This post is part of a Civic Parent’s series, Take Your Seat at the Table: A Taxpayer’s Guide to Decoding Your City Budget. This series is a plain-language walk through New Jersey’s Municipal User Friendly Budget (UFB). The third page in the UFB is where we see how government money is spent and it’s a busy, somewhat...Continue reading
Month: November 2025
Following the Money: Where the City Gets Its Income (with Google Worksheet Tool)
This post is part of a Civic Parent’s series, Take Your Seat at the Table: A Taxpayer’s Guide to Decoding Your City Budget. This series is a plain-language walk through New Jersey’s Municipal User Friendly Budget (UFB). Page 2 of the User Friendly Budget shows the revenue side of the budget — where the city’s money...Continue reading