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There were two new faces on Voorhees Township Committee this year with Democratic committeeman Jason Ravitz and Committeewoman Michelle Nocito who were sworn in on Jan. 4 after winning election to committee the previous November.
Ravitz served as the vice president of retail operations for the Ravitz Family Markets, and Nocito served as a financial advisor with Ameriprise Financial.
Upon being sworn in, both of the newly elected committee members thanked their friends, family and the people of Voorhees for whom they would begin to serve.
“I promise that when I’m done doing this that I will leave Voorhees a better town than today, so thank you,” Ravitz said at the township’s 2016 reorganization meeting.
“At the end of the day, like Jason said, hopefully we leave this place better for our children and better for the next generations that it is now,” Nocito said at the meeting.
During the reorganization meeting Ravitz was also sworn in as the deputy mayor for the township, Michael Mignogna was once again nominated and sworn in as the township’s mayor.
Municipal Taxes increase slightly in 2016
Voorhees residents with an average assessed home valued at $256,188 saw a slight tax increase in 2016, with the Voorhees Township Committee adopting a 2016 municipal budget with a 2.4-cent increase per every $100 of assessed property value.
The average assessed home valued at $256,188 was set to pay about $61 more in municipal taxes per year.
Upon passage of the budget, Voorhees Township administrator Larry Spellman said a major initiative that came from the increase in the municipal tax levy was the funding of an additional police presence for the township’s school district.
“There will now be a police officer in each of our elementary schools all day long,” Spellman said at the time.
Other notable budget items for 2016 included repaving work related to the year’s road program and installation of turf fields at the township soccer complex.
