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Field Lightning Detection System Presentation – April 18

The Village Council will meet on April 18 at 5PM in the to hold budget hearings Caucus Room at Village Hall . At approximatley 8pm or a bit thereafter, a presentation on Field Lightning Detection System will be presented.

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ANNUAL SCHOOL ELECTION IS APRIL 17

Following a Public Hearing on the 2012-2013 school budget on Monday, March 26, the Ridgewood Board of Education approved the 2012-2013 budget, which will now be presented to voters on Tuesday, April 17.

On Tuesday, April 3, the Board of Education and Superintendent Dr. Daniel Fishbein will make a final public presentation on the proposed 2012-2013 school budget. Please plan to attend  at the Ridgewood High School Library Media Center at 7:30 p.m.

Questions about the budget may also be addressed to the superintendent at budget13@ridgewood.k12.nj.us.

Click here https://tinyurl.com/75eh53n to view an updated presentation on the proposed 2012-2013 school budget.

Click here https://tinyurl.com/85hg6z4 to view Ridgewood comparative statistics on educational spending and staffing ratios from  the May 2011 Comparative Spending Guide from the New Jersey Department of Education.

Click here https://tinyurl.com/d4p7f28 to view the summary of tax increases presented to the Board at the March 19, 2012 Joint Meeting with the Village Council.

Click here https://tinyurl.com/6w2oktp to view the complete Fiscal Year 2012-2013 budget.

Any Ridgewood resident who is a registered voter may vote in the Annual Election on Tuesday, April 17, either at regular polling locations or by mail-in ballot. Applications for mail-in ballots must be received in the Bergen County Elections office by Tuesday, April 10. Full information may be found on the Bergen County website or by clicking here. Forms are also available at any Municipal Clerk’s office or other public agency. For further information, please call the Superintendent of Elections office at 201-336-6100 between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m.

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>the Prisoner by hook or by crook

>Why Airport Security Is Broken— And How To Fix It

Air travel would be safer if we allowed knives, lighters and liquids and focused on disrupting new terror plots. A former head of the Transportation Security Administration, Kip Hawley, on embracing risk.

Airport security in America is broken. I should know. For 3½ years—from my confirmation in July 2005 to President Barack Obama’s inauguration in January 2009—I served as the head of the Transportation Security Administration.

You know the TSA. We’re the ones who make you take off your shoes before padding through a metal detector in your socks (hopefully without holes in them). We’re the ones who make you throw out your water bottles. We’re the ones who end up on the evening news when someone’s grandma gets patted down or a child’s toy gets confiscated as a security risk. If you’re a frequent traveler, you probably hate us.

More than a decade after 9/11, it is a national embarrassment that our airport security system remains so hopelessly bureaucratic and disconnected from the people whom it is meant to protect. Preventing terrorist attacks on air travel demands flexibility and the constant reassessment of threats. It also demands strong public support, which the current system has plainly failed to achieve.

https://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303815404577335783535660546.html

>Glen Rock brush fire injures firefighter, suspends NJ Transit service for 2 hours
Published: Saturday, April 14, 2012, 4:39 PM     Updated: Saturday, April 14, 2012, 4:39 PM

GLEN ROCK — A brush fire along the train tracks near the Glen Rock fire station injured one firefighter and suspended train service for two hours this afternoon, firefighters said.

At 1:28 p.m. firefighters received a call of a large brush fire burning in a quarter-mile wooded area along the train tracks said Glen Rock fire chief Tom Jennings. The cause of the blaze is unknown but was one of a few brush fires in the state on the dry, warm afternoon.

https://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2012/04/glen_rock_brush_fire_injures_f.html

>The Internet Taxes that Could Be Coming
Mike Brownfield April 12, 2012 at 9:02

If you’ve ever bought anything on the Internet, over the phone, or from a catalog, you might have noticed that when you buy from some stores, you don’t pay any state sales tax, but if you buy from other stores, you do. That’s because a Supreme Court decision protected out-of-state businesses from revenue-hungry states. But a new bill working its way through Congress would change all that, turning every online retailer into a sales tax collector. And that’s legislation Congress should reject.

Back in 1992, the Supreme Court ruled in Quill Corporation v. North Dakota that a state cannot force a retailer who doesn’t have any physical presence in that state to collect sales taxes from Internet, phone or catalog sales. So if you ordered a book online from BarnesandNoble.com and there’s a Barnes and Noble store right down the street from your house, you’d have to pay sales tax. But if you ordered that book online from a mom and pop bookstore with one location halfway across the country, they wouldn’t have to collect sales tax from you.

In the Quill case, North Dakota tried to force out-of-state retailers to collect sales taxes and remit them to North Dakota, even if they didn’t have a physical presence in the state. Quill Corporation, which sells office supplies and is based in Delaware, had offices and warehouses in Illinois, California and Georgia, but didn’t have any bricks, mortar, employees, or sales representatives in North Dakota. It did, however, have 3,000 customers there and $1 million in annual sales, so North Dakota wanted Quill to collect tax on those sales.

https://tinyurl.com/7o4cd8m

>Just a reminder as you vote on a new Ridgewood School Budget : Mike Doherty’s Fair School Funding could save Ridgewood $42,050,037

State Senator Mike Doherty has drafted legislation that will provide an equal amount of school aid for every student in New Jersey, regardless of where they reside. Mike’s legislation is consistent with Article VIII, Section IV, Paragraph 2 of the New Jersey State Constitution, which states that “the fund for the support of free public schools . . . shall be annually appropriated to the support of free public schools, and for the equal benefit of all the people of the state.”

Under Mike Doherty’s plan of Fair School Funding, Ridgewood Village will get back $42,050,037 more each year for school funding!

A draft of Senator Mike Doherty’s bill appears below:

An Act concerning State school aid and supplementing Title 18A of the New Jersey Statutes.

Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

Whereas, Article III., Paragraph 1, of the New Jersey State Constitution states, “The powers of government shall be divided among three distinct branches, the legislative, executive, and judicial. No person or persons belonging to or constituting one branch shall exercise any of the powers properly belonging to either of the others, except as expressly provided in this Constitution.”

Whereas, Article VIII, Section IV, Paragraph 1, of the New Jersey State Constitution states, “the Legislature shall provide for the maintenance and support of a thorough and efficient system of free public schools for the instruction of all children in State between the ages of five and eighteen years.”

Whereas, Article VIII, Section IV, Paragraph 2, of the New Jersey State Constitution states, “the fund for the support of free public schools . . . shall be annually appropriated to the support of free public schools, and for the equal benefit of all the people of the state.”

Whereas, Article VIII, Section I, Paragraph 7.a. of the New Jersey State Constitution states, the income tax is to be “annually appropriated . . . exclusively for the purpose of reducing or offsetting property taxes.”

1. Notwithstanding the provisions of P.L.2007, c.260 (C.18A:7F-43 et al.) or any other law to the contrary, State school aid for the first school year beginning after the effective date of P.L. , c. (C. ) (pending before the Legislature as this bill) and for each subsequent school year shall be provided to school districts as follows:

Where TDE is the total number of students enrolled in a school district;

TSE is the total number of students enrolled in public schools in New Jersey;

TITR is the total projected income tax revenue to be collected by the State of New Jersey;

and TDSA is the total amount of school aid to be provided to a school district.

a. The Department of Education shall determine each public school district’s projected resident enrollment (TDE) for the budget year and the total Statewide public school resident enrollment (TSE) of children between the ages of five and eighteen years of age.

b. The State Treasurer shall determine the total projected revenue from the State income tax (TITR) for the budget year.

c. State aid for each school district (TDSA) for the budget year shall be determined pursuant to the following formula:
(TITR/TSE) x TDE = TDSA

2. This act shall take effect immediately.

STATEMENT

This bill establishes a new formula for the allocation of State aid to school districts to satisfy the Legislature’s constitutional responsibility to provide for a system of free public schools and provide property tax relief through the appropriation of revenues generated by the state income tax.

The bill provides school district State aid by determining a per pupil amount of State aid and multiplying that amount by the school district’s projected resident enrollment for the budget year. The per pupil State aid amount is determined after the State Treasurer projects the total revenue amount from the State income tax for the budget year.

Following the determination of the projected total State income tax, the Department of Education is to divide that amount by the total projected resident enrollment of the school districts. The department determines each school district’s State aid by multiplying this per pupil State aid amount by the district’s projected resident enrollment.