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<font color="#0000ff">Editors Note: The following is Scorpo24's proposal for reform of city government and tax structure. As always the comments of the writers are their own. The Advocate merely exists to allow citizens to present their ideas in an intelligent and uncensored way for the betterment of the city. </font>

In order to counter the effects of the Doria 5 Year Bonding Plan, the Taxpaying Citizens of Bayonne are demanding that this 5 Year Austerity Plan be implemented. If the Mayor and Council refuse to adhere to these demands, the newly created “Taxpayer Citizen Board” will arrange to file legal actions in both State and Federal Courts, including the Bankruptcy Court.

If the Mayor and Council refuse to adhere to these demands the “Taxpayer Citizen Board” will arrange to open an Escrow account into which all Citizen Taxpayers will deposit their current taxes into, in order to force the matter into the Courts.

The above procedure is permissible when tenants have an uncooperative Slumlord and ought be equally permissible when the Taxpayer has a corrupt Mayor and Council who have mismanaged the City into a 400 Million Dollar Plus deficit.

A person running for Office at time of elections will be required to pledge in writing that he/she will follow this Plan.

The essential steps of the Plan are as follows:

1. Taxes are to be reduced Twenty Five (25 %) Percent across the board.

2. A budget is to be formulated that will not exceed the income from the taxes.

3. To effect the NEW Balanced budget, the attached 1 page City Employee Questioner is to be filled out by EVERY City employee, without exception.

4. A Seven (7) person Taxpayer Citizen Board is to be created, with mandated members consisting of those persons continually speaking out at Council meetings, such as Stan Mako, Mike Massone, Mr. Kantor and others that are to be selected by the three above named parties, no City politician or employee will be allowed on his Board.

5. The Taxpayer Citizen Board will have the responsibility of reviewing the “City Employee Questioner” supplied by the City employees, with the Duty to dismiss as many City employees as possible that they find as being non-essential to the operation of the City. They will have the duty to dismiss as many employees as possible, even if it means cutting certain City services. This including the dismissal of ALL Crossing guards (parents or volunteers will perform this service) and the dismissal of all Meter Maids, their function will be performed by the Police Department on their normal patrol, even if it means the poor Officers having to get out of the cars to write tickets.

6. The Taxpayer Citizen Board will create a “Citizen Volunteer Group” to compensate for the loss of minor City services, such as Park clean up (currently performed by the...