Long Beach Township’s 2019 budget, introduced at the last Board of Commissioners meeting, includes a general tax rate increase of four-tenths of a cent. For an average homeowner in the municipality with a home valued at $940,000, this translates to a tax increase of approximately $37.

The commissioners will hold a budget hearing at their May 6 meeting, and hope to adopt the spending plan that day after answering any questions from residents.

Commissioner Joseph Lattanzi, who oversees finance in the municipality, offered up the budget preliminaries at the…