State Of New Jersey, Englewood Home Owners Association (EHOA)

<a href="library/Newsletters/Dec2002/index_m.htm">December 2002</a><br> <a href="library/Newsletters/Sept2002/index_m.htm">September 2002</a><br> <a href="library/Newsletters/June2002/index_m.htm">June 2002</a><br> <a href="library/Newsletters/Feb2002/index_m.htm">February 2002</a><br> <a href="library/Newsletters/Dec2001/index_m.htm">December 2001</a><br> <a href="library/Newsletters/Sept2001/index_m.htm">September 2001</a><br> <a href="library/Newsletters/May2001/index_m.htm">May 2001</a><br> <a href="library/Newsletters/May2001/index_m.htm">July 2001</a><br> <a href="library/Newsletters/May2001/index_m.htm">May 2000</a> <body bgcolor="#E8E8D8" background="file:///C|/images/Image3.gif" lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='tab-interval:.5in' onload="setStatus()" onunload="setStatus()"> <div class=Section1> <p style='margin-left:35.25pt'> </p> <h2 style="margin-left:1.0in"> LIVING WITH TERRORISM III</h2> <h1 style="margin-left:1.0in"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-size: 10.0pt">Budget Chills</span></font></b></h1> <h3 style="margin-left:1.0in"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; font-size: 10.0pt">By Eugenia Vogel</span></font></i></h3> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left:1.0in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">The last Tuesday in January it was 60 degrees outside. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Yet, there was a special chill in the air, a chill that did not assail our bones but our wallets.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>It was budget time for Englewood!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>The City is raising taxes and the County as well.</span></font></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left:1.0in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">The impact of our national financial crisis is of paramount concern to the EHOA Board, so we have formed a <i><span style="font-style:italic">Tax Watch Committee</span></i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Three board members, well seasoned in financial matters, are assessing ways to make our high taxes more bearable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Our goal is to locate areas where expenses can be cut or shared with other municipalities or the County.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>When completed, we will present our findings to you and to our City Council.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Let’s face it, the recession has affected every homeowner without exception.</span></font></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left:1.0in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Our government in Washington must make our country safe, from our coastlines and skies to our borders.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>They must protect the infrastructure of every one of our cities and towns.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Terrorism is not over.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Our homeland security is a top priority and a major endeavor, and it will cost billions of dollars.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>There is no question that this expense cannot be spared, for the safety of America.</span></font></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left:1.0in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">In times of terror and financial trouble our local government has the obligation, before it approves any proposed budgets, to separate expenses that are <i><span style="font-style:italic">essential</span></i> from those which are not.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></span></font></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left:1.0in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">In my opinion, firemen and police are <i><span style="font-style:italic">essential</span></i> for the safety of residents and the people who work here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>During the City Council budget hearings I learned that we have 79 police officers and 63 fire personnel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>The Police Department proposed a budget for about $8 million dollars and the Fire Department proposed a budget for about $4,700,000.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>These sums include gross salaries.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></span></font></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left:1.0in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">There were 200,000 visits to our library last year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Don Jacobsen proposed a budget for the library of about $1,500,000.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>This sum includes gross salaries.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Mr. Jacobsen stressed to the City Council that the public restrooms in the library need repair.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></span></font></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left:1.0in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">We are now collecting $198,000 from Englewood Cliffs, who share our library services.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Last year Englewood Cliffs paid $150,000.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>The Cliffs have always given Englewood a hard time in paying their fair share for use of our library.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>The good news is that from now on, under a new system, Englewood Cliffs residents have to use our library services.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>I was hoping that Mayor Fader, during his negotiations with Mayor Parisi, would have obtained at least $300,000 for Englewood.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>My hopes were based on the fact that our Mayor is a skillful litigator, and I thought he would be able to convince Mr. Parisi as smoothly as he convinces jurors, but no such luck.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>I am a bit disappointed the best he could do was to obtain $48,000 more from the wealthy Cliffs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></span></font></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left:1.0in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">It was good to learn that we are saving about $150,000 by sharing leaf management with Leonia, which is done by a private company.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Englewood is also collaborating with Leonia for snow removal as one example of recent cost saving regionalization measures.</span></font></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left:1.0in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">The City also saved between $110,000 and $150,000 by closing down our animal control center and allowing the County to perform this function.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>The City has saved about another $150,000 since the County implemented the Social Service Board, which took that burden off the taxpayers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></span></font></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left:1.0in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">The Department of Public Works proposed a budget of about $3,900,000.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>This includes gross salaries.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>The DPW is responsible for garbage pickup, recycling, snow removal, leaf pickup and property maintenance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Additional cost sharing with neighboring communities could bring this cost down.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">   </span>But the DPW has a strong Union and the privatization of these services may prove too difficult to achieve.</span></font></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left:1.0in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Mrs. Cherry, the Health Department Director, gave a lengthy presentation for their proposed budget during the last budget hearing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Three members of the Municipal Democratic Committee (where she also sits) accompanied her, as well as members of her staff, one board member and four of her close supporters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>She also brought her wish list.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>The proposed budget is $635,000.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>We learned that the department has 14 ½ employees of which two are paid by a grant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Mrs. Cherry repeatedly said that this was her 28<sup>th</sup> year of service to the City of Englewood.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Her wish list included the construction of additional space for the Health Department and a third car.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>The department also mails about 40,000 newsletters a year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Is this truly necessary?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>During the hearing, City Council President Mitch Rosenberg said that the health educator for the <i><span style="font-style:italic">TEEN REACH-TEACH Program</span></i> is generously funded by Englewood Hospital.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>The hospital contributes between 50 to 75% of the costs of this program.</span></font></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left:1.0in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Englewood hospital offers quality services for the uninsured, which is funded by the New Jersey State Department of Health and Senior Services Health Care for the Uninsured program.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>For adults they have 9 examination rooms, and for children 6 examination rooms are available.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">   </span>In the spring skin cancer screening is offered.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>In the Fall free prostate cancer screening is also offered and during the summer, blood pressure and cholesterol screenings during the City’s health fair “Englewood Day”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>If you are interested you can check out their website at www.englewoodhospital.com for a calendar of events, free lectures, free screenings and education.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>I wish our Health Department could share more services with Englewood Hospital as the Teaneck Health Department does with Holy Name Hospital.</span></font></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left:1.0in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">As the economy is sinking and Governor James McGreevey is calling for cost cuts across the board, we find the Health Department’s budget, and their additional requests, unreasonable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Bergenfield, according to the 2000 census, has a multicultural population slightly larger than Englewood.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Yet Bergenfield’s health department has a budget less than half of Mrs. Cherry’s proposed budget!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Bergenfield’s health department has 6 fulltime employees, a couple of part-time employees and a volunteer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>They have a budget of about $275,000 including salaries.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">    </span>They have the use of two cars and if they need additional transportation they use their own vehicles and the employee receives mileage costs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>The registrar doubles as board secretary.</span></font></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left:1.0in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Through the passage of time, the Englewood Health Director has reached an extraordinary salary level of $115,000 plus about 25% more in pension and benefits.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Bergenfield’s senior health official receives a salary of about $66,000.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Mrs. Cherry appears to be the highest paid health official per capita in the State and maybe the country.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>We will continue with our research in finding out how other local governments, with similar multicultural populations like Englewood, manage the budget of their health departments.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>It seems there is ample room for cost cuts or cost sharing in this particular area.</span></font></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left:1.0in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">The ultimate decision in approving all the proposed budgets lies with our five City Councilmen.</span></font></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left:1.0in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Finally, I once again urge you to remain vigilant and aware of your surroundings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Above all, do not hesitate to contact police if you see or hear anything that may be suspicious.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Terrorism breeds dangerous derivatives such as copycats and revenges.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Violence invites violence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></span></font></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left:1.0in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Let’s do our part to prevent it.</span></font></p> <h3 style="margin-left:1.0in"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; font-size: 10.0pt">Eugenia Vogel</span></font></i></h3> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in">  <o:p> </o:p> </p> <h1 style="margin-left:1.0in"> February 2002: Are We Any Different?</h1> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left:1.0in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Last night, a late night talk show host was discussing how his behavior had changed after September 11.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>He said that for a while after the attacks, he found himself driving differently – not cursing when another car cut in front of him, and sometimes even slowing down to let cars ease into his line of traffic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>A multi-page ad in the <i><span style="font-style:italic">New York Times</span></i> last weekend summed it up this way: “<b><span style="font-weight:bold">On September 12, drivers waved at fellow drivers with all 5 fingers.</span></b>”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>All of us witnessed the compassion and love that united our country on September 12.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Most of us tried to ease our own pain by easing someone else’s, or at the very least, by waving to a stranger.</span></font></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left:1.0in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">But largely unspoken, until now, was<i><span style="font-style:italic"> what happened in the five months from September 12 to February 12</span></i>?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>The talk show host starkly announced last night that he was back to his old habits of aggressive driving.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>He was smug and drew laughs, boasting about his latest demonstrations of <i><span style="font-style:italic">aggression</span></i> and <i><span style="font-style: italic">road rage </span></i>while he was driving.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>How far have we come in the five months since September 12?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>It seems we are now able to make jokes about how nothing has really changed – well, other than maybe for the 3,000 grieving families.</span></font></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left:1.0in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt">A major concern of our leaders after September 11 was that we “get back to our lives”. Isn’t it sad that <i><span style="font-style:italic">all </span></i>these things – the bad and the good -- <i><span style="font-style:italic">have </span></i>so quickly returned to <i><span style="font-style:italic">“normal</span></i>”. As one expert, addressing a conference of victims’ families said, “In the days after a disaster, everybody wants to help.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>But that fades. People tend to say, ‘O.K., that’s enough.’”<o:p> </o:p> </span></font></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left:1.0in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">And to what have we returned?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Every day I look out from my yard and watch dozens of people aggressively breaking the law.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>A few days ago, as I played with my three-year-old son, I watched an elderly man walking along the street nearly get hit by a speeding car.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>We looked at each other speechless for a few moments.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>He just shook his head and said, “It’s getting worse every day!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>And the sad thing is, most of them live in the neighborhood!”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>These thoughtless drivers are not terrorists, but people like you and me, who needlessly put lives in jeopardy every day.</span></font></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left:1.0in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt">Although not nearly as dramatic as the WTC bombings, those who drive aggressively by speeding have killed more than 150,000 people throughout our country since 1989, killing far more than those who have died from acts of terrorism. And this group kills another 35 people <i><span style="font-style:italic">every day, </span></i>often killing themselves along with their innocent victims! That’s over 12,000 deaths every year -- 12,000 grieving families that could be prevented by <i><span style="font-style:italic">just slowing down while drivin</span></i>g.</span></font></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left:1.0in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Since 1989 over 500,000 people have lost their lives in traffic crashes with approximately one-third of these caused by speeding.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Another 3.3 million people are injured every year in motor vehicle accidents.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>On average, a pedestrian is <i><span style="font-style:italic">killed</span></i> in a motor vehicle crash every 107 minutes; one is <i><span style="font-style: italic">injured</span></i> every 6 minutes!</span></font></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left:1.0in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Motor vehicle accidents are estimated to cost our country over <i><span style="font-style:italic">$150 billion</span></i> <i><span style="font-style:italic">every year</span></i>!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>This is in addition to the incalculable cost of human suffering and pain felt by the victims and their families.</span></font></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left:1.0in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Throughout our country, speeding in residential neighborhoods is the single largest complaint to police departments and city councils.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><b><span style="font-weight: bold">And most speeders in your neighborhood live in your neighborhood</span></b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>It is not unusual for speeders to be clocked in excess of 40 or 50 mph in a 25-mph zone.</span></font></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left:1.0in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Speeding is often a symptom of <i><span style="font-style:italic">aggressive driving. </span></i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>These drivers use the anonymity of their automobiles to take out their frustrations on other drivers, or anyone who offends them.</span></font></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left:1.0in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">In addition to speeding, some of the other symptoms of <i><span style="font-style:italic">aggressive driving</span></i> include:</span></font></p> <blockquote> <blockquote> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops:list 1.25in"><font size="2" face="Symbol"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol">·<font size="1" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">   </span></font></span></font><font size="1" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Symbol">   </span></font><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""><font size="1" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol"><font size="2" face="Symbol"> </font></span></font></span>Disregard for traffic signals;</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops:list .75in"><font size="2" face="Symbol"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol">·<font size="1" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">         </span></font></span></font>Cutting off other drivers;</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops:list .75in"><font size="2" face="Symbol"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol">·<font size="1" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">         </span></font></span></font>Tailgating</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops:list .75in"><font size="2" color="black" face="Symbol"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·<font size="1" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">         </span></font></span></font>Weaving through traffic;<font color="black"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p> </span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops:list .75in"><font size="2" face="Symbol"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol">·<font size="1" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">         </span></font></span></font>Driving faster than surrounding traffic;</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops:list .75in"><font size="2" face="Symbol"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol">·<font size="1" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">         </span></font></span></font>Improper passing;</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops:list .75in"><font size="2" color="black" face="Symbol"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·<font size="1" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">         </span></font></span></font>Making obscene gestures;<font color="black"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p> </span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops:list .75in"><font size="2" color="black" face="Symbol"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·<font size="1" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">         </span></font></span></font>Honking horns.<font color="black"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p> </span></font></p> </blockquote> </blockquote> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><font size="2" color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"> </span><o:p> </o:p> </font></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left:1.0in"> <img width="483" height="513" src="images/index.1.gif" align="right" hspace="12" v:shapes="_x0000_s1026"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><b><span style="font-weight:bold">You <i><span style="font-style:italic">can</span></i> make a difference.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span></span></b>Reducing your speed and avoiding <i><span style="font-style:italic">aggressive driving </span></i>in our neighborhoods will not just reduce your chances of killing or injuring someone else or yourself, it provides an example that will encourage others do the same.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Observe the 25-mile per hour speed limit in our residential neighborhoods and talk with neighbors about your concern for the safety of our children.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Request our Police Department to enforce the speed limit in our neighborhoods.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">   </span>Request the City Council to do a traffic study to gauge the extent of the speeding in our city.</span></font></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left:1.0in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Most importantly, when you are driving and see someone walking along through the neighborhood, slow down, wave, and think about the victims of September 11, and how their deaths really did change the way we think about and live our lives.</span></font></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in; margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Let’s honor the victims of September 11 by being a kinder, gentler Englewood.</span></font></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in; margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"> <o:p> </o:p> </span></font></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left:1.0in"> </p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left:1.0in"><i><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-style:italic">Michael P. Anton</span></font></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in">  <o:p> </o:p> </p> <h1 style="margin-left:1.5in"> <o:p> </o:p>Analysis of 6 Year Trend in Taxes</h1> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="686" style="width:514.6pt; margin-left:.5in;border-collapse:collapse;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 0in 0in"> <tr height="17" style="height:12.75pt"> <td nowrap height="17" valign="bottom" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;height: 12.75pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"> <font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Arial Unicode MS""><o:p> </o:p> </span></font></p> </td> <td nowrap height="17" valign="bottom" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;height: 12.75pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"> <font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Arial Unicode MS""><o:p> </o:p> </span></font></p> </td> <td nowrap height="17" valign="bottom" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;height: 12.75pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-size: 10.0pt"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>6 Year Increase </span></font><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Arial Unicode MS""><o:p> </o:p> </span></p> </td> <td nowrap height="17" valign="bottom" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;height: 12.75pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"> <font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Arial Unicode MS""><o:p> </o:p> </span></font></p> </td> <td nowrap height="17" valign="bottom" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;height: 12.75pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-size: 10.0pt"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Comments </span></font><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Arial Unicode MS""><o:p> </o:p> </span></p> </td> <td nowrap height="17" valign="bottom" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;height: 12.75pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"> <font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Arial Unicode MS""><o:p> </o:p> </span></font></p> </td> <td nowrap height="17" valign="bottom" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;height: 12.75pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"> <font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Arial Unicode MS""><o:p> </o:p> </span></font></p> </td> <td nowrap height="17" valign="bottom" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;height: 12.75pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"> <font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Arial Unicode MS""><o:p> </o:p> </span></font></p> </td> <td nowrap height="17" valign="bottom" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;height: 12.75pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"> <font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Arial Unicode MS""><o:p> </o:p> </span></font></p> </td> </tr> <tr height="17" style="height:12.75pt"> <td nowrap colspan="2" height="17" valign="bottom" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in; height:12.75pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-size: 10.0pt">County</span></font><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Arial Unicode MS""><o:p> </o:p> </span></p> </td> <td nowrap height="17" valign="bottom" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;height: 12.75pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-size: 10.0pt">10.6%</span></font><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Arial Unicode MS""><o:p> </o:p> </span></p> </td> <td nowrap colspan="6" height="17" valign="bottom" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in; height:12.75pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-size: 10.0pt">The 6 year tax increase is very similar to the inflation rate</span></font><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Arial Unicode MS""><o:p> </o:p> </span></p> </td> </tr> <tr height="17" style="height:12.75pt"> <td nowrap height="17" valign="bottom" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;height: 12.75pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-size: 10.0pt">BCUA</span></font><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Arial Unicode MS""><o:p> </o:p> </span></p> </td> <td nowrap height="17" valign="bottom" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;height: 12.75pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"> <font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Arial Unicode MS""><o:p> </o:p> </span></font></p> </td> <td nowrap height="17" valign="bottom" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;height: 12.75pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-size: 10.0pt">-30.5%</span></font><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Arial Unicode MS""><o:p> </o:p> </span></p> </td> <td nowrap colspan="6" height="17" valign="bottom" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in; height:12.75pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-size: 10.0pt">This tax dropped for several years but had a big increase in 2001</span></font><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Arial Unicode MS""><o:p> </o:p> </span></p> </td> </tr> <tr height="17" style="height:12.75pt"> <td nowrap height="17" valign="bottom" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;height: 12.75pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-size: 10.0pt">City</span></font><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Arial Unicode MS""><o:p> </o:p> </span></p> </td> <td nowrap height="17" valign="bottom" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;height: 12.75pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"> <font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Arial Unicode MS""><o:p> </o:p> </span></font></p> </td> <td nowrap height="17" valign="bottom" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;height: 12.75pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-size: 10.0pt">9.2%</span></font><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Arial Unicode MS""><o:p> </o:p> </span></p> </td> <td nowrap colspan="6" height="17" valign="bottom" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in; height:12.75pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-size: 10.0pt">The 6 year tax increase is very similar to the inflation rate</span></font><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Arial Unicode MS""><o:p> </o:p> </span></p> </td> </tr> <tr height="17" style="height:12.75pt"> <td nowrap colspan="2" height="17" valign="bottom" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in; height:12.75pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-size: 10.0pt">School</span></font><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Arial Unicode MS""><o:p> </o:p> </span></p> </td> <td nowrap height="17" valign="bottom" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;height: 12.75pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-size: 10.0pt">20.4%</span></font><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Arial Unicode MS""><o:p> </o:p> </span></p> </td> <td width="448" colspan="6" rowspan="2" valign="top" style="width:336.1pt;padding: 0in 0in 0in 0in;height:12.75pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-size: 10.0pt"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The school budget had a very large increase in 1998 and significant increases in every other year. These increases are much higher than the inflation rate. Since there was no increase in enrollment, we are now spending about 10% more per student after adjusting for inflation. The real issue is are we spending this money properly.</span></font><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Arial Unicode MS""><o:p> </o:p> </span></p> </td> </tr> <tr height="17" style="height:12.75pt"> <td nowrap height="17" valign="bottom" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;height: 12.75pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"> <font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Arial Unicode MS""><o:p> </o:p> </span></font></p> </td> <td nowrap height="17" valign="bottom" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;height: 12.75pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"> <font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Arial Unicode MS""><o:p> </o:p> </span></font></p> </td> <td nowrap height="17" valign="bottom" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;height: 12.75pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"> <font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Arial Unicode MS""><o:p> </o:p> </span></font></p> </td> </tr> </table> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:2.0in"><u><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"> </span><o:p> </o:p> </font></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:2.0in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-size: 10.0pt">City of Englewood 6 Year Tax History & Analysis</span></font></p> <table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="675" style="width:506.4pt; margin-left:.5in;border-collapse:collapse;border:none;mso-border-top-alt:solid green 1.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt:solid green 1.5pt;mso-padding-alt:0in 1.5pt 0in 1.5pt"> <tr height="17" style="height:12.5pt"> <td height="17" valign="top" style="border:none;border-top:solid green 1.5pt; padding:0in 1.5pt 0in 1.5pt;height:12.5pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"> <font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p> </span></font></p> </td> <td height="17" valign="top" style="border:none;border-top:solid green 1.5pt; padding:0in 1.5pt 0in 1.5pt;height:12.5pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><u><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-size: 10.0pt">Year<o:p> </o:p> </span></font></u></p> </td> <td height="17" valign="top" style="border:none;border-top:solid green 1.5pt; padding:0in 1.5pt 0in 1.5pt;height:12.5pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><u><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-size: 10.0pt">School<o:p> </o:p> </span></font></u></p> </td> <td height="17" valign="top" style="border:none;border-top:solid green 1.5pt; padding:0in 1.5pt 0in 1.5pt;height:12.5pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><u><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-size: 10.0pt">City<o:p> </o:p> </span></font></u></p> </td> <td width="126" height="17" valign="top" style="width:94.4pt;border:none; border-top:solid green 1.5pt;padding:0in 1.5pt 0in 1.5pt;height:12.5pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><u><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-size: 10.0pt">BCUA<o:p> </o:p> </span></font></u></p> </td> <td width="110" height="17" valign="top" style="width:1.15in;border:none; border-top:solid green 1.5pt;padding:0in 1.5pt 0in 1.5pt;height:12.5pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><u><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-size: 10.0pt">County<o:p> </o:p> </span></font></u></p> </td> <td width="118" height="17" valign="top" style="width:88.2pt;border:none; border-top:solid green 1.5pt;padding:0in 1.5pt 0in 1.5pt;height:12.5pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><u><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-size: 10.0pt">Total<o:p> </o:p> </span></font></u></p> </td> </tr> <tr height="17" style="height:12.5pt"> <td height="17" valign="top" style="border:none;padding:0in 1.5pt 0in 1.5pt; height:12.5pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"> <font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p> </span></font></p> </td> <td height="17" valign="top" style="border:none;padding:0in 1.5pt 0in 1.5pt; height:12.5pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-size: 10.0pt">1995</span></font></p> </td> <td height="17" valign="top" style="border:none;padding:0in 1.5pt 0in 1.5pt; height:12.5pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-size: 10.0pt">24,531,844</span></font></p> </td> <td height="17" valign="top" style="border:none;padding:0in 1.5pt 0in 1.5pt; height:12.5pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-size: 10.0pt">23,419,956</span></font></p> </td> <td width="126" height="17" valign="top" style="width:94.4pt;border:none; padding:0in 1.5pt 0in 1.5pt;height:12.5pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-size: 10.0pt">2,714,671</span></font></p> </td> <td width="110" height="17" valign="top" style="width:1.15in;border:none; padding:0in 1.5pt 0in 1.5pt;height:12.5pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-size: 10.0pt">5,387,190</span></font></p> </td> <td width="118" height="17" valign="top" style="width:88.2pt;border:none; padding:0in 1.5pt 0in 1.5pt;height:12.5pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-size: 10.0pt">56,053,661</span></font></p> </td> </tr> <tr height="17" style="height:12.5pt"> <td height="17" valign="top" style="border:none;padding:0in 1.5pt 0in 1.5pt; height:12.5pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"> <font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p> </span></font></p> </td> <td height="17" valign="top" style="border:none;padding:0in 1.5pt 0in 1.5pt; height:12.5pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-size: 10.0pt">1996</span></font></p> </td> <td height="17" valign="top" style="border:none;padding:0in 1.5pt 0in 1.5pt; height:12.5pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-size: 10.0pt">25,225,656</span></font></p> </td> <td height="17" valign="top" style="border:none;padding:0in 1.5pt 0in 1.5pt; height:12.5pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-size: 10.0pt">23,406,187</span></font></p> </td> <td width="126" height="17" valign="top" style="width:94.4pt;border:none; padding:0in 1.5pt 0in 1.5pt;height:12.5pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-size: 10.0pt">2,636,880</span></font></p> </td> <td width="110" height="17" valign="top" style="width:1.15in;border:none; padding:0in 1.5pt 0in 1.5pt;height:12.5pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-size: 10.0pt">5,542,530</span></font></p> </td> <td width="118" height="17" valign="top" style="width:88.2pt;border:none; padding:0in 1.5pt 0in 1.5pt;height:12.5pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-size: 10.0pt">56,811,253</span></font></p> </td> </tr> <tr height="17" style="height:12.5pt"> <td height="17" valign="top" style="border:none;padding:0in 1.5pt 0in 1.5pt; height:12.5pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"> <font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p> </span></font></p> </td> <td height="17" valign="top" style="border:none;padding:0in 1.5pt 0in 1.5pt; height:12.5pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-size: 10.0pt">1997</span></font></p> </td> <td height="17" valign="top" style="border:none;padding:0in 1.5pt 0in 1.5pt; height:12.5pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-size: 10.0pt">25,603,170</span></font></p> </td> <td height="17" valign="top" style="border:none;padding:0in 1.5pt 0in 1.5pt; height:12.5pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-size: 10.0pt">24,061,666</span></font></p> </td> <td width="126" height="17" valign="top" style="width:94.4pt;border:none; padding:0in 1.5pt 0in 1.5pt;height:12.5pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-size: 10.0pt">1,962,159</span></font></p> </td> <td width="110" height="17" valign="top" style="width:1.15in;border:none; padding:0in 1.5pt 0in 1.5pt;height:12.5pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-size: 10.0pt">5,112,044</span></font></p> </td> <td width="118" height="17" valign="top" style="width:88.2pt;border:none; padding:0in 1.5pt 0in 1.5pt;height:12.5pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-size: 10.0pt">56,739,039</span></font></p> </td> </tr> <tr height="17" style="height:12.5pt"> <td height="17" valign="top" style="border:none;padding:0in 1.5pt 0in 1.5pt; height:12.5pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"> <font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p> </span></font></p> </td> <td height="17" valign="top" style="border:none;padding:0in 1.5pt 0in 1.5pt; height:12.5pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-size: 10.0pt">1998</span></font></p> </td> <td height="17" valign="top" style="border:none;padding:0in 1.5pt 0in 1.5pt; height:12.5pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-size: 10.0pt">27,649,781</span></font></p> </td> <td height="17" valign="top" style="border:none;padding:0in 1.5pt 0in 1.5pt; height:12.5pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-size: 10.0pt">24,779,574</span></font></p> </td> <td width="126" height="17" valign="top" style="width:94.4pt;border:none; padding:0in 1.5pt 0in 1.5pt;height:12.5pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-size: 10.0pt">1,698,510</span></font></p> </td> <td width="110" height="17" valign="top" style="width:1.15in;border:none; padding:0in 1.5pt 0in 1.5pt;height:12.5pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-size: 10.0pt">5,351,078</span></font></p> </td> <td width="118" height="17" valign="top" style="width:88.2pt;border:none; padding:0in 1.5pt 0in 1.5pt;height:12.5pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-size: 10.0pt">59,478,943</span></font></p> </td> </tr> <tr height="17" style="height:12.5pt"> <td height="17" valign="top" style="border:none;padding:0in 1.5pt 0in 1.5pt; height:12.5pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"> <font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p> </span></font></p> </td> <td height="17" valign="top" style="border:none;padding:0in 1.5pt 0in 1.5pt; height:12.5pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-size: 10.0pt">1999</span></font></p> </td> <td height="17" valign="top" style="border:none;padding:0in 1.5pt 0in 1.5pt; height:12.5pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-size: 10.0pt">28,191,317</span></font></p> </td> <td height="17" valign="top" style="border:none;padding:0in 1.5pt 0in 1.5pt; height:12.5pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-size: 10.0pt">25,352,305</span></font></p> </td> <td width="126" height="17" valign="top" style="width:94.4pt;border:none; padding:0in 1.5pt 0in 1.5pt;height:12.5pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-size: 10.0pt">1,986,448</span></font></p> </td> <td width="110" height="17" valign="top" style="width:1.15in;border:none; padding:0in 1.5pt 0in 1.5pt;height:12.5pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-size: 10.0pt">5,385,064</span></font></p> </td> <td width="118" height="17" valign="top" style="width:88.2pt;border:none; padding:0in 1.5pt 0in 1.5pt;height:12.5pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-size: 10.0pt">60,915,134</span></font></p> </td> </tr> <tr height="17" style="height:12.5pt"> <td height="17" valign="top" style="border:none;padding:0in 1.5pt 0in 1.5pt; height:12.5pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"> <font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p> </span></font></p> </td> <td height="17" valign="top" style="border:none;padding:0in 1.5pt 0in 1.5pt; height:12.5pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-size: 10.0pt">2000</span></font></p> </td> <td height="17" valign="top" style="border:none;padding:0in 1.5pt 0in 1.5pt; height:12.5pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-size: 10.0pt">28,832,527</span></font></p> </td> <td height="17" valign="top" style="border:none;padding:0in 1.5pt 0in 1.5pt; height:12.5pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-size: 10.0pt">25,708,524</span></font></p> </td> <td width="126" height="17" valign="top" style="width:94.4pt;border:none; padding:0in 1.5pt 0in 1.5pt;height:12.5pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-size: 10.0pt">1,748,768</span></font></p> </td> <td width="110" height="17" valign="top" style="width:1.15in;border:none; padding:0in 1.5pt 0in 1.5pt;height:12.5pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-size: 10.0pt">5,683,002</span></font></p> </td> <td width="118" height="17" valign="top" style="width:88.2pt;border:none; padding:0in 1.5pt 0in 1.5pt;height:12.5pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-size: 10.0pt">61,972,821</span></font></p> </td> </tr> <tr height="17" style="height:12.5pt"> <td height="17" valign="top" style="border:none;padding:0in 1.5pt 0in 1.5pt; height:12.5pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"> <font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p> </span></font></p> </td> <td height="17" valign="top" style="border:none;padding:0in 1.5pt 0in 1.5pt; height:12.5pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-size: 10.0pt">2001</span></font></p> </td> <td height="17" valign="top" style="border:none;padding:0in 1.5pt 0in 1.5pt; height:12.5pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-size: 10.0pt">29,535,640</span></font></p> </td> <td height="17" valign="top" style="border:none;padding:0in 1.5pt 0in 1.5pt; height:12.5pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-size: 10.0pt">25,564,825</span></font></p> </td> <td width="126" height="17" valign="top" style="width:94.4pt;border:none; padding:0in 1.5pt 0in 1.5pt;height:12.5pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-size: 10.0pt">1,886,569</span></font></p> </td> <td width="110" height="17" valign="top" style="width:1.15in;border:none; padding:0in 1.5pt 0in 1.5pt;height:12.5pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-size: 10.0pt">5,956,530</span></font></p> </td> <td width="118" height="17" valign="top" style="width:88.2pt;border:none; padding:0in 1.5pt 0in 1.5pt;height:12.5pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-size: 10.0pt">62,943,560</span></font></p> </td> </tr> <tr height="17" style="height:12.5pt"> <td height="17" valign="top" style="border:none;border-bottom:solid green 1.5pt; padding:0in 1.5pt 0in 1.5pt;height:12.5pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"> <font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p> </span></font></p> </td> <td height="17" valign="top" style="border:none;border-bottom:solid green 1.5pt; padding:0in 1.5pt 0in 1.5pt;height:12.5pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"> <font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p> </span></font></p> </td> <td height="17" valign="top" style="border:none;border-bottom:solid green 1.5pt; padding:0in 1.5pt 0in 1.5pt;height:12.5pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"> <font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p> </span></font></p> </td> <td height="17" valign="top" style="border:none;border-bottom:solid green 1.5pt; padding:0in 1.5pt 0in 1.5pt;height:12.5pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"> <font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p> </span></font></p> </td> <td width="126" height="17" valign="top" style="width:94.4pt;border:none; border-bottom:solid green 1.5pt;padding:0in 1.5pt 0in 1.5pt;height:12.5pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"> <font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p> </span></font></p> </td> <td width="110" height="17" valign="top" style="width:1.15in;border:none; border-bottom:solid green 1.5pt;padding:0in 1.5pt 0in 1.5pt;height:12.5pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"> <font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p> </span></font></p> </td> <td width="118" height="17" valign="top" style="width:88.2pt;border:none; border-bottom:solid green 1.5pt;padding:0in 1.5pt 0in 1.5pt;height:12.5pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"> <font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p> </span></font></p> </td> </tr> </table> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:2.0in"><u><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"> </span><o:p> </o:p> </font></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:2.0in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-size: 10.0pt">Yearly % Increase - Total Taxes</span></font></p> <table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="675" style="width:506.4pt; margin-left:.5in;border-collapse:collapse;border:none;mso-border-top-alt:solid green 1.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt:solid green 1.5pt;mso-padding-alt:0in 1.5pt 0in 1.5pt"> <tr height="17" style="height:12.5pt"> <td height="17" valign="top" style="border:none;border-top:solid green 1.5pt; padding:0in 1.5pt 0in 1.5pt;height:12.5pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-size: 10.0pt">From</span></font></p> </td> <td height="17" valign="top" style="border:none;border-top:solid green 1.5pt; padding:0in 1.5pt 0in 1.5pt;height:12.5pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-size: 10.0pt">To</span></font></p> </td> <td height="17" valign="top" style="border:none;border-top:solid green 1.5pt; padding:0in 1.5pt 0in 1.5pt;height:12.5pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-size: 10.0pt"> </span></font></p> </td> <td height="17" valign="top" style="border:none;border-top:solid green 1.5pt; padding:0in 1.5pt 0in 1.5pt;height:12.5pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-size: 10.0pt"> </span></font></p> </td> <td width="147" height="17" valign="top" style="width:110.2pt;border:none; border-top:solid green 1.5pt;padding:0in 1.5pt 0in 1.5pt;height:12.5pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-size: 10.0pt"> </span></font></p> </td> <td width="90" height="17" valign="top" style="width:67.2pt;border:none;border-top: solid green 1.5pt;padding:0in 1.5pt 0in 1.5pt;height:12.5pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-size: 10.0pt"> </span></font></p> </td> <td width="103" height="17" valign="top" style="width:77.6pt;border:none; border-top:solid green 1.5pt;padding:0in 1.5pt 0in 1.5pt;height:12.5pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-size: 10.0pt"> </span></font></p> </td> </tr> <tr height="17" style="height:12.5pt"> <td height="17" valign="top" style="border:none;padding:0in 1.5pt 0in 1.5pt; height:12.5pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-size: 10.0pt">1995</span></font></p> </td> <td height="17" valign="top" style="border:none;padding:0in 1.5pt 0in 1.5pt; height:12.5pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-size: 10.0pt">1996</span></font></p> </td> <td height="17" valign="top" style="border:none;padding:0in 1.5pt 0in 1.5pt; height:12.5pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-size: 10.0pt">2.8%</span></font></p> </td> <td height="17" valign="top" style="border:none;padding:0in 1.5pt 0in 1.5pt; height:12.5pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-size: 10.0pt">-0.1%</span></font></p> </td> <td width="147" height="17" valign="top" style="width:110.2pt;border:none; padding:0in 1.5pt 0in 1.5pt;height:12.5pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-size: 10.0pt">-2.9%</span></font></p> </td> <td width="90" height="17" valign="top" style="width:67.2pt;border:none;padding: 0in 1.5pt 0in 1.5pt;height:12.5pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-size: 10.0pt">2.9%</span></font></p> </td> <td width="103" height="17" valign="top" style="width:77.6pt;border:none; padding:0in 1.5pt 0in 1.5pt;height:12.5pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-size: 10.0pt">1.4%</span></font></p> </td> </tr> <tr height="17" style="height:12.5pt"> <td height="17" valign="top" style="border:none;padding:0in 1.5pt 0in 1.5pt; height:12.5pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-size: 10.0pt">1996</span></font></p> </td> <td height="17" valign="top" style="border:none;padding:0in 1.5pt 0in 1.5pt; height:12.5pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-size: 10.0pt">1997</span></font></p> </td> <td height="17" valign="top" style="border:none;padding:0in 1.5pt 0in 1.5pt; height:12.5pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-size: 10.0pt">1.5%</span></font></p> </td> <td height="17" valign="top" style="border:none;padding:0in 1.5pt 0in 1.5pt; height:12.5pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-size: 10.0pt">2.8%</span></font></p> </td> <td width="147" height="17" valign="top" style="width:110.2pt;border:none; padding:0in 1.5pt 0in 1.5pt;height:12.5pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-size: 10.0pt">-25.6%</span></font></p> </td> <td width="90" height="17" valign="top" style="width:67.2pt;border:none;padding: 0in 1.5pt 0in 1.5pt;height:12.5pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-size: 10.0pt">-7.8%</span></font></p> </td> <td width="103" height="17" valign="top" style="width:77.6pt;border:none; padding:0in 1.5pt 0in 1.5pt;height:12.5pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-size: 10.0pt">-0.1%</span></font></p> </td> </tr> <tr height="17" style="height:12.5pt"> <td height="17" valign="top" style="border:none;padding:0in 1.5pt 0in 1.5pt; height:12.5pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-size: 10.0pt">1997</span></font></p> </td> <td height="17" valign="top" style="border:none;padding:0in 1.5pt 0in 1.5pt; height:12.5pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-size: 10.0pt">1998</span></font></p> </td> <td height="17" valign="top" style="border:none;padding:0in 1.5pt 0in 1.5pt; height:12.5pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-size: 10.0pt">8.0%</span></font></p> </td> <td height="17" valign="top" style="border:none;padding:0in 1.5pt 0in 1.5pt; height:12.5pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-size: 10.0pt">3.0%</span></font></p> </td> <td width="147" height="17" valign="top" style="width:110.2pt;border:none; padding:0in 1.5pt 0in 1.5pt;height:12.5pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-size: 10.0pt">-13.4%</span></font></p> </td> <td width="90" height="17" valign="top" style="width:67.2pt;border:none;padding: 0in 1.5pt 0in 1.5pt;height:12.5pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-size: 10.0pt">4.7%</span></font></p> </td> <td width="103" height="17" valign="top" style="width:77.6pt;border:none; padding:0in 1.5pt 0in 1.5pt;height:12.5pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-size: 10.0pt">4.8%</span></font></p> </td> </tr> <tr height="17" style="height:12.5pt"> <td height="17" valign="top" style="border:none;padding:0in 1.5pt 0in 1.5pt; height:12.5pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-size: 10.0pt">1998</span></font></p> </td> <td height="17" valign="top" style="border:none;padding:0in 1.5pt 0in 1.5pt; height:12.5pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-size: 10.0pt">1999</span></font></p> </td> <td height="17" valign="top" style="border:none;padding:0in 1.5pt 0in 1.5pt; height:12.5pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-size: 10.0pt">2.0%</span></font></p> </td> <td height="17" valign="top" style="border:none;padding:0in 1.5pt 0in 1.5pt; height:12.5pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-size: 10.0pt">2.3%</span></font></p> </td> <td width="147" height="17" valign="top" style="width:110.2pt;border:none; padding:0in 1.5pt 0in 1.5pt;height:12.5pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-size: 10.0pt">17.0%</span></font></p> </td> <td width="90" height="17" valign="top" style="width:67.2pt;border:none;padding: 0in 1.5pt 0in 1.5pt;height:12.5pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-size: 10.0pt">0.6%</span></font></p> </td> <td width="103" height="17" valign="top" style="width:77.6pt;border:none; padding:0in 1.5pt 0in 1.5pt;height:12.5pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-size: 10.0pt">2.4%</span></font></p> </td> </tr> <tr height="17" style="height:12.5pt"> <td height="17" valign="top" style="border:none;padding:0in 1.5pt 0in 1.5pt; height:12.5pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-size: 10.0pt">1999</span></font></p> </td> <td height="17" valign="top" style="border:none;padding:0in 1.5pt 0in 1.5pt; height:12.5pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-size: 10.0pt">2000</span></font></p> </td> <td height="17" valign="top" style="border:none;padding:0in 1.5pt 0in 1.5pt; height:12.5pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-size: 10.0pt">2.3%</span></font></p> </td> <td height="17" valign="top" style="border:none;padding:0in 1.5pt 0in 1.5pt; height:12.5pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-size: 10.0pt">1.4%</span></font></p> </td> <td width="147" height="17" valign="top" style="width:110.2pt;border:none; padding:0in 1.5pt 0in 1.5pt;height:12.5pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-size: 10.0pt">-12.0%</span></font></p> </td> <td width="90" height="17" valign="top" style="width:67.2pt;border:none;padding: 0in 1.5pt 0in 1.5pt;height:12.5pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-size: 10.0pt">5.5%</span></font></p> </td> <td width="103" height="17" valign="top" style="width:77.6pt;border:none; padding:0in 1.5pt 0in 1.5pt;height:12.5pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-size: 10.0pt">1.7%</span></font></p> </td> </tr> <tr height="17" style="height:12.5pt"> <td height="17" valign="top" style="border:none;padding:0in 1.5pt 0in 1.5pt; height:12.5pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-size: 10.0pt">2000</span></font></p> </td> <td height="17" valign="top" style="border:none;padding:0in 1.5pt 0in 1.5pt; height:12.5pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-size: 10.0pt">2001</span></font></p> </td> <td height="17" valign="top" style="border:none;padding:0in 1.5pt 0in 1.5pt; height:12.5pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-size: 10.0pt">2.4%</span></font></p> </td> <td height="17" valign="top" style="border:none;padding:0in 1.5pt 0in 1.5pt; height:12.5pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-size: 10.0pt">-0.6%</span></font></p> </td> <td width="147" height="17" valign="top" style="width:110.2pt;border:none; padding:0in 1.5pt 0in 1.5pt;height:12.5pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-size: 10.0pt">7.9%</span></font></p> </td> <td width="90" height="17" valign="top" style="width:67.2pt;border:none;padding: 0in 1.5pt 0in 1.5pt;height:12.5pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-size: 10.0pt">4.8%</span></font></p> </td> <td width="103" height="17" valign="top" style="width:77.6pt;border:none; padding:0in 1.5pt 0in 1.5pt;height:12.5pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-size: 10.0pt">1.6%</span></font></p> </td> </tr> <tr height="17" style="height:12.5pt"> <td colspan="2" height="17" valign="top" style="border:none;border-bottom:solid green 1.5pt; padding:0in 1.5pt 0in 1.5pt;height:12.5pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-size: 10.0pt">6 year total</span></font></p> </td> <td height="17" valign="top" style="border:none;border-bottom:solid green 1.5pt; padding:0in 1.5pt 0in 1.5pt;height:12.5pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-size: 10.0pt">20.4%</span></font></p> </td> <td height="17" valign="top" style="border:none;border-bottom:solid green 1.5pt; padding:0in 1.5pt 0in 1.5pt;height:12.5pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-size: 10.0pt">9.2%</span></font></p> </td> <td width="147" height="17" valign="top" style="width:110.2pt;border:none; border-bottom:solid green 1.5pt;padding:0in 1.5pt 0in 1.5pt;height:12.5pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-size: 10.0pt">-30.5%</span></font></p> </td> <td width="90" height="17" valign="top" style="width:67.2pt;border:none;border-bottom: solid green 1.5pt;padding:0in 1.5pt 0in 1.5pt;height:12.5pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-size: 10.0pt">10.6%</span></font></p> </td> <td width="103" height="17" valign="top" style="width:77.6pt;border:none; border-bottom:solid green 1.5pt;padding:0in 1.5pt 0in 1.5pt;height:12.5pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-size: 10.0pt">12.3%</span></font></p> </td> </tr> </table> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"> </span><o:p> </o:p> </font></p> <h3 style="margin-left:1.5in"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; font-size: 10.0pt; font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">We thank Paul Reynault for this analysis.<o:p> </o:p> </span></font></i></b></h3> <h2 style="margin-left:1.0in">  <o:p> </o:p> </h2> <h1 style="margin-left:1.0in"> Special Education</h1> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left:1.0in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">With the support of the state political parties and every professional educational association, an agreement was reached for a bill to pass with no immediate fiscal impact.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>The amended version of the bill delays the implementation of its provisions by one fiscal year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>School districts would begin to receive additional aid during the 2003-04 school year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>During the prescribed three-year phase-in period, a district will receive 60 percent of any special education costs in excess of $40,000 per pupil and up to $60,000; 70 percent of any costs in excess of $60,000 and up to $80,000; and 80 percent of any costs in excess of $80,000.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">   </span>We wish that this bill could have been implemented this year because the cost of special education in our district last year was about $10 million.</span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"> </span><o:p> </o:p> </font></p> <h2 style="margin-left:1.0in">  <o:p> </o:p> </h2> <h1 style="margin-left:1.0in"> Bergen County Academies @ Englewood<font size="3"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p> </span></font></h1> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left:1.0in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">In 1992, a new concept for education materialized in Bergen County with the initiative of magnet schools of choice at the Bergen County Academies in Hackensack under the direction of Dr. Grieco.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Since that time, the NJ State Department of Education has heralded this effort by designating it a Star School and awarding it eight Best Practice distinctions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Since its first graduating class in 1996, <b><span style="font-weight: bold">Academy alumni have been accepted into our nation’s most prestigious colleges, including every school in the Ivy League.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span></span></b>Thus, the reputation of the Bergen County Academies extends beyond the state and they are currently recognized nationally as the premier educational option for county residents.</span></font></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left:1.0in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Because they are at facility capacity in Hackensack and, therefore, cannot accept all of the qualified applicants who wish to attend an Academy program, they have extended these programs to their Teterboro campus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>And, beginning September 2002, in a unique partnership with the Englewood Board of Education, Bergen County Technical School leaders enthusiastically bring the following magnet Academy programs to Englewood:</span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo5; tab-stops:list 1.0in right 274.85pt"><font size="2" face="Symbol"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">·<font size="1" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">         </span></font></span></font><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;font-weight:bold">Pre-engineering<o:p> </o:p> </span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo5; tab-stops:list 1.0in right 274.85pt"><font size="2" face="Symbol"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">·<font size="1" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">          </span></font></span></font><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;font-weight:bold">Information Systems<o:p> </o:p> </span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo5; tab-stops:list 1.0in right 274.85pt"><font size="2" face="Symbol"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">·<font size="1" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">          </span></font></span></font><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;font-weight:bold">Finance<o:p> </o:p> </span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo5; tab-stops:list 1.0in right 274.85pt"><font size="2" face="Symbol"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">·<font size="1" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">            </span></font></span></font><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;font-weight:bold">Law and Public Safety<o:p> </o:p> </span></b></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left:1.0in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"> <o:p> </o:p> </span></font></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left:1.0in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">The Englewood Academies will have the same assets that distinguish the Bergen County Academy programs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Hallmarks of the Academies include a sophisticated, state-of-the-art technology infrastructure, a highly credentialed teaching staff, small classes and personalized learning, and extensive corporate partnerships.</span></font></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left:1.0in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Dr. Grieco predicted that the Academies @ Englewood would be “the envy of Bergen County.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>(Source: Press Journal)</span></font></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left:1.0in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">The first open house was Thursday, January 31<sup>st</sup> at King Hall, a separate building from the high school on a magnificent 48-acre campus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Two members of the EHOA Board attended with their children, one 8<sup>th</sup> grade student and one 7<sup>th</sup> grade student.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>They joined 300 people for the presentations in the auditorium.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Another 200 people attended the open house on February 12.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>It was wonderful to see the cultural mixture of students and parents.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>There were families from River Vale, Cresskill, Closter, Tenafly, Haworth, Dumont, Hackensack, Teaneck, Upper Saddle River -- we could almost name every town in the county.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Why?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Because the Bergen Academies have a superb national reputation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>The overall passing rates for the Bergen Academies in the High School Proficiency Tests was nearly 100%.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>In contrast, only a little more than half of Englewood’s Dwight Morrow’s students pass the tests.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>(Source: Press Journal February 14, 2002.)</span></font></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left:1.0in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">The academies are publicly funded.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Each district pays the tuition of their students.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Currently we have about 145 students from Englewood attending the Bergen County Academies.</span></font></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left:1.0in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">The academies are a fabulous opportunity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Students receive a first class education in classes with typically only 15 students.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>All of the teachers have doctorates or master degrees.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>The academies have high academic standards and demand excellent behavior from their students.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Parents of 8<sup>th</sup> grade students should encourage their children to apply.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Teachers’ recommendations, good grades from the past two years, and passing a two-hour test are the requirements for admission.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>The students also are required to write an essay.</span></font></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left:1.0in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Fifty-four spots are reserved for students who live in Englewood and Englewood Cliffs, and another fifty-four students will be filled from other towns in Bergen County.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Next year 10<sup>th</sup> grade will be added to the academies and during the following two years, the academies will grow to the 12<sup>th</sup> grade.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Other academies are also planned for the Englewood campus, including an Academy of Performing Arts.</span></font></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left:1.0in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “What lies before us and what lies behind us are tiny compared to what lies within us.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Intelligence is a gift.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>No amount of money in the world can buy it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>We encourage parents of 8<sup>th</sup> graders to seriously consider applying to the Academies @ Englewood.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>For further information please call 201-833-6160 or 6162 or email <a href="mailto:ADM@epsd.echalk.com"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">ADM@epsd.echalk.com</span></a>.</span></font></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left:1.0in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">All applications must be in by March 25, 2002.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>There are two dates for the test, Saturday, April 6, 2002 and Sunday, April 7, 2002.</span></font></p> <h2 style="margin-left:1.0in">  <o:p>  </h2> <h2 style="margin-left:1.0in"> HELLO DR. GRIECO!</h2> <h1 style="margin-left:1.0in"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-size: 10.0pt">Public School Update</span></font></b></h1> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left:1.0in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">After half a dozen Superintendents, about the same number of Business Administrators and a referendum that brought an elected school board to Englewood, finally our district has the chance of a lifetime.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Dr. John Grieco, Superintendent of the Bergen County Technical Schools (which includes the nationally acclaimed Bergen Academies), is the Interim Superintendent of Englewood Public Schools.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Hopefully, as we are going to print, he will be voted as Superintendent by our Board of Education.</span></font></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left:1.0in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">We are confident that Dr. Grieco and his team will bring accountability, discipline and order to our district.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Also, we believe that under his leadership the re-registration project will be done properly and by outside personnel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Only the students of Englewood deserve our tax educational dollars.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Four years ago we began an effort to bring awareness regarding the problem of having non-resident students attending our school district for free.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>They contribute to overcrowding in our schools, and steal our teachers’ time and classroom space.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>This is a violation of the educational rights of our own Englewood Students.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>They must receive a thorough and efficient education by law.</span></font></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left:1.0in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Fort Lee, North Bergen, Leonia and Clifton and Montclair are among the many school districts that have hired off duty or retired policemen and private investigators to find non-resident students.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>From 1992 to the present the school district of Clifton, (which is sandwiched between Paterson and Passaic districts) established a hotline and a bounty for tips about illegal students.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>About 60 non-resident students were found within a few months.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>These measures should be used in our school district for the protection of the educational rights for our students, as well as the educational dollars of the taxpayers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>The misuse of taxpayers funds is an outrage and unlawful.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Other districts thoroughly investigate these abuses.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>The Englewood Public School district should follow these policies, which have been successful in other school districts.</span></font></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left:1.0in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">The Board of Education must put in place a firm central control for registration of new students and demand all documents required by law from the parents or legal guardian.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>All current student files must be carefully checked for missing documentation, and when irregularities are found, home visits should occur.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>This is the only way our public schools can restore credibility.</span></font></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold">It is all about trust.</span></font></b></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left:1.0in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">We believe Dr. Grieco will place this issue on the top of his very long list of priorities.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>As homeowners and taxpayers we pay $30 million for public education, and poor test scores show us over and over that our money makes no difference.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>It is time to clean house.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>It is time to get on with education.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>It is time to stop giving money to lawyers and place it in the classrooms.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>We are a small district, and there is no reason to continue the status quo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>There are very bright students today in our schools, and sadly it does not show in the test scores.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>This is why we consider this sea change in the leadership kind of miraculous.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></span></font></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left:1.0in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Dr. Grieco, his team, and our elected Board of Education are aware that we are in a deep recession and will look into the fact that the Board of Education is the wealthiest landowner in Englewood.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>There is a limit on how much money homeowners can pay.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Home values increase when the schools provide quality education to their students.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Our district test scores have been at the bottom of the barrel for years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>And, even for a man like Dr. Grieco and his team, this is an enormous challenge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>We sincerely believe that under his leadership, our school district will shine and make us proud.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>We must be patient and have faith in the successfully proven expertise of Dr. John Grieco.</span></font></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left:1.0in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Thus far, the Board has passed several resolutions on Dr. Grieco’s recommendation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>They accepted the resignations of several highly paid personnel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>James Lerman, who was hired by the former Superintendent Dr. Baynes at a salary of 112,500 per annum as Assistant Superintendent resigned.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Dr. Lynn Jemmott, who received a salary of about $104,000 per annum, also resigned.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Business Administrator Robert Brown, who received a salary of about $104,500, resigned as well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Also the services of the Hillier Group, (one of the most expensive architectural engineer firm in the tri-state area) hired by Mayor Fader and the former Superintendent, will no longer continue. We hope there will be other resignations of ineffective personnel, including the numerous expensive consultants on the payroll.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Accountability is the motto of Dr. Grieco team.</span></font></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left:1.0in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Articles in the Bergen Record by journalist Doug Crause, an editorial in its Sunday edition, and a long article in the Sunday New York Times by journalist Maria Newman affirmed the EHOA hopes for our district.</span></font></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left:1.0in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">The amount of the new budget for the public schools is unknown as we are going to print.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Everything is on hold until Governor James McGreevey decides how much state aid school districts will receive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>We hope Governor McGreevey will provide our school district with the entire state aide package requested by our School Board.</span></font></p> <h2 style="margin-left:1.0in">  <o:p> </o:p> </h2> <h1 style="margin-left:1.0in"> Where Will The Money Come From?</h1> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left:1.0in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">After the oral arguments of October 21, 2001 in front of the State Supreme Court in Trenton (where Mr. Freeman, the attorney for the NAACP did a phenomenal job on behalf of the Englewood Public High School and his services were pro bono) the Supreme Court justices ruled that the Department of Education has the ultimate responsibility resolving the problems that face Dwight Morrow High School.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>The Justices were in favor of Bergen County Academies extending their programs to Englewood.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>We believe that Dr. John Grieco will be visiting Commissioner of Education William Librera shortly to negotiate the funding and we expect that the majority of the funding for the Academies will come from the State Department of Education.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Bergen County will provide $1,000,000 once the lawsuits against Englewood Cliffs and Tenafly are dropped and the court order that the students of Englewood and Englewood Cliffs are bound by is lifted.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></span></font></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left:1.0in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">We thank first ward Councilman Douglas Bern for his efforts as a County Freeholder on behalf of the expansion of the prestigious Bergen County Academies to Englewood.</span></font></p> <h2 style="margin-left:1.0in">  <o:p> </o:p> </h2> <h1 style="margin-left:1.0in"> Delay On School Elections<font size="3"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p> </span></font></h1> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left:1.0in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">School board elections in the state might be delayed for weeks under a bill that cleared an Assembly committee Monday.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>School board officials who lobbied for the delay say they need more time to put their budgets together because Governor McGreevey wants to postpone his budget address until March 26<sup>th</sup>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>School board elections are normally held on the third Tuesday in April.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>This year they would be held on April 16<sup>th</sup>, less than three weeks after districts will be notified about the amount of state aid they will be receiving for the 2003 fiscal year.</span></font></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left:1.0in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Usually, school districts need at least two months between the time school aid figures are announced and local school board elections are held.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>The two-month period would provide sufficient time for developing absentee and sample ballots, advertising the school board elections, and holding a mandatory public hearing.</span></font></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left:1.0in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">The bill passed by the Assembly Education Committee does not set a date for the elections, but gives the state education commissioner William Librero the authority to extend the date.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>The bill now goes to the full Assembly for consideration.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><b><span style="font-weight:bold">We will keep you informed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>The right to vote is precious and it is up to you to use it.</span></b></span></font></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left:1.0in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">If you are going to be away, or your working hours do not permit you to vote, please request an absentee ballot by calling the Bergen County Board of Elections at 201-336-7020, 336-6225 or 336-6100.</span></font></p> <h2 style="margin-left:1.0in">  <o:p> </o:p> </h2> <h1 style="margin-left:1.0in"> Illegal Rooming Houses</h1> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left:1.0in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">There are many illegal rooming houses in Englewood.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Recently, the city closed illegal rooming houses located in Central Avenue, Tenafly Road and Twisby Place.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Another possible illegal rooming house located on St. Nicholas Avenue is under surveillance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Illegal rooming houses are firetraps, and the occupants steal our services (police, fire, DPW and ambulance).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Also, the occupants may be sending students to our public schools where the average cost per student is about $16,400.</span></font></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left:1.0in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">We encourage our members to watch for an unusual number of cars parked in driveways, and an unusual number of garbage cans placed on the sidewalk.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Contact the EHOA office with any information.</span></font></p> <h2 style="margin-left:1.0in">  <o:p> </o:p> </h2> <h1 style="margin-left:1.0in"> Design Review</h1> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left:1.0in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">The EHOA believes in the preservation of our residential neighborhoods.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>After extensive research of communities that have implemented a <i><span style="font-style:italic">design review process</span></i>, we have compiled a list of suitable guidelines which could be used for the creation of a <i><span style="font-style:italic">design review committee</span></i> in Englewood.</span></font></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left:1.0in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Many of the following guidelines are being used in Livermore, California.</span></font></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left:1.0in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">The Design Review Committee consists of five members serving two-year terms.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Each member should have demonstrated ability in the area of design in the virtue of vocation, talent and interests in architectural and <b><span style="font-weight: bold">landscaping design</span></b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>At least three members of the committee should have professional training and experience in a related design discipline.</span></font></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left:1.0in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Duties and responsibilities:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>The Design Review Committee develops design standards to serve as guidelines to the architect of the owner of a property that is going to be built or extensively added on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>The committee acts in an advisory capacity to the city council, the planning commission and city staff.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>The committee reviews architectural plans before a building permit is given.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Three registered design professionals, (architects and landscaping architects) need <b><span style="font-weight:bold">not</span></b> be residents of the city.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>The design review process is intended to promote quality architectural design, site planning and landscape development.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Projects recommended by the Design Review Committee must meet specific standard conditions such as architectural screening of all mechanical equipment from view.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Landscaping design is a primary emphasis of the committee.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Building and site development plans, once recommended by the committee, are reviewed and approved by the planning staff prior to the issuance of a building permit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></span></font></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left:1.0in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">The Design Review Committee does not infringe on property rights.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Nor, does it have the power to become the “taste police”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>The architect retained by the homeowner takes into serious consideration the recommendations of the committee.</span></font></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left:1.0in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">The committee landscape architects encourage buffers of evergreens on the property boundary lines, to insure privacy to the homeowner.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Sometimes, the Design Review Committee, for the protection of the homeowner’s children, emphasizes lush screenings of front yards.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>The safety of young children is of high importance to the committee.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></span></font></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left:1.0in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">This type of design review could be most helpful to homeowners planning to do extensive renovations or building new homes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>The guidance of the Design Review Committee should be offered to homeowners in the entire city.</span></font></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left:1.0in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">What is your opinion?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Please contact the EHOA office and let us know.</span></font></p> <h2 style="margin-left:1.0in">  <o:p> </o:p> </h2> <h1 style="margin-left:1.0in"> Preliminary Research on Health Departments in Bergen County</h1> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left:1.0in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Englewood has a multicultural population of 26,203 people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>The proposed budget for the health department is about $635,000 or over $24 per resident.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>How does this compare to similar towns in Bergen County?</span></font></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left:1.0in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">As reported earlier, Bergenfield has a multicultural population slightly larger than Englewood, yet their health department budget in 2001 was approximately half of Englewood’s, about $322,000 including salaries.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><i><span style="font-style: italic">Bergenfield’s per capita cost for their health department is about $12 per resident!</span></i></span></font></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left:1.0in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Teaneck has a multicultural population of 39,260 people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Their health department has eight full-time employees and has a 2002 budget of $605,861 including salaries.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Teaneck serves a population 50% <i><span style="font-style:italic">more</span></i> than Englewood with a proposed budget that is <i><span style="font-style:italic">less</span></i> than Englewood’s.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><i><span style="font-style: italic">Teaneck’s per capita cost for their health department is about $15 per resident!</span></i></span></font></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left:1.0in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Elmwood Park has a multicultural population of 18,925 people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Their health department has three full-time and four part-time employees with a proposed budget under $200,000.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><i><span style="font-style: italic">Elmwood Park’s per capita cost for their health department is about $11, less than half of Englewood’s!</span></i></span></font></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left:1.0in"> <img width="357" height="359" src="images/index.2.gif" align="right" hspace="12" v:shapes="_x0000_s1027"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><b><span style="font-weight:bold">How do they do it?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>How do other towns keep costs down?<o:p> </o:p> </span></b></span></font></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold">Part of the answer is by controlling salaries.</span></font></b></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left:1.0in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Englewood’s health officer (director) has a salary of $115,000, 88% more than the $61,000 salary that Elmwood Park’s health officer receives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Elmwood Park’s health officer is also well qualified, holding degrees in public administration, public health and having 24 years of experience.</span></font></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left:1.0in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Bergenfield’s health officer receives a salary of about $66,000.</span></font></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold">The other part of the answer is by sharing and/or contracting services</span></font></b>.</p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left:1.0in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Elmwood Park<b><span style="font-weight:bold"> </span></b>contracts out the nurse supervisor through HARP.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>They also have contracts with mid Bergen Regional Health Commission.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>The health officer shares her time with the Ridgefield Park Health Department.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>(Source Ms. Ricci)</span></font></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left:1.0in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Teaneck is entering their tenth year of contracting with Holy Name Hospital for Public Health Nursing Services.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>The program has been a major success.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>The Teaneck Child Health Conference is the only one in the County to provide evening hours to participants to accommodate working parents.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Contract services also include hypertension risk assessment clinics, blood pressure and health counseling at the Senior Services Center, and investigation of outbreaks of communicable diseases.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>(Source: Teaneck’s 2001 Manager Report regarding Health Department activities)</span></font></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left:1.0in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">In our next issue we hope to publish more information about the health services offered in other municipalities in the County.</span></font></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left:1.0in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">The state is seeking to enact radical changes in the structure of local health departments.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>We learned through <i><span style="font-style:italic">The Record</span></i> that the state is seriously considering new rules that will give more money and authority to county and regional health departments, so they can provide the timely and sophisticated computer tracking of disease trends that is beyond the reach of most towns.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">   </span>The counties could hire epidemiologists, computer specialists, and health planners to help them quickly detect and respond to outbreaks.</span></font></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left:1.0in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">The trend is to achieve a seamless national, state and local public health system.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>The plan calls for the county to hire epidemiologists and other staff members who could detect disease outbreaks by tracking trends in hospital admissions, school absences, and other records.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><b><span style="font-weight:bold">Seven</span></b> <b><span style="font-weight:bold">of the 14 health officers who represent Bergen County’s 70 towns voted against a plan detailing how the new rules would work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span></span></b>Some of the opponents are primarily concerned about the County usurping local control.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Others oppose it because they fear that the new plan will cost taxpayers money.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Are these seven Bergen county health officials concerned about protecting taxpayers’ money, or are they concerned about losing their local power?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Supporters of the plan also want to know about costs.</span></font></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left:1.0in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Englewood’s Health Officer (Director) is one of the most vocal critics of the proposed new legislation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>In these times of terrorism we must seriously consider the threat of bio-terrorism.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>We cannot afford tunnel vision.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Unifying resources and data could very well be the answer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Bergen County had estimated last year that each town might have to pay about $2 per resident per year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Some estimates are that it could cost up to $2,000,000 to cover the salaries of the epidemiologists and other staff to support the additional services.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>The County Health Director seems sure that the cost will probably come at no more than $1,000,000 a year, and that at least some portion should be covered by federal grants for fighting bio-terrorism.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>The Bergen County health director’s salary is under $100,000 (source Bergen County Health Director Mr. Mark Guarino, M.P.H., H.O.).</span></font></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left:1.0in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">It is good for municipal governments to have a clear picture of how much this new trend will cost.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>But at the same time can they truly put a price on safety?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Can the state and federal government short change taxpayers on issues related to their safety?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></span></font></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in; margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:widow-orphan lines-together"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">What is your opinion?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Please write, fax or email the EHOA.</span></font></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in; margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:widow-orphan lines-together"><font size="1" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt"><br> </span></font>Population data source: 2000 census</p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left:1.0in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"> <o:p> </o:p> </span></font></p> <h2 style="margin-left:1.0in">  <o:p> </o:p> </h2> <h2 style="margin-left:1.0in"> ENGLEWOOD’S ORDINANCES</h2> <h1 style="margin-left:1.0in"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-size: 10.0pt">Tree Ordinance</span></font></b></h1> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left:1.0in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">There are many magnificent old trees on private properties throughout our residential neighborhoods.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>These trees are jewels and irreplaceable, giving a stately look to front and backyards.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>In addition, the trees bring oxygen, privacy, shade and beauty.</span></font></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left:1.0in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Swimming pool lovers could take note of the latest trend on pool design and location by well-known landscape architects like Randolph Marshall.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Mr. Marshall, whose long client list includes designer Ralph Lauren, favors designing pools in shaded areas and tries to avoid cutting trees down.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>He creates pools surrounded by lush vegetation to increase privacy, forming a natural looking setting that has the appearance of a pond.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>If you have old trees in your backyard and you are planning a pool, consider asking your landscape architect or engineer to show you a drawing that would avoid cutting down trees.</span></font></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left:1.0in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Lately, many homeowners in Westchester, Connecticut and California have chosen partially shaded locations for their pools.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>It is no longer fashionable, nor was it <i><span style="font-style:italic">ever</span></i> healthy, to bake our skin for hours under a blazing sun.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>In the late seventies Randolph Marshall designed two swimming pools in Englewood.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>One is located in a partially shaded area.</span></font></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left:1.0in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">The Englewood Tree Ordinance is available in the members’ resource area.</span></font></p> <h2 style="margin-left:1.0in">  <o:p> </o:p> </h2> <h1 style="margin-left:1.0in"> Water Conservation Alert!</h1> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left:1.0in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">We are in the midst of a mild winter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Since we have received very little precipitation in the last few months, it will be wise to conserve as much water as possible.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Avoid filling up Jacuzzis and bathtubs, as well as taking long showers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Otherwise, during the spring and summer, we may find ourselves with a severe shortage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Your cooperation will be most appreciated.</span></font></p>  <p style='margin-left:35.25pt'><span style='font-family:Arial'><a href="file:///C|/Membership_m.htm"><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration: none;text-underline:none'> </span></a><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p style='margin-left:35.25pt'><span style='font-family:Arial'><a href="file:///C|/Membership_m.htm"><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration: none;text-underline:none'> </span></a><span class=MsoHyperlink><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> </div> 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