Our Issues
Bridgewater Needs Change
1. MANAGE THE BUDGET
Bridgewater residents can’t afford another 44 percent tax increase – that’s
how much the average Bridgewater property tax has increased in the past 8 years!
With years of successful business experience, the Ventantonio team will cut
expenses without sacrificing necessary services.
2. SAY NO TO UNNECESSARY LAWSUITS AND FINES
Bridgewater spent $17,500 in legal costs trying to defend a $5 fee for a public
record. Of course, township officials didn’t reach into their pockets to pay the
fine – they spent taxpayer money. How about another $100,000 for attorney fees
to defend the hastily-passed zoning ordinance that restricted houses of worship?
That’s a low estimate of what Bridgewater taxpayers may have to pay because
township officials didn’t have a proper zoning ordinance in place. That’s no way
to run a town!
3. RESTORE QUALITY OF LIFE
Bridgewater township officials aren’t taking any action to keep a dozen chemical
lagoons on the American Cyanamid Superfund site from seeping into the Raritan
River – even though they’re discharging carcinogenic and endocrinedisrupting
benzene at levels 20,000 times greater than the EPA standard
into our drinking water. Bridgewater’s infrastructure has been neglected, and
some neighborhoods lack even basic curbing. The Ventantonio team will make
Bridgewater’s health and safety a priority!The Township Council paid a half a million dollars from Bridgewater's Open Space Trust Fund to prevent development on his property. Then it voted to allow him to build cell-phone toweers on the land, acting on dubious legal advice from the same law firm that had represented the farmer in the initial transaction.
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