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 Posted: Thu, Apr 1 2010, 7:20 am EDT Post subject: Re: What happened at the school budget hearing last night? |
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| Guest wrote: | | Guest wrote: | | Guest 2 wrote: | | Salary freeze would only ameliorate some cuts - not eliminate them. The amt. to be cut is BIG - a lot bigger than the raises. |
Don't kid yourself, the total cost of a 2% salary increase across the board for both teachers and admin + the increase to the health care cost (which is paid by the district) amounts to a pretty significant cost to the district. This savings may not be able to eliminate all cuts, but would certainly lessen the impact on students. Thus far, a majority of the budget cuts directly impact students ie. teacher cuts, programs, and services. Admin & teacher salary freezes would not directly impact students, which I believe is the overall all goal, to minimize the impact on students. Ask yourself...why should a administrator or teacher be entitled to a raise in a year when there is a tremendous financial burden on the district? |
You were obviously not at the meeting. The teachers gave back half of their raise plus all there education reimbursements only yielded around a hundred thousand dollars. |
A couple of things.
1) Salaries do not affect the health insurance costs those are fixed. I am not sure whether you meant that they increase or not if a person is given a raise.
2) What logic is Only Yielded around a hundred thousand dollars. If we assume half of that was raises then that means that a salary freeze would add another 50k. That means we could save a program or two or a teacher or two. |
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| Posted: Thu, Apr 1 2010, 8:28 am EDT Post subject: Re: What happened at the school budget hearing last night? |
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| Isn't Governor Christie promised some retoration of aid if teachers agree to a wage freeze? So, it would not only be the savings in pay, but additional aid that we would gain.... |
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| Posted: Thu, Apr 1 2010, 10:12 am EDT Post subject: Re: What happened at the school budget hearing last night? |
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3.26 CENT TAX RATE INCREASE
•Proposed Tax Rate General Fund
88.84 cents per hundred dollars of assessed valuation
$5,485.25 per year to the average taxpayer (assessed at $617,439)
•Proposed Tax Rate Debt Service Fund
5.38 cents per hundred dollars of assessed valuation
$331.90 per year to the average taxpayer (assessed at $617,439)
•Proposed Overall Tax Rate
94.21 cents per hundred dollars of assessed valuation
$5,817.15 per year to the average taxpayer (assessed at $617,439)
Tax Impact of Proposed Budget
Assessed-----2010-11
Value----------Tax Increase
$ 300,000----------$ 97.87
$ 500,000----------$ 163.12
$ 617,254----------$ 201.50
$ 700,000----------$ 228.37
$ 900,000----------$ 293.62
http://portal.cranburyschool.org/boe/Budget%20Info/2010_11_PowerPoint.pdf |
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| Posted: Thu, Apr 1 2010, 9:39 pm EDT Post subject: Re: What happened at the school budget hearing last night? |
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Why are they cutting French?
SACRE BLEU!
All my kids take French, and they love the teacher.
How may we fight to keep French in our school? |
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| Posted: Thu, Apr 1 2010, 10:05 pm EDT Post subject: Re: What happened at the school budget hearing last night? |
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| French is only being cut in grades 1 & 2. Plenty of French left. |
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| Posted: Thu, Apr 1 2010, 10:09 pm EDT Post subject: Re: What happened at the school budget hearing last night? |
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| Guest wrote: | | Isn't Governor Christie promised some retoration of aid if teachers agree to a wage freeze? So, it would not only be the savings in pay, but additional aid that we would gain.... |
The town will only get back the amount that the state would have paid on Medicaire and Social Security on the foregone raise amount. So they would only give back something like 7% of the savings on the raises. So if we saved 25K (note that the teachers gave back salary and tuition reimbursement - so the amount referenced above in teacher give backs is not ALL salary -- only partly) the state would only give us back approx. 3% of that -- not much to write home about. |
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