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Robbinsville board approves $5.03 million ballot question to avert cuts to classes, programs and activities
Summary
After a presentation showing a recurring $2.2 million structural deficit, Robbinsville's superintendent recommended three options. The board voted to put a $5,031,476 school funding question on the March 10 ballot to preserve class sizes, extracurriculars and elective courses while the district holds public forums.
The Robbinsville Board of Education voted on Jan. 5 to place a $5,031,476 funding question before voters on the March 10 ballot to maintain class sizes, preserve elective courses and protect extracurricular programs.
Superintendent Doctor Pizzo outlined the district's fiscal challenge and urged the community to consider options rather than single responses. "Being $2,200,000 upside down every year is not sustainable," he told the board, later reiterating that the district is projecting at least a $300,000 reduction in state aid this year. The presentation identified salaries and benefits as the largest budget drivers and traced a cumulative shortfall to years the district did not raise the levy to its permitted cap.
Why it matters: the administration said the Ask (equal to last year's adequacy figure) would preserve staffing and programming for roughly two years and avoid…
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