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Team Santiago Has Raised Your Taxes!!!

Team Santiago adopted the 2019 budget and yes they raised your taxes. Every Millville taxpayer will be hammered with an increase in your city, your school board, and your county taxes. Where is all this additional money going? Are the schools and government services better?   School population is decreasing. City and County services have not expanded or improved. However, the consultants and professional hires are doing quite well. Team Santiago will tell you that the increase is needed for extra police officers. That is not true. The last commission put the money for those officers in the budget with no increase. It just took Team Santiago this long to fill the positions. Make no mistake the increase in the budget is due to the $2 million dollar demolition of the Eagles building next to Jim’s Lunch that was not bid and was not an emergency. How do you like the grotesque looking expensive support system that now occupies a prime spot on Main Street?   The