Waldwick April 18, 2012 THE VILLADOM TIMES III • Page 11 The Waldwick Chamber of Commerce’s 5K Run has a new logo this year as it marks its fifth anniversary. The new image will be featured on the shirts worn by participants and on signs advertising the event and its sponsors. A heart has been added as the focal point of the distinctive graphic that represents the popular event to showcase this year’s major beneficiaries: three local heart-related charities, Hope with Heart, Sean Fisher Memorial Foundation, and Chris Mayer and the Westchester Medical Heart Transplant Unit. Funding raised by the 5K is also given back to beautifying the community as well as donated to community volunteer organizations such as the Waldwick Ambulance Corps, Waldwick Fire Department, Waldwick PBA, Waldwick Community Alliance, CERT, Waldwick Public Library, Golden Club and WHS Booster Club. Run director Stanley Kowalski, who had been instru- New logo designed for Fifth Annual 5K Run The new Waldwick Chamber of Commerce 5K Run logo mental in the design of the original logo, said he thought it would be fitting to show the heart-related theme on the logo this year, so he asked Nando Calderone, a chamber member who owns Nando Graphics School of Visual Arts in Waldwick, if he could do the job. Calderone donated his time and service to redesign the logo by adding the heart. The original logo, designed by illustrator Liz Barbagallo of Lizart Studios in Franklin Lakes for the 2009 race, depicts two runners, one male, one female, arms outstretched triumphantly, crossing the finish line simultaneously.The female is wearing a bib with the Waldwick zip code on it; the male‘s bib sports the race date. Barbagallo also painted the race route map, highlighting some of Waldwick’s well known landmarks. Kowalski said he took photographs of the actual race route showing what (continued on page 18) Waldwick’s municipal budget for 2012 has kept the annual tax increase below $17 for the average house while maintaining the fiscal integrity of the community, restoring some programs previously cut and making no new cuts in services, according to Councilwoman Anita Bozzo, the council’s finance chairman. The borough council last week adopted the $13,636,105 spending plan, up $69,044 over 2011. Included in this amount is the $52,600 emergency appropriation adopted last year to clean up after the pre-Halloween snow storm. Municipal budget restores previously cut programs This amount also includes $540,479 to support the public library, which is now shown as a separate item on property tax bills even though it is part of the municipal budget. The amount to be raised by taxation, $8,647,752, is up $55,548, which is $200,000 below the state-mandated cap of 2 percent for 2012. In fact, since the borough consistently comes in under the state cap, it has built up a cap bank of $479,128, which can be applied at a future time if needed. A house assessed at $416,000, the borough’s average, will pay an additional $16.80 a year in taxes for munici- pal purposes only. Taxes to support the public schools and the county budget have yet to be determined and are not included in this calculation “I thank the council for going over everything carefully – we looked at all recommendations – and thank residents for the success of the I&I (inflow and infiltration) program,” Bozzo said. “It really helped.”A new ordinance prohibiting sump pump connections into the sanitary sewer system is saving the borough $116,800 in sewer charges in 2012. (continued on page 17)