It doesn’t matter where new residents come from. It doesn’t matter if they are here for years or here for just one year. What is important is our town’s ability to provide a great education for each and every student, no matter how new or how old that student is to our district. With a state imposed cap on our school budget that is only allowed to increase by 2% per year, our district may not be able to handle a large influx of children without stressing already large class sizes. More kids does not lead to the hiring of more teachers and additional classrooms, the 2% cap won’t allow for this. If these new zoning approvals to build at 35 units an acre are the beginning of a new development trend in Ridgewood, then the residents deserve to know how this new trend will impact our schools and how will we pay for it? The good news, your taxes won’t go up because the state-imposed 2% cap will not allow for a tax increase. The bad news, you will pay for it with larger class sizes. 200 plus units today will look like a drop in the bucket 5 or 10 years from now when all of this expands throughout our CBD.
There seems to be ways to get around the 2% cap as many towns in Bergen county have done already.
$100 million still not enough? Give us a break
After full day kindergsrten the parents want a gifted program. Problem is that all Ridgewood parents think theri kids are gifted so this is going to be a very large program
well, those with children in school can vote in favor of exceeding the cap. See 50 million bond for Willard a few years back…
the 2% will not work.
I hear the moving vans inbound for the boomers outbound. Inbound is lots more Kids. Strap in taxpayers
The state allows for an adjustment based on an increase in enrollment. Doesn’t anyone do any research before they throw nonsense on the internet?
School and Municipal Government should be posting all of the checks / payments online for public view (except salaries and wages).
If the expenses become transparent – costs will automatically come down.