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Ridgewood NJ, the realty of school budgeting is that many prices of the budget puzzle are not covered by the 2% cap.
False Claim #3 (continued): “If our Board of Education develops a budget that calls for a school tax increase greater than 2%, a public vote is required on that budget.”
TRUTH: To be clear, if our local elections are moved to November, there is no public vote on the school budget. The so-called 2% cap is only on a portion of the school budget There are high priced expenses, like health insurance cost increases, that are exempt from that 2%. In truth, the budget could double, triple, or more over that 2% cap without ever triggering a vote. Case in point, 2018. Our Board of Education elections were in November that year, so there was no budget vote despite a 3.62% increase. That extra 1.62% above the so-called 2% cap represented $1.5 million charged to the taxpayers for the 2018-2019 school year. And once in place, that extra $1.5 million is charged each and every year going forward, compounded by each year’s tax increase. That budget proposal was very vocally disapproved by residents and carried by the affirmative votes of only 3 out of 5 board members.
The one vote team is habitual liar.
Bottom line : “ if our local elections are moved to November, there is no public vote on the school budget”
OVOV wants u to believe their bs scam on consolidating your vote in November. Its not true. They want to eliminate your right to vote.
VOTE NO !!
Holding on-cycle local elections would improve American democracy. Ridgewood shows us how. Vote YES!
https://www.northjersey.com/story/opinion/2020/10/13/nj-election-2020-should-be-rescheduled-opinion/
the editorial writer is not from NJ
The editorial writer is a hired gun from California.
The one in Village one vote team will tolerate no dissenting opinions