TICK TOCK, TICK TOCK……Evesham Taxpayers Anxiously Watch Chris Brown’s Budget Clock

            Nearly seven months into the year and Evesham taxpayers still don’t know how much more they will be paying in new local property taxes.

            For that, they can thank Councilman and Democrat Freeholder Candidate Chris Brown, whose past promises of spending and tax cuts are culminating instead in a 15 cent increase in the local property tax rate. That increase would raise taxes by over $2 million dollars.

            Trying to avoid admitting failure to deliver on lower taxes, Brown and council has now decided to further prolong the residents’ agony.  No definitive decision on Evesham’s budget will be made before the next township meeting on August 5th.

            “This is the same Chris Brown who ran for council last year on the promise that he would rein in spending and reduce taxes,” said Freeholder Stacey Jordan.  “Yet Evesham’s taxpayers are going to get a whopping increase in taxes under Brown’s leadership.”

             “It is an outrage that Chris Brown and his colleagues continue to delay adopting a budget to hide their ineptitude. It would be an even greater insult to the people of Evesham for their own Deputy Mayor to vote ‘No’ on this tax increase out of political convenience, rather than working with his fellow Council members on lowering taxes,” Jordan added. “But it appears Councilman Brown is comfortable with that scenario.”

            Freeholder Jordan is running for election with fellow Republican Freeholder Director Aubrey Fenton.  This year, Jordan and Fenton produced a county budget that reduced both the county tax rate and the actual amount of taxes required to run county government.

            “Chris Brown seems to thrive on outrageous promises about cutting spending and taxes,” Jordan said.  “But all indications are that they are just

that- empty promises that he will never deliver on.”