Video: Freeholder Head Says Unions Helped Keep Budget Under Control

Morris County Freeholder Margaret Nordstrom says the decision by most county unions to accept a wage freeze helped keep the proposed 2011 county budget under control.

It "really allowed us to bring the budget in well under the cap and also to have a net tax levy reduction," she said in Morris Minutes, a county-produced video series.

Under the proposed 2011 budget, the gross county tax levy is down $1.8 million from 2010, inclusive of a half-cent reduction in the Open Space Tax, with a spending increase of 1.59 percent.

A public hearing on the budget is scheduled for March 23, during a freeholder meeting that begins at 7:30 p.m. in the .

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