New Jersey Budget Case Study

I was born February 13th, 1993 in Atlanta, Georgia, but I lived the majority of my life in New Jersey. The New Jersey residents were faced with a strong Nor’easter, which brought hurricane force winds and rough seas to the New Jersey area. Governor Florio let it be known that the state will pay for the damages from the surplus in the budget.

The record article from February 24, 1993 cited that the extra relief the state is providing would save the tourists and local beach goers between $60,000 and $120,000. Governor Florio mentioned the state would pay with the $200 million surplus from the 1993 budget, or from the $150 million surplus in his budget proposal for 1994. According to the Spring Lake mayor, the town will save almost $120,00. As you could imagine the beach fees will still have to be raised, but not as much, due to the savings of Spring Lake. There were many towns, mostly along the New Jersey coast, that had local tax increases to pay for the restoring of damages.

To prevent these high damages from happening again the state was focusing on shore protection, and reform laws. Luckily the state had time to get the

During this time there were several bills going around that could increase the state fuel tax by 25 cents per gallon. People were arguing that the transportation trust fund isn’t able to pay the debts and the state infrastructure is crumbling. Two democratic lawmakers were trying to freeze the gas tax, knowing that higher gas prices would reduce the number of tourists. This was putting New Jersey in a situation that they couldn’t win, high gas prices would mean lower tourism, but they need to make the infrastructure safe for the tourists to make the trip. From a 2013 report by the American Society of Civil Engineers, they found that 66 percent of the roads were poor and that 36 percent of the bridges were structurally