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OPEN SPACE FUNDING - Explained
- 1-8-2008
- Categorized in: City Council, Open Space Issues
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In case you missed it on January 2, 2008, the Hoboken City Council adopted an open space tax that will generate millions of dollars to buy land for new parks.
The ordinance, adopted Wednesday night, requires property owners to pay $20 for every $100,000 in assessed value. The money will be put into a trust fund, which the city will use to acquire and develop new park land.
Hoboken resident HELEN HIRSH spoke before the Council and expressed her concern that there appeared to be "no written guidelines" and "Council confusion" as to how the trust fund money would be allocated for new park land. Her question triggered a debate among some Council members who believed that the City could tap into the trust fund for the maintenance of both existing and newly created park lands.
The issue was resolved when Hoboken Corporation Counsel Steven Kleinman provided a legal opinion that the the money from the open space tax is divided into two parts: 75 percent will be used for acquiring land or funding a bond to acquire the land, and 25 percent will go toward turning newly acquired land into parks.
Kleinman went on to say that the city ordinance, as approved by referendum in the November, 2007 election, provides exclusively for 1) aquisition of the land, 2) developement of the land, and 3) payment for debt service.
The restrictions would also control the terms of any Open Space bonding. There are no provisions within the ordinance that would allow the use of the trust fund for maintenance of existing or new parks.
All park maintenance will continue to be funded out of the City's general funds.
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