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School Budget Reaches 'Ceiling' in Waldwick, N.J.
Byline: Brian Aberback
Apr. 25--WALDWICK, N.J. -- Borough and school officials cited tough economic times, low voter turnout, and a controversial decision to install artificial turf on the junior-senior high school football field as possible reasons the school budget was defeated last week for the second time in three years.
"I don't think that people feel that the schools are being run poorly," said Mayor Rick Vander Wende. "I think it's very much the idea that some sort of glass ceiling was hit as to what people can take in terms of being taxed."
Vander Wende and the Borough Council will review the rejected $20 million school budget and have until May 19 to decide how much, if any, to cut from it. The school board may appeal any cuts to the state education commissioner.
The budget, which included an 8.5 percent tax increase, was defeated by a vote of 655-538. Twenty-two percent, or 1,274, of the borough's 5,918 registered voters cast ballots.
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