Wednesday, July 13, 2011
The Gloucester Township and Black Horse Pike districts remain unsure how the money will be spent.
The Gloucester Township and Black Horse Pike Regional school districts will receive more money from the state than was announced in February. The school funding adjustment announced by Gov. Chris Christie on Tuesday essentially doubles the previously announced increase in state aid to most school district across the state. For example, Gloucester Township Public Schools (GTPS) initially was told it would see an increase in aid of $954,775 for 2011-12 as compared to 2010-11. It will see an increase of $1,909,549 with the adjustment. The K-8 district is now slated to receive $48,919,027 from the state for the 2011-12 academic year, up from the $47,964,252 announced earlier this year. "The early indication is it's good news for the district…
Friday, June 24, 2011
The BHPRSD board vowed to do what it can to work with the marching bands amid budget cuts.
RUNNEMEDE—The pop culture idiom “and the band played on” has become something of a local anthem for Triton Regional High School students and parents, who over these past few weeks have loudly shown they refuse to see their music program silenced. For a second time this month, they filled the high school library here at Triton Thursday night for a Black Horse Pike Regional School District (BHPRSD) board meeting, though managing some time in between to earn a first-place finish at the NJ State American Legion Parade in Wildwood. They received remarks from elected officials that came as close to closure as they may see, that despite a 25 percent cut in funding which was part of across-the-board line item decreases, the board was prepared to …
Friday, June 10, 2011
A large group of students attended Thursday's Black Horse Pike Regional School District Board of Education meeting to decry proposed cuts.
RUNNEMEDE – With their backs against the wall and significant funding in jeopardy, marching band members and parents gathered en masse at the Black Horse Pike Regional School District board meeting on Thursday at Triton Regional High School to give an emotional plea to keep their program intact. After rumors surfaced that all three district high school programs were being cut—at Triton, Highland and Timber Creek—the Triton Band Association responded by assembling about 100 of their faithful to demonstrate against the move. They also offered the board any assistance they could provide to keep the music alive here in Gloucester Township. "The music programs are an important part of our curriculum … of our society," said Triton Band …
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
The K-8 school budget for 2011-12 is reduced by $300,000, leaving the average homeowner to pay about $50 more in taxes next year.
The Gloucester Township Board of Education unanimously approved a spending plan with an adjusted tax levy Monday night at Ann A. Mullen Middle School, cutting the 2011-12 school budget by $300,000. The Board of Education’s decision followed the unanimous certification of the adjusted K-8 district's budget by the Township Council earlier the same evening. The GTPS rejected budget, defeated in the April election by a relatively narrow margin, totaled $100,912,254. The approved budget calls for spending $100,612,254. The originally proposed tax rate of 94.96¢ per $100 of assessed property value would have resulted in the owner of the average-priced Gloucester Township home ($199,000) paying $1,889.70 in taxes to Gloucester Township Public …
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
About $180,000 was added to the originally introduced budget to cover anticipated higher gas prices and an uncovered interest payment.
The Township Council unanimously approved a spending amendment at its meeting Monday night, paving the way for the governing body to finally adopt the 2011 municipal budget. The budget was increased by $180,558 with the amendment, which will not bring about a tax hike. Officials pulled the amendment money from the original budget's anticipated surplus, allowing for the tax levy to remain at the same $37,346,064 as when Mayor David Mayer introduced the $49 million spending plan on March 14. The amendment resulted in the addition of $151,300 to the fuel budget, bringing the township's total for anticipated 2011 gas expenditures to $550,000. The move was made in light of sharply rising oil prices over recent months, according to Business …
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Township Council will consider an amendment to the proposed budget at a May meeting.
When the mayor rolled out the township's proposed calendar year 2011 budget in mid-March, it did not include a tax hike. It still doesn't, but the township may now be dipping into its anticipated surplus to cover some expenses that were not factored as Mayor David Mayer and his budget-crunching team put together the township's 2011 spending plan. The township will advertise the proposed amendment in its official newspapers—Courier-Post and The Record Breeze—over the next few days. Business Administrator Tom Cardis explained during Monday night's Township Council meeting that officials have decided to add $151,300 to the fuel budget, given sharply rising oil prices. "We were dealing with what the (gas prices) were in September, because that…
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Gloucester Township Municipal Complex
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Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Gloucester Township Public Schools' proposed 2011-12 operating budget would require no staff cuts or elimination of programs.
Gloucester Township Public Schools' proposed 2011-12 budget would result in a $611,362, or 1.4 percent, increase in the tax levy, school officials said. The proposed budget would enable the school to maintain all current student programs and services. Under the proposed budget, the owner of the average Gloucester Township home, assessed at $199,000, would pay $1,898.18 to the school district toward the budget. This average tax bill would signify a $57.10 increase from the current school year budget. Assistant Superintendent John Bilodeau and Superintendent Thomas Seddon presented the proposed $100,912,254 budget during the school board meeting at Charles W. Lewis Middle School Monday night. “We worked very hard to deliver a proposed …
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James W. Lilley Elementary School
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Ann A. Mullen Middle School
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Gloucester Township Public Schools
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Gloucester Township Elementary School
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Glen Landing Middle School
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Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Education, property-tax relief and community health were among the issues discussed Tuesday morning at a Senate budget panel's public hearing at Camden County College.
The New Jersey Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee held the second of a series of public hearings for the fiscal year 2012 budget at Camden County College on Tuesday. Members of the public were given four minutes to testify and lobby for changes to the 2012 proposed budget. The hot issues: education, property-tax relief, and community-health and rehabilitation services. The 2012 budget, as proposed by Gov. Chris Christie, totals $29.4 billion, a 2.6-percent reduction from 2011 budget. For education, Christie proposed a $250 million increase in aid to support the 600 school districts in New Jersey. Last year, state aid did not increase for schools and in 2010, aid was cut between 75 and 100 percent. “The 2011 budget is strangling…
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Tuesday, March 15, 2011
The mayor also announced Monday that the township is looking to partner with Cherry Hill on trash disposal to save money.
Residents would receive the same municipal tax bills this year as they did last year under the proposed township budget. Mayor David Mayer introduced his administration's proposed 2011 budget during Monday night's Council meeting. "As with my first budget—the transition budget of last year—this proposed budget again freezes our tax rate, which will result in a zero percent increase on the municipal levy," the mayor said. "As I mentioned last year, we need to control the cost of government and do all that we can to control that cost." The budget calls for the township to spend $49,246,251 this year, representing a decrease of roughly $628,000 compared to the prior budget, Mayer said. The township's 2011 spending plan will not require an …
Friday, March 4, 2011
The Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee will hear from the public in the middle of the month.
The state Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee will be at Camden County College's Blackwood campus on March 15 to hear area residents' thoughts on Gov. Chris Christie's proposed fiscal year 2012 budget, according to Senate Democrats. Citizens will be given the opportunity to speak directly to lawmakers who sit on the Budget and Appropriations Committee at the public forum about the proposed budget's potential impacts. The first public hearing will be held March 7 at Bergen Community College, in Paramus, beginning at 9 a.m.. Details on the March 15 Camden County College public hearing, including an exact location and a start time, will be announced soon. To register to speak at the hearing, visit njleg.state.nj.us/12-Budget/s_Letter.…
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Camden County College
College Dr & Little Gloucester Rd, Blackwood, NJ
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sschul
2:05 am on Sunday, July 24, 2011
The BOE waste so much money on non essentials items they will go through this additional state aid and by next year taxes will have to be raised again. Don't know how the voters of GT keep electing the same losers. This is what you get when a council member is also a middle school teacher. The administrations is awful in this district and only favors their teacher friends and craps on everyone … more ›