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Board reviews proposed budget with health‑insurance, salary and transportation increases and approves consent bundles
Summary
The Greater Egg Harbor Regional High School District board reviewed a proposed budget that includes a $1.3 million health‑insurance increase, higher transportation and salary costs, and discussed tax‑rate impacts for constituent municipalities; the board approved multiple consent bundles and set a May 4 budget hearing.
The Greater Egg Harbor Regional High School District board on a routine monthly meeting reviewed a proposed budget that would raise the district’s tax levy to cover higher personnel and operating costs and approved several consent bundles including business, transportation, education and personnel items.
Board staff presented the budget and said health‑insurance costs are projected to rise about 12%, an increase the presentation quantified at roughly $1,300,000. Other major cost drivers listed were a $2,200,000 increase in salaries, $667,000 in additional transportation costs and about $470,000 in state‑facility payments; staff said those four items together account for about $4.5 million of the…
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