Municipal State Aid for Morristown Flat in 2012

Morristown will receive $2,868,599 in municipal state aid this year, the same amount it received in 2011.

All Morris County muncipalities are receiving municipal state aid numbers identical to what they received last year. Morris Township will again receive $3,279,941 while Morris Plains will get $613,886.

As the town continues to work on its FY2012-13 budget, Mayor Tim Dougherty said it was good that the numbers have been released by the state, so that part of the budget process can move forward. 

"Once we get these state aid numbers plugged in, it gets that part out of the way," he said Thursday. "Until the numbers came out, we didn't know."

Another thing Morristown did not know was whether state aid would decrease. The mayor noted that, since 2008, municipal state aid for Morristown has dropped about $800,000. 

"Usually, we get some information coming out of Trenton that they'll be a decrease," he said. "[Since we didn't,] we anticipated it would be flat.

"We'll take that it's flat," Dougherty added. "Every municipality needs the revenue. Still, with a down economy, you don't know what the state is going to do. We're happy the state aid for our municipality has stayed flat. It's a revenue source the town needs."

The mayor said the town could bring this year's municipal budget to the public by April.