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>Special Public Meeting/Public Hearing on the School Budget

>BOARD OF EDUCATION

Ridgewood, New Jersey

Special Public Meeting/Public Hearing on the Budget

7:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 27, 2007

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2 thoughts on “>Special Public Meeting/Public Hearing on the School Budget

  1. >As it stands now, Question 2 includes a annual recurring expense of $104K for salaries assoicated with two new computer technicians.

    So unless the BOE drops this item, a “yes” vote for Question 2 will cost more than the adversited $104K. It’s $104K + for life!

  2. >I was infuriated by the members of the BOE, who seemed to be patting themselves on the back for raising our taxes, AGAIN, in last week’s RN article about the budget! Does anyone else agree that the BOE does NOT have a mandate to propose a budget that uses every bit of Trenton’s “allowable” annual increase, every year.

    Isn’t it the BOE’s responsibility to try to deliver a budget that does NOT increase automatically every year? Only infrequently and in unusual circumstances should the annual allowable increase actually be used.

    When is enough really going to be enough? If Rudy Giuliani could reduce or eliminate 23 different taxes in NYC during eight years, why can’t Ridgewood manage to even hold taxes (let alone reduce them)? In the past six years the average increase from the BOE has been 4.59% per year and the cummulative increase from the BOE in that time has been over 25%. This is a disgrace.

    Our BOE members don’t seem to understand that it is NOT “OK” to keep dipping into our pockets. Perhaps it is time to take back control of our village’s educational destiny from the teachers’ union…

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