The first piece of business at the May 12 Little Egg Harbor Township Committee meeting was to introduce the 2022 municipal budget, which has total general appropriations of near $26.3 million. The amount to be raised by taxation to support the budget will be $19.9 million.

“The majority of that (tax increase) is because last year’s budget was balanced with $364,000 worth of CARES Act funds, which we don’t have again this year,” explained Township Administrator Rodney Haines.