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Superintendent James Reyna warns rising insurance and utility costs could force staff cuts, urges state action
Summary
Superintendent James Reyna told the Greater Egg Harbor Regional High School District board that multi‑year, double‑digit increases in health insurance and utility costs threaten district staffing and could force layoffs unless state policy or funding changes are made. He urged local advocacy and discussed regionalization and self‑insurance as possible responses.
James Reyna, superintendent of the Greater Egg Harbor Regional High School District, told the board that the district is facing “accelerating” health‑insurance and utility costs that threaten current staffing levels and the delivery of services.
Reyna said the district and others statewide are seeing health‑insurance increases well above usual budget assumptions and that the effect is cumulative. “If we have two more years in a row of a 24% increase in health insurance benefits, we will be eliminating dozens of teachers in each building,” Reyna said, urging board members to press legislators for attention to the problem.
Why it matters: Reyna framed the issue as both a local and statewide budget problem. He said…
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