A big part of the problem is the entire Mayor and Council consists of 4 retired Lodi employees and one current County employee- where their jobs and promotions were based on dirty Lodi politics and not merit. They are out of touch and lacking real life experience with respect to budgeting and management. They want to manage other people's tax dollars because they wouldn't be able to manage their own. They can run political campaigns and nothing else. Their actions and votes on the Lodi council would have bankrupted any private business. They increased taxes 15.64% as they borrowed ridiculous amounts of money for basic Borough expenses.
Vinny Martin announced that he would be a business owner in 2017. It turned out that it was a cocaine and prostitution business. It didn't turn out well. That is the only business experience brought to the council chambers. And that is why your municipal taxes just increased 15.64%.
