>BOE does its best to contain costs
FRIDAY, MARCH 9, 2012
THE RIDGEWOOD NEWS
School board contains costs
Charles V. Reilly
To the editor:
Board of Education candidate Jim Morgan wants the Ridgewood BOE to follow the Glen Rock BOE’s example of proposing no increase in property taxes for 2012-13. (“Morgan running for BOE seat; March 2; The Ridgewood News; page A6) What he does not know, or fails to state, is that Glen Rock is not increasing property taxes because it outsourced custodian and teacher aide services in the current fiscal year. Of course, Ridgewood made that cost-saving decision in 1993, nearly 20 years before Glen Rock did. Glen Rock also provided an opt-out program for those employees choosing to use their spouse’s medical coverage, some 15 years after Ridgewood offered that same cost-saving decision. Glen Rock enacted a pupil activity fee, also some 15 years after Ridgewood.
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