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Califon Board adopts $3.33 million budget for 2025–26; reserves tapped for repairs
Summary
The Califon Board of Education unanimously adopted a $3,333,297 budget for 2025–26 that raises $2,684,821 in local taxes, applies enrollment adjustments and withdraws from maintenance and capital reserves for building repairs. The resolution also includes travel-reimbursement language that appears to contain conflicting dollar limits in the agenda text.
The Califon Board of Education on April 30 adopted a $3,333,297 budget for the 2025–26 school year, approving a roll-call motion that passed unanimously.
Vice President Michael Reaves moved to adopt the tentative budget and President Christopher Keiser seconded; the motion was approved on a unanimous roll-call vote. The budget documents in the meeting record show total expenditures of $3,291,753 for the general fund, $41,544 in special revenues and a combined total of $3,333,297. Anticipated revenues are listed as $648,476, leaving $2,684,821 to be raised by local taxes.
The budget includes $333,522 of enrollment adjustments, of which $38,910 was applied and $294,612 was banked as banked cap. The board approved withdrawals from reserve accounts to cover required maintenance and capital work: $40,000 from Maintenance Reserve and $14,800 from Capital Reserve, the latter explicitly identified to fund library/resource-room carpet replacement and hot-water-heater replacement.
Agenda documents accompanying the motion also include language about travel and related expense reimbursements. One paragraph states the board will include travel reimbursements in the tentative budget “to a maximum expenditure of $15,000” for staff and board members for 2025–26; a separate paragraph later in the same budget section references a “maximum travel expenditure in the amount of $10,000” for 2025–26 and a $1,500 per-employee regular business travel cap. The meeting record does not explain the difference between the two figures.
The board packet indicates the tentative budget was approved by the Hunterdon County Executive Superintendent and advertised in the Hunterdon Democrat on April 23, 2025. No public comment was recorded on the budget at the time of adoption.
The board entered executive session later in the evening and reconvened; the meeting minutes do not disclose any additional actions tied to the budget adoption. The board adjourned at 8:45 p.m.
