Post Tagged with: "Governor Chris Christie"
Save The Books
If you use the Verona Public Library to borrow books from other libraries, you’d better be a speed reader: The service is shutting down June 30. This is not something that Library Director Jim Thomas wants to do, but he’s got no choice. Gov. Chris Christie has proposed $10.4 million in cuts to New Jersey’s [...]
BOE Will Detail Further Cuts Tonight
At tonight’s Board of Education meeting, Superintendent Charles Sampson and the rest of the Verona school board will outline the deep cuts that need to be made to the 2010-2011 Verona school budget in the wake of state aid cutbacks announced by Governor Chris Christie last Wednesday. As we reported then, Verona must now cut [...]
Unlucky Day For Verona Schools
So much for the luck of the Irish. Governor Chris Christie’s office just released the much-anticipated district-by-district numbers for the 2010-2011 school budgets and it’s bad news. Almost every district must cut 5 percent from its budget; in Verona, that amounts to $1.4 million. “This is pretty drastic,” says Verona Board of Education member Glenn [...]
BOE Spells Out School Budget Cuts
At last night’s Board of Education meeting, board members spelled out a list of items that will likely be cut from the 2010-2011 school budget. The board needs to present a preliminary budget for public comment at next Tuesday’s board meeting; a final budget must be submitted to the state by March 30. Though districts [...]
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 [...]
Verona Power Outage May Last To Thursday
The heavy rains and winds that began Friday have wreaked havoc on Verona and the surrounding area with widespread power outages, felled trees, closed roads, and flooded streams, rivers and basements. This morning found many Veronans grappling with major headaches as they tried to get to work and school. The good news: According to Police [...]
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 [...]
BOE Braces For Possibly “Drastic” Cuts
The poor economy’s effect on Verona schools’ bottom line is coming into focus, and one thing is clear: It’s going to be painful. On Thursday, Governor Chris Christie unveiled the state’s new austerity budget for the present year, which includes a freeze on payments to school districts. “It’s still preliminary, but the freeze has the [...]