{"id":10849,"date":"2017-04-28T00:28:57","date_gmt":"2017-04-28T04:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=10849"},"modified":"2017-04-28T00:30:45","modified_gmt":"2017-04-28T04:30:45","slug":"brick-school-board-to-ask-for-12m-referendum-from-taxpayers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2017\/04\/brick-school-board-to-ask-for-12m-referendum-from-taxpayers\/","title":{"rendered":"Brick School Board to Ask for $12M in Referendum From Taxpayers"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A damaged parking lot at Brick Township High School. (Credit: Brick Schools)<\/p><\/div>\n

While passing its budget Thursday night<\/a>, Brick school officials said the spending plan contained a $25,000 line item which would fund the management of a referendum that will be presented to taxpayers in the next year.<\/p>\n

Officials did not elaborate on what projects, specifically, the money would fund, however they indicated a vote on the plan would be put to taxpayers this year.<\/p>\n

One of the reasons Brick is looking to ask taxpayers to vote on a referendum now is because a bond from 1996 is expiring. That will eliminate annual payments of about $500,000 to pay off the former borrowing. The idea is to keep the $500,000 debt service payments in the budget, but borrow $12 million to fund immediate projects without adding new annual debt service payments to the budget.<\/p>\n

Earlier this spring, Brick officials laid out more than $12.5 million in repairs<\/a> that are needed district-wide. In a previous report from Shorebear, the $12.5 million in\u00a0repairs\u00a0would range from a $1,496,000 roof replacement for the Warren H. Wolf Elementary School (formerly the Primary Learning Center), to $1,297,637 for new baseball and softball fields at Brick Memorial High School, to $1,558,000 to replace a track at Brick Township High School.<\/p>\n

Some of the biggest ticket items the district believes it must purchase come in the form of\u00a0larger, capital projects, such as $1,500,000 for new security vestibules district-wide, another $1,500,000 for a second floor air conditioning system at Lake Riviera Middle School, and $750,000 for a central heating boiler covering multiple buildings. In all, the list of proposed projects adds up to $12,566,946.<\/p>\n

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