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Sea Isle
City Taxpayers Association It's your City. It's your money. It's your future! To subscribe to SICTA e-mail Alerts, join SICTA or contact us, visit the About SICTA page! |
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Sea Isle
City Taxpayers Association It's your City. It's your money. It's your future! To subscribe to SICTA e-mail Alerts, join SICTA or contact us, visit the About SICTA page! |
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Important News |
| SICTA/Sea Isle Revitalization/SIC Chamber Of Commerce annual SIC survey! Spend 10 minutes and tell us what you think about SIC: 2010 SICTA/SIR/Chamber of Commerce survey. [If you want to see what the final report will look like, visit the Charting Our Course page to see survey results from 2007 through 2009.] |
| SICTA Board & Public Mtg -- the public is encouraged to attend! Saturday, September 11, 10am, Council Mtg Room (Public Safety Bldg, 2nd floor). Interested in getting more involved with SICTA? We would love to chat with you! Please send an e-mail to info@sicta.org. |
| Excursion Park design plans! View the engineering firm's drawings presented at the 7/28 Council Mtg. Note: for some reason, the drawings were scanned in upside down. Use the "Rotate" option on the Adobe Reader's View Menu. |
| SICTA Research: 2009/2010 water & sewer rate study! 5/28/10 W&S update (includes list of top 31 w&s users!): 5/28/10 W&S update [For those of you who have been keeping up w/ w&s issues; if you need to get up-to-speed first, please visit our Water & Sewer page.] |
Board of Education News (including consolidation discussions)|
8/9/10 (Press) New Jersey teachers hope federal funds restore
raises |
5/2/10 (Press) Our Citizens Editorial Board gives their thoughts
on school budgets |
Archived Board of Education news
(lots of news and analysis)
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Recent SICTA News & Research, Municipal Documents, Noteworthy Newspaper Articles
Note: only Members receive the quarterly newsletter. Also, some of the items below are a bit old, but we leave them here because we think they are interesting and still relevant.
2010 SIC budget! The City's Budget Adoption Summary summarizes final budget and tax rate (+6.6%). and is consistent with our Charting Our Course research updated on 5/26. For more on the budget, please see our 2010 Budget Research page.Beach Replenishment 2010! See the presentation made by George Savastano to Council on 4/14. Read this Press of AC article, too.
SIC current municipal projects summary! The City presented a list of upcoming and in-progress projects to Council on 4/10/10. Very interesting! Part1 Part2 Part3
Proposed 2010 budget increase! SICTA Alert 1/28/10
SIC owes 40 million+ dollars ($40,000,000+) for
retiree health benefits!
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Alert (start here!). 2.
More in-depth analysis. 3.
Healthcare plan costs comparison.
SICTA Research: 2009 study of cost
allocations between general and sewer funds!
9/12/09 General Mtg Allocation slideshow [A few charts
-- this is an accounting issue -- but plenty of analysis, too!]
Recent News From Newspapers, etc.
Cape May County Herald's "Cape Issues" series archive
8/8/10 (Press) Two airlifted after car crash on Sea Isle City Bridge
8/4/10 (Press) Former Sea Isle City lighthouse faces demolition in fall
7/13/10 (Press) Sea Isle City considers moving May elections to November to save money
7/12/10 (Press) Stone Harbor tests allowing dogs on its entire beachfront; some owners need training
7/8/10 (Press) Sea Isle Ice Co. founder Joseph Romano dies at 73
7/7/10 (Press) Asbury Park to consider allowing topless beach
7/6/10 (Press) Cape May County asks towns to consider opening cooling centers
7/3/10 (Press) State lawmakers want to limit use of personal watercraft in coastal wetlands
7/2/10 (Captain Stone's Log, S.H.) Stone Harbor Health Benefits 2001-2009
7/2/10 (Press) Health coverage for Ocean City's council members / Missing the point
6/30/10 (Press) The cost of beach replenishment / Lack of competition
6/30/10 (Captain Stone's Log, S.H.) Cheers for Van Drew
6/18/10 (Press) New beach-access rules / Sensible compromise
6/16/10 (Press) An end to a tradition as Busch's Seafood nears closing in Sea Isle City
6/16/10 (Press) Stone Harbor letting dogs on beach after 7 p.m.
6/15/10 (Press) Sea Isle City starts voluntary bike registration program
6/11/10 (Press) Still-dangerous chemical weapons on the ocean floor / Dredging up the past
6/9/10 (Press) Idle Cape May Seashore Lines trains a growing source of frustration
6/9/10 (Press) Now on its way to vacationers' iPhones: The Jersey Cape "app"
6/9/10 (Press) Beach replenishment projects about to finish up in Sea Isle City, begin in Avalon
6/4/10 (Press) Crane falls into bay in Sea Isle City
6/4/10 (WWL New Orleans) National flood insurance program lapses, again
6/1/10 (Press) Condos vs. traditional hotels / Tax both equally
5/31/10 (Press) Double-dredging in Avalon, Sea Isle City gives beachgoers something to look at
5/28/10 (Press) Work to begin next week on $5.5 million library in Sea Isle City
5/27/10 (Press) Beachfill work under way in Sea Isle City
5/21/10 (Press) The ocean's dangers / Better warnings?
5/19/10 (Press) James Sherk / Public workers, unions and your taxes - it’s not just N.J.
5/14/10 (Press) Sea Isle City switches health plans, eliminates longevity pay for police
5/11/10 (Press) New Jersey to help pay for Avalon, Sea Isle beach fill project
5/4/10 (Press) Cape tourism conference focuses on small businesses
5/1/10 (Press) Oil spill fuels opposition to drilling off New Jersey coast