Most capital spending will be reduced or deferred until 2022, "with details to follow," Carr wrote. "[CFO Juan Uribe] and I will be meeting with selected department heads this week to fine-tune our numbers," Carr wrote. Council president Michael dePierro said the email "sends a wrong message to our employees and to the public." "The township council did not request the budget cuts or create the budget shortfall that this administration finds itself in," he wrote in a statement. "This falls upon the administration. In producing the township budget, the administration must follow state mandates." dePierro said those mandates include submission of a balanced budget that remains within the state's annual 2% tax levy cap.