Garbage Collection Reigns Supreme Over School Funding?
According to Mayor Wilson, "It is also important to me to maintain the level of services our residents receive here," Wilson said. "Taxes are not cheap anywhere in New Jersey. It's important to maintain good services" such as garbage collection, street sweeping and leaf pickup. "Our services here in the borough are second to none. Some may take these services for granted, but it is important to us that these same services are not always handled as well in other towns."
Some take the "Quality of Life" issue of having a Great Public School system for granted. The Rug Mill Towers Project has imposed the added burden of $500,000.00 to $600,000.00 in operational costs to our schools, yet there is ZERO property tax collected as a result of this RCA program.
DO NOT LOSE SIGHT that the Rug Mill is a contributing factor as to WHY our schools have fallen bellow State Through and Efficient funding standards. The combined effect of state flat funding and how our Municipal Government has imposed a significant operating deficit on the Borough Schools has establish our school funding problems. NOW every Borough Home owner is paying for this shortfall through ever rising property Tax and this causes more loses to our schools!
Freehold Borough is on record with receiving over $11,000,000.00 RCA dollars. By FAR Freehold Borough is the states leading recipient of RCA Funds according the latest COAH published report(http://www.state.nj.us/dca/coah/annualreport/2002_2003.pdf).
Mr. Kane claims RCA has been a “benefit” to our community because on the issue of RCA Funding Mr. Kane Said, “the borough has benefited from (RCA) money it has received over the years from other towns through regional contribution agreements, the councilman said it is time for others to jump in now”.
OK I Jumped in, and now you see why Mr. Kane is ducking a debate
According to the October 30, 2007 News Transcript, Wilson said the council has "worked hard behind the scenes with our state legislators to increase funds to the school district. Although the schools did receive some of what they needed, they (the legislators) promised us that the shortfall would be made up by the next school year."
ANYONE WHO HAS WORN A "YELLOW SHIRT" OR HAS TRAVELED TO TRENTON KNOWS, THIS MAYORS COMMENTS ARE INACCURATE!
