Tuckerton approved its $4.9 million 2020 budget despite a number of dissenting opinions from some residents of Tuckerton Beach who decried salary increases for Business Administer Jenny Gleghorn and CFO Garrett Loesch and the promotion of two police officers to sergeant. The budget includes a 2.2-cent increase to the tax levy that for an average home, worth $215,000, would mean an additional $57 a year.

But the voices raised in protest were homeowners with above-average homes in the increasingly upscale location of…