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Byline: Bonnie Delaney
Mar. 4--How would breaking up the Central Regional school district affect taxes in the five towns that make up the 2,173-student district -- Seaside Park, Seaside Heights, Island Heights, Ocean Gate and Berkeley? The answer depends on which study you look at.
Only one thing is certain. If the district is dissolved, Seaside Park taxpayers would pay less than the $48,313 per pupil it now costs to send 62 students to the Central Regional high school and middle school -- and Berkeley taxpayers would probably pay more. But just how much more is uncertain.
"There is no doubt that Seaside Park would save money on taxes," said David Trethaway, superintendent of the regional district.
That is the only fact experts who conducted three of the studies on the dissolution of the district or the withdrawal of Seaside Park from the district agree upon. A fourth study, by Island Heights, encourages its residents to investigate the issues and arrive at their own conclusions.
The April 2005 study that Donald E. Beineman and…