For the third year in a row, state aid to the township will remain the same, the state Department of Community Affairs announced Monday.

Mahwah will get $4,913,416 from Trenton this year, the same amount it received in 2011 and 2012, the DCA announced Monday afternoon.

According to a DCA release, the aid to every town in Bergen County will remain flat in 2013.

“This preserved funding means no town in Bergen County will see a decrease in formula municipal aid for the upcoming year,” Christie said in the release. “It also demonstrates that providing stable, predictable levels of municipal aid to support local governments and taxpayers is a core priority of my Administration.”

The nearly $5M figure is a drop of over $1M from the aid figure Mahwah received from the state in 2007.

Public hearings on the township’s proposed 2013 budget started last month. The township council is expected to introduce the budget, which will determine the municipal tax rate, later this month.

Mahwah schools will also receive the same amount of state aid next school year as they did for the 2012-13 school year, the Christie Administration announced last week.

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