Marcal Manufacturing LLC, the 60-year-old toilet-tissue maker, plans to give away rolls to Newark employees after Mayor Cory Booker said he would ration supplies as part of budget cuts in New Jersey’s largest city.
A tractor-trailer with 50,000 rolls valued at $35,000 will be parked outside Newark City Hall today, according to Lindsay Jacob, a spokeswoman for the company, based in Elmwood Park, N.J.
Booker, 41, a Democrat who won a second term in May, last week said he may “stop buying everything from toilet paper to printer paper” as his city seeks to close a $150 million budget gap.
The mayor also said he may fire as many as 350 police officers and firefighters, move employees to a four-day workweek and scale back trash collection.
“This goes to show there are a lot of people that want to step up and help the city of Newark through these tough economic times,” Booker said of Marcal’s donation in an interview Wednesday.
