At 12:10 AM today, at the end of a meeting that began at 7:00 PM on Wednesday, the combined councils of Bridgewater Township and Raritan Borough agreed to reduce the budget of the Bridgewater-Raritan School District by $1,037,000.
The elements of the cuts are as follows: $600,000 in savings realized when retiring senior staff is replaced by younger lower-paid staff; a $250,000 additional reduction in the district’s reserve account; a $150,000 savings through elimination of the Spanish language/cultural program at the 3rd and 4th grade levels, while retaining it at the 5th and 6th grade levels; and a reduction of $37,000 in the postage account.
The six-member Raritan Borough Council voted unanimously on a formal resolution for these cuts. The five-member Bridgewater Township Council agreed as well, with only one member, Christine Henderson Rose dissenting from the majority.
Bridgewater needs to have its attorney draft a formal resolution which will be voted upon at tonight’s regularly scheduled meeting, where the official voting outcome is not expected to vary from this morning’s poll.
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