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Piscataway Township School District presents tentative 2026'27 budget, proposes 7.7% tax levy increase
Summary
The Piscataway Township School District presented a tentative 2026'27 budget proposing a 7.7% tax-levy increase to cover a projected 30% rise in health-care costs, state-aid volatility and enrollment shifts; the plan uses $2 million of maintenance reserve and would reduce net staffing by 23 positions while expanding preschool seats.
The Piscataway Township School District presented its tentative 2026'27 budget at a board meeting, recommending a 7.7% tax-levy increase that would set the district's proposed levy at $118,276,096 and raise the average assessed homeowner's school tax by about $453 next year, officials said.
Business Administrator David Oliver told the board that roughly 75% of the district's general fund is supported by local taxpayers, 16% by state aid and the rest by other revenues, and that instability in the state funding formula has made multi-year planning difficult. "The formula is still unpredictable," Oliver said, noting that recent caps limited some losses to about 3% but that aid swings over a two-year period remain large.
Oliver and Superintendent Glover framed the proposed levy as a response to several pressures: a projected ~30% increase in employee health-benefit costs after the state health plan rose 31.9% Jan. 1; slower or declining enrollment (including a projected…
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