The polls for the local school elections have been open since 7:00 am this morning and will remain so until 9:00 pm this evening. If you haven’t been able to cast your vote yet, please get out there and do so despite the damp, rainy weather. The community needs your participation.
If recent voter turnout remains true to results of the last decade, the Bridgewater-Raritan School District will be lucky to see around 4200 registered voters cast their ballots. That is approximately half of some of the turnouts of the 90’s, when there was greater and more diverse community involvement in the education process.
Ongoing efforts to increase voter input by moving the New Jersey school candidate and budget elections to the fall have been consistently unsuccessful, despite the best efforts of the legislature. One proposal would have done so, but at the expense of taking school budget approval away from the citizenry.
I still think that involving Bridgewater Township and Raritan Borough representatives with a review of the Bridgewater-Raritan school budget is not only a positive check, but results in a more thorough representation of the will of the entire Bridgewater-Raritan community.
The only thing standing between you and that review is the nature of your vote on the budget today.
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