{"id":8247,"date":"2016-04-28T04:19:25","date_gmt":"2016-04-28T08:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=8247"},"modified":"2016-04-28T11:32:10","modified_gmt":"2016-04-28T15:32:10","slug":"adoption-hearing-on-brick-school-budget-set-for-thursday-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2016\/04\/adoption-hearing-on-brick-school-budget-set-for-thursday-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Presentation, Hearing on Brick School Budget Set for Thursday Night"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Brick Township Board of Education\/Schools (Photo: Daniel Nee)<\/p><\/div>\n

UPDATE: Shorebeat has learned the 2016-17 budget will not be adopted Thursday night. It will be presented to the public followed by a public comment period.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Brick residents will have the opportunity to sound off on the\u00a0proposed 2016-17 school budget that raises spending by\u00a0$3,069,056 and raises taxes by $2,298,604 \u2013 a lower increase than initially sought by district officials.<\/p>\n

After the Board of Education voted down a proposed budget $7.1 million spending increase<\/a> and $5.7 million tax hike, it met and adopted the revised spending plan<\/a>, which sheds 10 positions and saves money by switching to full self-funded health insurance for employees.<\/p>\n

Interim Superintendent Thomas Gialanella said last month that the specific positions under consideration to be cut consist of a combination of administrators, teachers and paraprofessionals.<\/p>\n

Under full self-insurance, the district would select a third-party administrator to oversee coverage, but would directly pay the cost of individual medical claims. Such a switch would likely save about $3 million, Edwards said, reducing medical benefits costs from $24 million to $21 million.<\/p>\n

The meeting begins at 7 p.m. at the Brick Township High School auditorium. A presentation on the final budget up for adoption is scheduled to take place, followed by a public hearing. The adoption vote will likely come Monday night, Shorebeat has learned.<\/p>\n

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UPDATE: Shorebeat has learned the 2016-17 budget will not be adopted Thursday night. It will be presented to the public followed by a public comment period. Brick residents will have the opportunity to sound off on the\u00a0proposed 2016-17 school budget that raises spending by\u00a0$3,069,056 and raises taxes by $2,298,604 \u2013 a lower increase than initially […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3140,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[13],"tags":[2010,41,24],"class_list":["post-8247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brick-schools","tag-2016-17-school-budget","tag-board-of-education","tag-brick-nj-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/DSC_0004.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-291","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}