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Ridgewood NJ, The Ridgewood Board of Education will hold a Regular Public Meeting on Monday, November 19th 7:30 to 10pm .The public is invited to attend the meeting at the Ed Center, 49 Cottage Place, Floor 3. The meeting will be aired live on FiOS channel 33 and Optimum channel 77. Or it may be viewed live via the district website at www.ridgewood.k12.nj.us using the “Link in Live” tab.
Budget Election Resolution : The resolution approved by the Board at their September 17, 2018 Regular Public Meeting regarding the school budget election.
WHEREAS, the Ridgewood Board of Education and the Village Council have been delegated separate, nonexclusive authority to set the date for the school elections for Board members and the annual school budget; and
WHEREAS, the Ridgewood Board of Education in 2013 voted to move the date of the school elections from April to November; and
WHEREAS, the State of New Jersey had a four-year moratorium on moving school elections from November back to April which expired on May 31, 2018; and
WHEREAS, the Ridgewood Board of Education recommended to the Village Council before they voted to switch the election to April that the two bodies hold joint public hearings after Labor Day to determine if the community wanted the school elections to be moved to April and have the district incur additional costs estimated by the Village Manager to be $48,000 or higher; and WHEREAS, on July 18, 2018 the Village Council voted 3-2 to move the school elections to April; and
WHEREAS, there is legislation before the NJ Assembly and Senate to move all school elections to November eliminating the authority of local Councils and Boards to require school elections in April, if enacted, this legislation would supersede any action by the Village Council to move the school election to April; now, therefore, Be it resolved, that the Ridgewood Board of Education will exercise its authority to consider the date of school elections at its December 3, 2018 meeting after holding public hearings at the November Board of Education meetings to hear from Ridgewood voters their preference as to whether school elections should be held in November or April; and
Be it further resolved, that the dates for such public hearings will be:
November 5, 2018
November 19, 2018
Be it further resolved, that the Ridgewood Board of Education invites all Ridgewood voters to attend these public hearings to express their opinions and thoughts on this matter or to contact the Board at budgetelection@ridgewood.k12.nj.us.
