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Bayonne board previews tentative budget and a 5% health‑care levy adjustment
Summary
The Bayonne Board of Education reviewed a tentative budget that includes a $7 million health‑care adjustment (part of a larger $12 million health‑care cost increase) and discussed how that change affects the district’s levy and programs; trustees were briefed on revenue, reserves, and program impacts.
The Bayonne Board of Education on March 17 reviewed a tentative budget that includes a planned $7,000,000 health‑care levy adjustment, part of a roughly $12,000,000 increase in health‑care costs the district said it must budget.
The board chair told trustees the district received about $6,000,000 in additional state aid but that the health‑care adjustment remains necessary. "That number is the exact number that we have to budget as a district," the chair said, explaining the health‑care figures come from the district’s health‑care provider. The chair said the district’s total local tax levy is about…
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