Tuesday, March 31, 2009
BOARD OF EDUCATION BUDGET INTRODUCTION TOMORROW NIGHT
Just a reminder that the Mullica Township Board of Education is holding a special meeting tomorrow night (Wednesday, April 1st) to discuss the school budget for 2009-2010. The meeting is scheduled for 7:00 PM in the School Library.
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I missed the meeting. Does anyone know what happened and what we should be ready for?
RE:10:54pm
An answer to both questions would be "yes". It should be in the paper soon.
It looks like alot of hard decisions were made by the board to cut the staff,programs and improvements but there is still a .0305 cent increase proposed.
On a home assessed at $150,000 this would only be about $3.83 more a month.
Four certified staff members and 2.5 Aides would be leaving and the only thing left to cut would be more teachers which would result in even larger class sizes.
It's a sad situation for everybody with the economy the way it is.
Administration could be consolidated to save money too. It doesn't seem as though that is being proposed.
RE: 9:43 AM
$3.83 per month might sound like only a little amount of money but when you consider that our property taxes probably will go up by 15 cents this year (local school, high school, township and county property taxes), that's about $230 more a year on top of what what one is currently paying on a $150,000 house. If you house is valued at $250,000, that's a $383 tax increase. Plus, if you have $150,000 in income, you can't deduct it from your State income tax so you're paying taxes on your taxes to boot! Something has to change soon or we'll all be forced to move elsewhere. Even the public employees will have to commute from out of state.
It has been proposed by the state to eliminate individual school district supt's positions, and have positions reduced to just having county supt'ds. It has also been proposed by the state to negotiate teacher contracts for an entire county, instead negotiating contracts within individual districts. It has also been proposed by the state to have smaller K-12 districts.
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