Krystal Knapp wrote a front-page article for Princeton Echo’s September edition, “Battle lines drawn on consolidation: Pro and con groups advocating for and against November referendum”. See full article, left column front page.
Boro/Township Maps
Documents
- Consolidation Ballot Question
- Commission Baseline Report: Municipal Services and Financial Overview, Jan 2011
- Commission Options Report: Analysis of Consolidation Options and Impacts, May 2011
- Full Final Report, Princeton Consolidation and Shared Services Commission, June 22, 2011
- DCA: Fiscal Aspects of Consolidation Princeton Township and Princeton Borough, June 2011
- Summary Consolidation Report, July 2011
- Summary of Residential Tax and Non-Tax Impacts from Consolidation
- Wendell Cox, Demographia, Government Efficiency: The Case for Local Control, May 2008
- LUARCC, “A Quest for Efficiency in Local Governance”, March 2009
- LUARCC Report, Literature Review and Analysis Related to Municipal Government Consolidation, May 2009
- Angrisani and Blair consolidation minority report 1996 — same issues!
Police Speak Out
Residents Speak Out
- Teitelbaum-Lunn on Borough voter minority, 5-4-11
- K. Warren on timing of final rec, 7-19-11
- R. Warren on Commission bias, 10-12-2011
- K. Warren on transition costs, 11.1.11
- Saltzman on costs of consolidation, 9-18-11
- Teitelbaum on reasons consolidation commission was wrong, 10-26-2011
- Teitelbaum on we are two, 10.20.11
- Teitelbaum on little savings, big disadvantages, 7.27.11
- Patterson on political control of Boro, 10.29.11
- Palin and Siderman on high-density affordable housing, 11.1.11
- Nielsen on doomed Boro representation on Council and Boards, 9-26-11
- Nielsen on consolidation savings the real myth, 10.31.11
- Moran on militant animals and Boroughness, 8-10-2011
- King on Boro and Twp "punching weight" and "manning up", 10-12-2011
- Levine urges rejection of consolidation, 10-26-2011
- Merrill on Yes for jobs, 10-26-2011
- Lunn on no killer app, 9.16.11
- H. Frank on loss of voter voice, 8-10-11
- W. Frank on Boro/Twshp dichotomy works, 10-19-2011
- Goldfarb on entire town better without consolidation, 10.24.11
- Koontz on Boro and Township can reduce budgets on own, 11-4-2011
- Fields on powerless advisory boards, 9-24-11
- Firestone on the Borough is different, 10-27-2011
- H. Frank on living with boundaries, 9.16.11
- H. Frank on who are Princetonians, 10.3.11
- Blair on no tax relief with consolidation, 1-13-10
- Dodge on transition costs 10-4-11
- Assmus on consolidation is the worst option, 10-19-2011
- Arons on Two Voices, 11-1-2011
- Assmus on higher taxes and fewer services, 11.6.11