Friday, March 1, 2013
Morris Plains Borough district's aid to increase by 33 percent.
The Morris School District will see a $343,548 increase in state aid in the 2013-14 school year according to figures released by the state Thursday, representing a 5.8 percent increase over last year's $5,973,619. The district's state aid will total $6,317,167 in 2013-14. Of that, $2,923,993 will go towards special education. The Morris Plains Borough School District will also see an increase in state aid of $186,032. The district's state aid will total $749,160 this year, representing 33 percent more than the $563,128 the district received last year. The state Department of Education boasted that the 2013-14 aid package is the largest ever released by the state. Nearly $9 billion will go to public schools, an increase of about $97.3 …
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
$185,000 going toward South Street streetscape project; $85,000 awarded for Lafayette Avenue pedestrian safety and accessibility improvements.
Morristown has been awarded a pair of grants from the New Jersey Department of Transportation, totalling $270,000, which will be used for the third phase in streetscape improvements on South Street, and for pedestrian safety and accessibility improvements on Lafayette Avenue. $185,000 has been awarded for the streetscape improvement project, while $85,000 has been earmarked for Lafayette Avenue. The funds are part of a $78.4 million local aid grant package announced this week, providing monies for 376 municipalities statewide. The majority of grants were awarded under the Municipal Aid program, with 374 grants totaling $76,126,200. Ten Local Aid Infrastructure Fund (LAIF) grants worth $1,810,000 were awarded. Morristown was one of three …
Monday, February 27, 2012
State aid is up for schools and flat for municipalities, but despite Gov. Christie's generosity, it's still less than before he took office.
Gov. Chris Christie’s budget announcement last week had relatively good news for local officials. Relatively. Aid to schools would rise an average of 9 percent throughout Morris County under the governor’s budget proposal. Every district in Morris would get more state aid in the coming year, with increases ranging from 1 percent in Lincoln Park to 34.7 percent in Mendham Township, which just happens to be Christie’s hometown. The only aid decrease nearby is in Hopatcong, which would lose 6.4 percent of its aid, or $764,000, although there are some even bigger decreases elsewhere in the state: Wildwood Crest, Monmouth Regional and Seaside Park are among those facing double-digit cuts in aid. Any increase in aid is, of course, good news. But…
Thursday, February 23, 2012
District to get $464,305, 8.4 percent, more in 2012-13.
The Morris School District will receive an 8.4 percent increase in state aid in 2012-13. The NJ Department of Education released state aid numbers Thursday afternoon, which show the District getting $5,509,314, an increase of $464,305 last year. According to Superintendent of Schools Thomas Ficarra, the additional money will be used toward tax relief. "We need it and we're very, very grateful to get it," he said, noting the district will give its first presentation of this year's schools budget at the Feb. 27 Board of Education meeting. The Morris Plains Boro District, which sends its students to the Morris School District come high school, is receiving a nearly-21 percent increase in state aid for 2012-13. That district will receive $465…
Mayor: We're happy it didn't decrease.
Morristown will receive $2,868,599 in municipal state aid this year, the same amount it received in 2011. All Morris County muncipalities are receiving municipal state aid numbers identical to what they received last year. Morris Township will again receive $3,279,941 while Morris Plains will get $613,886. As the town continues to work on its FY2012-13 budget, Mayor Tim Dougherty said it was good that the numbers have been released by the state, so that part of the budget process can move forward. "Once we get these state aid numbers plugged in, it gets that part out of the way," he said Thursday. "Until the numbers came out, we didn't know." Another thing Morristown did not know was whether state aid would decrease. The mayor noted that…
I plead the 2nd!
2:07 pm on Saturday, March 2, 2013
If morrisplains can't live within their own tax revenue, then they have a spending problem. each district should support itself. more ›