Judge Raso and Family
Hamilton Township Municipal Building is now the new home of Buena Vista Township Municipal Court which became effective January 1, 2017.
The Township Committee has looked at the court situation for a long time dating as far back as 2008 when we did a study to consider consolidating our court with five other municipalities.
More recently, in the past year, it has become evident that we needed to look for alternative ways to provide these services. An ongoing discussion was had with the Mayor and Business Administrator of Hamilton Township to the point where they reached an agreement that will be in effect for the next five years.
Being a State Police community, the amount of revenues of State Police fines amount only to just court costs. In these difficult economic times, it is hard to survive on primarily court costs.
Our expenses exceeded $250,000 per year and our revenue was approximately $95,000 per year.