Ask Your Freeholders: The County Budget

Got a problem and need an answer from Camden County government? We’ve got your solution. 

Ask Your Freeholder is a weekly feature from Haddonfield Patch in which you get to ask questions and get them answered here every week by the Board of Chosen Freeholders of Camden County—the county's highest body of elected officials.

Just send your questions to bill.duhart@patch.com or ask it in our comment box below the story and we’ll take the first three every week and get one of the seven freeholders to personally answer your question for this column.

Here's this week's question from Haddonfield Patch:

"Now that Camden County's 2011 budget has been officially introduced, can the county explain specifically why the proposed budget isn't posted on the county's website so that residents can see how the freeholders intend to spend taxpayer dollars? Also, in March, Freeholder Director Cappelli said the county would post a PowerPoint presentation about the budget on the county website. Has the presentation been posted, and if so, where can it be found?"

Answer from Freeholder Director Louis Cappelli Jr. :

Camden County will post its approved budget after the vote at the June freeholder meeting, scheduled for Thursday, June 16 in Chesilhurst. The complete budget is posted every year, with detail by department. We will also post an explanation of the budget’s main areas at that time.