Berkeley Heights BOE Budget Update: Debt Relief Offsets Rising Health Costs, Final Budget Down 2.85%
We received an update from BHPSNJ Business Administrator Jennifer Nicholson prior to tonight’s BOE meeting. The body of her email...
New Jersey’s Transportation Tab Is Local, Total, and Coming Due
NJ’s 04/28/26 announcement connected to transportation might seem like another big price tag connected to a narrow issue. This specific...
New Providence 2026-27 School Budget: Tax Levy Outpaces Spending as Fixed Costs Surge
Well we finally got the rest of the Budgets from the DOE just as NP posted it’s agenda one day...
NJ Revenue: The Warning Lights are Starting to Glow
The latest revenue update from the NJ Dept. of Treasury shows an increase in total collections for March compared to...
Benefit Burden – How Rising Health Costs Are Reshaping Madison’s School Budget
Like with every other preliminary budget in this series, please keep in mind that the numbers Madison starts with here...
John’s Notes on 04/28 New Providence Council Meeting Agenda
Tomorrow’s Council meeting has a lot of material to cover- we’re going to focus on what’s most impactful… Resolution 2026-153...
The 21st Briefing: PILOT Gaps, Climate Rules, and the DOE “Black Box”
We look at the high-stakes FY2027 New Jersey budget hearings, breaking down how state funding decisions for education, housing, and...
Mountainside’s $457 Margin: Living on the Edge of the CAP
Mountainside was one of the more annoying budgets to get – there were no top line items on the agenda...
This Week At NJ21st: Budget Season Rolls On, Shaky Jobs Data and the $1.7M School Funding Gap
Starting in Trenton we tackle the ongoing discussions on a $60.7B Budget being stress-tested by Tax Relief, Transit Demands and...
The Berkeley Heights PILOT Problem Part 3: The ‘Same Taxpayer’ Fallacy
The third in our series Correcting the Council-Aligned Narrative Misinforming Our Community So one of the more simplistic arguments being...