{"id":1805,"date":"2018-03-29T01:02:52","date_gmt":"2018-03-29T05:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/?p=1805"},"modified":"2018-03-29T03:20:15","modified_gmt":"2018-03-29T07:20:15","slug":"toms-river-regional-passes-tentative-2018-19-budget-including-tax-increase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/2018\/03\/toms-river-regional-passes-tentative-2018-19-budget-including-tax-increase\/","title":{"rendered":"Toms River Regional Passes Tentative 2018-19 Budget, Including Tax Increase"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1026\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1026\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1026\" src=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/DSC_0582-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"Toms River Regional (TRRS) Board of Education headquarters. (Photo: Daniel Nee)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/DSC_0582-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/DSC_0582-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/DSC_0582-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/DSC_0582-632x420.jpg 632w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/DSC_0582-640x425.jpg 640w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/DSC_0582-681x453.jpg 681w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/DSC_0582.jpg 1444w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1026\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Toms River Regional (TRRS) Board of Education headquarters. (Photo: Daniel Nee)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Toms River Regional school officials are hoping for the best, but preparing for a financial worst-case scenario in the proposed 2018-19 spending plan that has been submitted to the county superintendent for approval.<\/p>\n<p>Though Gov. Phil Murphy\u2019s proposed state budget includes an increase of $1.2 million in funding for the regional school district, officials say they are hearing conflicting state aid numbers from the Department of Education, and fear political wrangling could create a gap. Last year, the district was able to <a href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/2017\/10\/state-to-return-over-1-9m-in-funding-it-cut-from-toms-river-schools\/\">fend off<\/a> a <a href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/2017\/06\/toms-river-would-lose-3-3m-under-n-j-legislators-school-funding-deal\/\">$3.3 million cut<\/a> that was part of a deal hatched between former Gov. Chris Christie and Senate President Steve Sweeney.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do believe we\u2019re still under the 2 percent cap, and I want to make sure everyone knows it\u2019s a tentative budget,\u201d said Board President Russel Corby. \u201cIt is so tentative at this point.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The proposed $243,059,847 spending plan, inclusive of the district\u2019s debt service payments, would be supported by a tax levy of $161,316,744. The tax levy for the current school year is $157,529,467. Last year\u2019s total operating budget, including debt service, was $241,428,029.<\/p>\n<p>The school board will hold a public hearing on the budget April 25 at 7:30 p.m. at Toms River High School North. Barring any significant developments at the state level, the board has until May 20 to formally adopt the budget.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/2018\/03\/toms-river-regional-passes-tentative-2018-19-budget-including-tax-increase\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toms River Regional school officials are hoping for the best, but preparing for a financial worst-case scenario in the proposed 2018-19 spending plan that has been submitted to the county superintendent for approval. Though Gov. Phil Murphy\u2019s proposed state budget includes an increase of $1.2 million in funding for the regional school district, officials say [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1026,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,5],"tags":[559,11],"class_list":["post-1805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-toms-river-schools","tag-2018-19-school-budget","tag-toms-river-nj-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/DSC_0582.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}