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Ridgewood NJ, Ridgewood Public Schools present its tentative $130 Million 2025-2026 Budget as district wide enrollment continues to decline.
On March 17, 2025 at the Ridgewood Board of Education Special Public Meeting the board presented the highlights from the 2025-2026 budget.
The School budget will incur a 2.0% Tax Levy Increase over Prior Year Tax Levy of  $2,105,729. With the averaged assessed Village home value of $712,700  an increase for the average assessed Home of $251.66 /year or $20.97 / month or $0.69 / day of property taxes.
RPS Budget Team ,”This budget was designed to respect the taxpayers’ burden while advancing the strategic mission of the Ridgewood Public Schools. It aligns with our goals and prioritizes the resources needed to achieve them. We look forward to your feedback and collaboration as we move forward together.”
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Take a look at all the ridiculous salaries at cottage place. Not equal to the work being done or more accurately Not being done
The salaries are helpful for strengthening a bureaucratic structure that is needed for dismantling the district’s “tradition of excellence” once and for all.
Too many admins and supervisors and other high paying non-teachers!
Bureaucracy is taking over the education!
DOGE
Student enrollment is down, but staff headcount is going up? What sense does that make?
What are the enrollment data as far as down student counts ? Thanks
What the……..?
And you gave away your right to vote on the BOE budget.
You can’t fix STUPID
USAID #2
Can you discharge an entire stagnant winter swimming Pool onto the street
(Wall Street) and shift a mess down the 2 blocks as cars run through the mess for Days ..is a permit required ?
It’s better to ask for forgiveness than permission.
You can do anything you want. This is Vagianosville. We are no different than any other cheezy Jersey town now.
How many students attend the Ridgewood schools? Divide that number by the budget to see what a per student cost actually is in Ridgewood
Another area desperately in need of some efficiency. Unlikely though since Ridgewood voters decided to give blank checks.
We’re cool with it, because we are ….
RICH and STUPID
I want to receive a bullet point list from every Village employee with the five (5) things that he/she accomplished last week. I want to see these lists every week. Low performers on the taxpayers’ dime must be fired immediately.
Let’s start with the Water Department. Did anyone see the ridiculous “annual recertifciation” of smart irrigation controllers? Why is this done EVERY YEAR? Do they think we’re going to buy a smart water controller, use it for one year, then not use it again. Which bureaucrat created this nonsense? Surely they have better things to do in that office! Although, maybe not and they ‘re just there to warmp up the chair and collect a paycheck…
~ self-appointed head of DORVE (Department of Ridgewood Village Efficiency)
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-DORK (Department of Ridgewood Kakistrocracy)