Moved School Elections Saved Nearly $1M in NJ
Cost to promote school budgets not necessary, dropping campaign spending, ELEC says.
For the first time in New Jersey’s history, many municipalities had school board candidates on the General Election ballot this November after Gov. Chris Christie signed legislation in January allowing school boards to move their voting times. The move, it seems, has paid off big time locally, according to an analysis by the New Jersey Election Law Enforcement Commission (ELEC). ELEC’s analysis shows spending by candidates was down nearly $1 million from 2011 to 2012 in New Jersey, from $1,532,896 to $597,664. The law gave school districts an incentive to move elections by not having to post their budgets for public vote as long as it fell within the 2-percent annual tax cap. More than 86-percent of the state’s districts moved their …
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Jennifer Dowd
4:52 pm on Saturday, January 19, 2013
I appreciate these polls, but as a community we need to organize if we are going to keep our right to vote on the school budget. With the superintendent's base-less rationale for moving the vote to November, the board is probably going to vote to move it... that is my inclination from what I heard and saw when I attended that last board meeting. It makes their lives a lot easier. Our vote is the … more ›