Post Tagged with: "Budget"
Events For The Week Of April 12
If you have kids in track, tennis, golf, lacrosse, softball and baseball, you’ve got a problem today: Every one of those sports has a game at 4 p.m. In fact, there’s so much in the way of sports this week, that it’s best to talk about the non-sports events first. Especially when one of them [...]
Montclair May Face Double-Digit Tax Hike
The budget pain just keeps getting worse for Montclair. First, its residents were hit with a school spending plan that cuts 82 positions from classes, administration and after-school activities. On Tuesday, they got the bad news about the municipal budget. Montclair faces a $5.1 million gap and, to close it, the township manager has drafted [...]
BOE Makes More Cuts But Preserves Programs
At last night’s Board of Education meeting, Superintendent Charles Sampson announced further cuts to the 2010-2011 budget, necessitated by last week’s announcement that Governor Chris Christie is reducing state aid to the Verona district by $1.4 million, or 5% of the budget. In addition to the $800,000 in cuts listed last week, the new items [...]
Governor’s Budget: Slash, Burn And Cap
The party’s over for government spending in New Jersey. The budget proposal unveiled today by Gov. Chris Christie to close New Jersey’s $10.9 budget seeks substantial cuts and belt-tightening from every corner of the state. Property tax rebate checks would be relegated to the history books and annual property tax increases would be capped at [...]
Watch Governor’s Budget Speech Live
New Jersey News, the state’s public television and radio station, is making it possible to watch Governor Chris Christie’s budget speech live over the Internet. The broadcast begins at 1 p.m. today and you can access it here. The governor is expected to present a $29.3 billion budget proposal predicated on sharp cuts in state [...]
Montclair Schools Eye $5M Budget Cut
We don’t yet know how big the school budget cut will be in Verona, but it’s a safe bet it won’t be anywhere near as large as what Montclair school officials have put on the table. According to the Star Ledger, Montclair needs to close a gaping $5.1 million budget hole, and is proposing the [...]
School Budget Meeting Tonight
Verona’s Board of Education is holding the first of three special meetings tonight to discuss the cuts that may need to be made to our school budget. The Board has two challenges. Gov. Chris Christie’s austerity budget for the present year includes a freeze on payments to school districts, a potential loss of about $54,000 [...]
Elliott, Unis Seek Reelection To Board Of Ed
Glenn Elliott, a six-year veteran of the Board of Education, and Michael Unis, who won last year’s election for a one-year spot to fill an unexpired term, have announced that they are seeking re-election to the Board. Two of the board’s five seats are up for grabs in this year’s election, which is set for [...]
Neighborhood Wrap For The Week Of Feb. 21
Though MyVeronaNJ is focused on Verona, there are things going on in our neighboring towns and across Essex County that bear watching. So we’re introducing a new weekly column to help you stay on top of some of these developments. This is how the tough economy and municipal budget deficits are playing out across Essex [...]
Governor Warns Of 15% Cut To School Aid
Brace for impact: Gov. Chris Christie told school districts on Wednesday to prepare for a 15% cut in state aid in the fiscal year 2011 budget. According to NJ.com, the governor isn’t setting the cuts in stone–he told a roundtable discussion in Union that he wants to keep state aid flat. And he coupled his [...]