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Bayonne School District tentative budget includes $7M health-care adjustment as benefits rise $12M
Summary
At an open workshop the Bayonne School District reviewed a tentative budget that staff said includes a $7,000,000 health-care adjustment to help cover a $12,000,000 rise in benefit costs; staff said the change will be submitted to the county and discussed at a budget hearing on April 28.
The Bayonne School District discussed a tentative budget at an open workshop that staff said will include a $7,000,000 health-care adjustment to help cover a total health-care cost increase of $12,000,000.
The moderator, speaking for district staff, said the district received an additional $6,000,000 in state aid but still faces a gap that the health-care adjustment is intended to close. "So the total increase in health care is $12,000,000. We received $6,000,000 additional in state aid, and we are doing a $7,000,000 health care adjustment," the moderator said.
Why it matters: the health-care adjustment is one of the exceptions to the local 2% cap on levy increases; the moderator said the adjustment would be a request that reaches taxpayers under statutory allowances.…
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