Clinton Township board of education meeting to approve the budget March 29, 2012, 7:30pm A key issue raised by the public about the board’s increased budget is why the board has not returned state aid it has received to taxpayers, to lower the school tax levy. During public comment, several people asked the board to [...]
Archive for March, 2012
Dunce Caps for County Superintendent & CTSD Business Administrator
Tuesday, Mar 27th, 2012 by admin | 0 Comments
Filed under: Hunterdon County, Municipal, Schools, State, Taxes
Filed under: Hunterdon County, Municipal, Schools, State, Taxes
Setting Tired taxpayer’s voice: When is the Clinton Township budget due? Another tired taxpayer: Who knows? Scene I: Background Date: Friday, March 16, 2012 Time: 12:45pm-1:05pm (20 minutes) Telephone Call: (908) 788-1455, County Superintendent of Schools, Jeffrey Scott Excerpt (from notes): ExMayor: Mr. Scott, what is the deadline for a Hunterdon school to deliver its [...]
Dincuff to Public: Who cares about your comments or any promises we made?
Last night at the Clinton Township school board’s formal public hearing for the 2012-2013 budget, in the face of unanimous public opposition to what was described as “over-spending,” the board decided to not approve the budget. Following a motion by member Rachel McLaughlin, seconded by Marc Freda, the board voted unanimously to put off action. In the ensuing [...]
CTSD Budget Exposed: Dincuff caves
There was no vote on the Clinton Township school budget tonight as planned, nor will the budget be delivered to the county superintendent as planned by the end of the week. It turns out — according to the board of education’s (BOE) own financial statements — that this year the BOE spent over $1.164M more [...]
The budget that school officials don’t want you to see
Thursday, Mar 22nd, 2012 by admin | 0 Comments
Filed under: Municipal, Schools, Taxes | Tags: Clinton Township, School Board, School Budget
Filed under: Municipal, Schools, Taxes | Tags: Clinton Township, School Board, School Budget
The actual 2012-2013 Preliminary School Budget submitted by the Clinton Township school district to the State of New Jersey Department of Education is finally available — but not through the school district. ExMayor.com has obtained it from the State using a legal filing. The full, official document is 107 pages long. The school board has published 38-pages of spreadsheets [...]
Tax Relief: “We don’t know what it means”
Clinton Township school board member Mark Kaplan says he doesn’t know what tax relief means. That’s how bad the management of our schools is. Last July, Governor Christie sent $247,310 of tax relief that Kaplan and the board should have immediately given back to taxpayers. Education Commissioner Chistopher Cerf sent the school board a July [...]
Hiding The Money: Dincuff schedules 7:30am vote on school budget
The Clinton Township School Board will vote to submit its preliminary $26 million budget to the state at 7:30 in the morning in a small conference room at Round Valley School on Cokesbury Road, on Friday, March 2, 2012. Hiding the budget Last Monday evening, superintendent Kevin Carroll and board president Jim Dincuff asked the [...]