Committee Approves DMDA Budget for 2013

Millburn's Downtown Millburn Development Alliance 2013 blueprint was adopted by the township Tuesday.

The $265,928 Downtown Millburn Development Alliance 2013 budget was approved Tuesday night at Millburn's Township Committee meeting. The initial budget was presented at the Feb. 5 meeting by DMDA's current president Gina Colabelli and past president John Buchholz. The budget came in only $9,000 more than last year's $256,060 figure, even with an increase in sidewalk sweeping and maintenance.  In the Feb. 5 meeting it was reported, sweeping and maintenance went up to $15,000 from last year's $3,750. Committeeman Thomas McDermott also noted in the February meeting the DMDA saved $65,000 because of a reorganization.

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Crisfield: Sequestration's Impact on Millburn Schools' Budget Unknown

Districts across New Jersey await state aid figures this week with uncertainty.

Millburn Schools face the deadline to submit the 2013-2014 budget to the county next week with uncertainty as to whether $85 billion in federal "sequestration" spending cuts will be stopped by Congress before Friday.  Dr. James Crisfield, superintendent of Millburn Schools, said the district will learn its state aid figures on Thursday after Gov. Chris Christie delivers his fiscal year 2014 budget address Tuesday afternoon. The release of the state aid figures triggers a sequence of events related to the budget process, including the Millburn Board of Education approving the proposed school budget on March 6. The budget is due to the county for review next week. New Jersey could lose nearly $12 million in funding for primary and secondary …

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Miss Millburn's Last Board Budget Forum?

Watch the Board of Education forum online here!

Check out any past Board of Education meetings on Hometown Televison.

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School Budget Analyses and Second Cut Sheet Released

Check out Millburn School district's budget documents, including a second cut sheet, a capital spending analysis and a curriculum and instruction budget analysis.

The public was given another detailed look into the district's 2013-14 budget at Monday night's Millburn Board of Education meeting. The documents included in the budget are attached as PDFs and include a second cut sheet, a capital spending analysis and a curriculum and instruction budget analysis.  In addition, to allow a more widespread distribution, the administration released all documents from the meeting on Monday, posting them on the district's website.  The initial proposed budget was introduced at the Jan. 17 meeting. 

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Take a Look At First Draft of School Budget

Millburn Board of Education presented the first draft of 2013-2014 school budget at Jan. 14 meeting.

First Draft of Next Year's Millburn School Budget

Millburn Board of Education presented the first draft of 2013-2014 school budget.

Superintendent Dr. James Crisfield presented the intial 2013-2014 budget to the Board of Education at the Jan. 14 meeting. A more detailed look at the budget will follow at the Jan. 28 meeting.  The draft showed a $1,722, 949 gap that needs to be closed by the end of March.  "A lot of work has gone into this so far to get to this point. Indeed a lot of work needs to get done to get the balance and we have two and a half month to get that way," Crisfield said.  The initial revenues for next year total $78,605,322, up 1.37 percent from last year's $77,539,554. This projection assumes a few variables though: The expenditrues so far from budget managers input total $80,328,271. Crisfield explained salaries, $51,641,652, and benefits, $12,468,…

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School Board Hosts First Public Hearing on Budget

You can tell the community now what you think of district's budget in the comments!

Do You Know Millburn's Business Administrator?

Tim Gordon discusses his role in town, what's in store for Millburn and a little bit about himself.

This week, Business Administrator Tim Gordon sat down to tell the Patch the issues he’s seen in Millburn and why he's spent the last 28 years working in town. Gordon also told the Patch a little bit about himself so residents could get to know who's working in town hall for them. The Patch: How would you describe a normal day? Gordon: There aren’t any normal days. You could have you day planned out, working on various projects and something may happen that will cause you to drop that and move onto something else.  Local government is what I call the retail version of government. Because people walk in and they expect to see you right away. If somebody comes in, that they perceive as a pressing problem, it's just as easy to meet with them …

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Budget Cuts Will Shorten Summer Weeks at Library

Because of budgetary constraints, the Millburn Library will be closed on Sundays all summer.

Because of continued budgetary constraints, the Millburn Free Public Library will be closed on Sundays from June 24 through September 30. The reduction in hours is the result of three years of shrinking budgets from the Township, says Library Director William Swinson. "Despite both high circulation in 2011 (249,934 transactions) and high attendance (236,013 visits), the Library can no longer maintain service-as-usual," Swinson said. It will, however, remain open on Saturdays during August, when it has traditionally been closed.   Since 2010, Swinson said, the township has funded the Library at the minimum state-mandated level based on equalized valuation. During that time, Millburn’s equalized valuation has been declining. In 2010 Library …

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The Stig

2:46 am on Monday, April 30, 2012

Probably not. It would violate their Union contract.   more ›