The Long Beach Township Board of Commissioners has introduced the 2022 municipal budget, which sees the tax rate go from .195 per $100 of assessed valuation last year to .199 this year, an increase of four-tenths of a penny. The average assessed home – $1,245,379.71 in the township – will see an increase of $49.82.

As Commissioner Joseph Lattanzi explained at the board’s meeting last Monday, total general appropriations come in at $30,493,000, with the local tax for municipal purposes…