the drastic increases that are hitting us, the taxpayers. It’s easy for them to spend our money without consideration of how it impacts our lives. Because of their will for power, greed and stubbornness, we chose a vanity project on which to put the names of politicians that is going to be used by a very small percentage of the Borough’s resident over basic infrastructure like roads, sewers, police, DPW and fire gear are falling into disrepair. Now they expect us to bear the brunt of their ineptitude. We, the taxpayers of Garwood, need to stand up and tell them we have had enough of their reckless spending. Write the local papers, post your comments, and lastly try to attend the council meetings. The latter is the most difficult I know, a 2 ½ hour meeting on a Tuesday night which is painfully boring is not the best way to interact with the community but until things change at the top we have very little choice.


For years they have gotten away with irresponsible increases. The purpose of this blog is to keep people informed and let everyone know the facts without the political spin. The numbers don't lie and we love this town too much to allow it to continue in the direction it's headed.