Township of Ocean Board of Education State Aid 2011-2012 $652,905 - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Township of Ocean Board of Education

State Aid 2011-2012

• $652,905 of state aid has been restored
• 5.5 million dollars state aid decrease last year
• State aid has declined from 20% to 11% in 10

years (as a percentage of the school budget)

• Ocean Township receiving LESS 2011–2012 state

aid than in 1991 over 20 years ago.

 State Health Benefit

Plan

 Special Education  Pension (PERS)  $516,421 increase  $175,832 private school

tuition for mandated out of district student placement

 $250,500 new staff

additions due to mandated class sizes

 $100,941 Support staff

2011 - 2012 Budget Positive Factors

Capital facility upgrades:

• Upgrades to HS auditorium lighting and sound

systems, athletic facilities, and TOIS athletic fields

• Portions of the roofs at Wayside and Wanamassa
• High School cafeteria & stairwell windows, repairs

to the track

• Various HVAC replacements, paving and curbing

district wide

• Replacement of damaged playground equipment

• Reinstate education technology initiatives:
• Teacher laptop initiative in grades 9-12
• Various document cameras, responders, data

projectors and Smart Boards

• Replace servers & switches that are over 9

years old

• Install wireless access at the High

School in connection with the teacher laptop initiative

Personnel

• Add 3 part time and 1 full time special education

resource center teachers (OTES, Wayside, HS & TOIS)

• Add 1 full time special education LLD

teacher at Wayside school

• Add 1 TOIS basic skills teacher
• Add 1 OTES and 1 fifth grade teacher
• Reduce 3 elementary teachers

at Wayside and Wanamassa due to enrollment shifts

• The Ocean Township General Fund school

tax increase is estimated to be 3%.

• The average assessed home of $404,000 will see an

increase of $146.40 annually or $12.20 on a monthly basis.

• The Loch Arbour General Fund school tax

increase is estimated to be 15%.

• The average assessed home of $1,094,000 will see an

increase of $1,785.56 annually.

59.7 77.2 93.5 65.6 81.9 96.8 59.9 80.9 97.3

20 40 60 80 100 120 LAL Math Science

State DFG District

82.9 69 83.3 88.4 72.5 89.4 91.2 91.8 90.8

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 LAL Math Science

State DFG TOIS

88 75 92.1 77.9 93.8 85.2

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 LAL Math

State DFG OTHS

480 485 490 495 500 505 510 515 520 Verbal Essay Math

498 498 519 495 497 514

494 497 514

OTHS NEW JERSEY NJ DFG

Advanced Placement Participation Data

0.0% 10.0% 20.0% 30.0% 40.0% 50.0% 2009 2010 27.9% 35.4% 19.0% 19.9%

Ocean Township HS New Jersey

Newsweek Magazine ranks Ocean Township High School in the top 6% of the nation’s secondary schools ! NJ Monthly Magazine ranks Ocean Township High School in the top 100 !

• School budget goes to both municipalities for review
• If both Ocean Township and Loch Arbour agree to

mandate a decrease in the budget, cuts will be made by the school board up to the amount specified

• If both municipalities can not agree to an amount to

cut, the entire budget goes to the state for their review. The state then makes the determination for cuts

VOTE -- Wednesday, April 27th 7:00am to 9:00pm

• Seniors now have until June 1 to apply
• If eligible this program will FREEZE

property taxes for the applicant

• If 65 years old or disabled you may

qualify for this program

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