School District Opts for Online Budget Newsletter

In an effort to be "green," the Millburn Township School District is posting this year's budget newsletter on its website for residents to review online. It is also sending it out to everyone in its email database and to media outlets like Millburn-Short Hills Patch and the Item. (Patch has also posted the newsletter here so you don't have to go the district's website.)

Residents are encouraged to familiarize themselves with the newsletter and the budget documents and come for their last opportunity to ask questions or make comments about the budget before the school board votes on it and sends it to the state.

This year's proposed budget, including debt service, is $85 million, with

The budget calls for a tax levy of 0.65 percent, which is a reduction by half from the 2011-12 tax rate of 1.35 percent.

, there will be on the budget so, district officials remind you, Monday's meeting will truly be your last chance to be heard.

You can hear more about the budget in an interview with Superintendent Dr. James Crisfield, and Lise Chapman, Board of Education Finance Chair, on Hometowne TV and its website for video on demand. 

The Public Hearing on the budget is on March 26 – the last chance for public comment before the final budget is sent to the state. The meeting will be at the at 7:45 p.m. Monday.