County Budget introduced

The Camden County Freeholders introduced a 2010 Budget of $323 million that increases employee contribution toward health benefits, freezes wages for employees not covered by current union contracts, has a wage cut for elected officials, and imposes furlough days for all non-public safety employees and raises taxes a net 2.3 percent. This year’s budget reflects a statewide budget crisis that has cut an estimated $1.8 million in direct funding and several million in funding to county agencies that the county government supports. They come on top of mandated increases like a $1 million hike in pension costs, a $5 million increase in health insurance, and the cost – in excess of $1 million dollars – of the
historic storms this past winter.