Vote for Baratta and Trawinski - Fair Lawn Council
on Nov. 8 - Column 1
The Baratta & Trawinski Progressive Republican Reforms Include:
Stopping Fair Lawn's excessive tax hikes
To hold down property taxes, runaway spending must be stopped. As a former mayor, Ed Trawinski held spending below the rate of inflation, and eliminated waste. He controlled property taxes then, and he will do so again.
Baratta and Trawinski will:
- End the corruption tax: Eliminate no-bid political contracts.
- Examine each government spending item and with a target of cutting $1 million in spending..
- Refinance the Recreation center's no hid bonds through competitive bid process.
- End free health benefits for elected officials.
Voter approval on borrowing.
Borough debt has skyrocketed under the town's current administration.
Paying off that debt now costs Fair Lawn taxpayers $850,000 a year - and that does not include the $800,000 yearly debt payment for the new recreation building.
Baratta and Trawinski will:
- End Mayor Ganz's borrowing schemes.
- Require a public referendum for any non-emergency borrowing of more than $3 million..
- Create a Citizens Oversight Committee on major borrowing and spending.
Ending political corruption
Mayor Ganz has brought the county's corrupt political pay off schemes to Fair Lawn. He's using your tax dollars to pay off major political donors to party organizations throughout New Jersey.
Baratta and Trawinski will:
- End the practice of rewarding political donors with taxpayer funded contracts. (Ban "Pay to Play.")
- Institute sweeping new ethics laws requiring anyone appearing before the council, zoning or planning board to disclose all political contributions made to borough and county elected officials and all county and state political organizations in New Jersey (something David Ganz refused to do as freeholder).
- Create a Citizens Oversight Committee on major borrowing and spending.
Preserving Open Space.
Baratta and Trawinski won't just talk about saving open space, they will actually do something about it.
The Baratta and Trawinski commitment to open space includes:
- A ban on town houses and high density development.
- A moratorium on development while accessing county and state open space trust funds to save open space including Daly and Archery fields and Haywood Plaza.
- Changing zoning laws to protect the integrity of our neighborhoods from overbuilding by banning McMansions.
Vote Baratta & Trawinski on November 8