JCPS: How does the schools budget process work?
Update, Feb 5, 2021: I’m re-upping this post from 2020 to share with anyone who’s interested in the upcoming schools ...
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NJ Abatements: We need better abatement disclosures in NJ to show impact on public schools
This is post included in both my abatement series and a series about the User Friendly Budget in NJ. We ...
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The “User Friendly Budget”, part 5 – Abatements (with a Jersey City Focus)
Note: the visualizations below are best viewed on a computer or tablet (vs a phone). Jersey City recently announced it ...
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The “User Friendly Budget”, Part 4b: Public Health & Public Safety (with Focus on Police) Spending in the Garden State
This is a post in a series about NJ's User Friendly Budget. My intent is to share basic analysis and ...
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The “User Friendly Budget”, Part 4a: View Your Town’s Structural Spending with the “UFB-3 Appropriations Summary” Data
This is a post in a series about NJ's User Friendly Budget. My intent is to share basic analysis and ...
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The “User Friendly Budget”, Part 3: the “Cover Page”, an Inventory of NJ’s 565 Municipalities, & An Overview of How UFB Data was Compiled
This is a post in a series about NJ’s User Friendly Budget. My intent is to share basic analysis and ...
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The “User Friendly Budget”, Part 2: What’s in the User Friendly Budget?
This is part of a series about the User Friendly Budget. This is a relatively short post to lay out ...
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The “User Friendly Budget”, Part 1: Intro to the Series & How to Access the UFB
Five years ago, New Jersey began mandating that every municipality* in New Jersey file a “User Friendly Budget (UFB)” as ...
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Jersey City’s Proposed 2020 Budget (Tableau #DataViz)
In February 2020 the City Council introduced its 2020 budget (the city has typically approved the annual budget only in ...
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Jersey City’s 2019/20 Proposed Budget: Visualized Revenues
Every municipality is funded by a mix of income streams, including: Property taxes (everyone pays property tax...you either pay it ...
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How does Jersey City Spend Its Money? A Data Visualization of Budgets from 2015-2018
As we look towards the coming weeks and months, two local governing bodies are undergoing a public budgeting process: The ...
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Tax Abatements 601: Brighter Sunshine Mandated for NJ Abatements
Tax abatement reporting in Jersey City is finally getting more transparent. Two distinct authoritative bodies have mandated changes that require Jersey City (and other cities) ...
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