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Quotes mentioning budget shortfalls, from the most recent New Jersey meetings we have transcripts for. Show all topics.
1:42:31 …this budget and we the people have a say about it. Like for example, how is it that we've had vacancies since 2021? There's a hiring freeze but it's in the budget.Play from 1:42:31
2:27:01 So, if we're we're doing the things that uh um they say we need to do to close the structural deficit, um then can we be rewarded rather than just kind of uh penalized for non-compliance?Play from 2:27:01
56:31 So I want to start by saying that back on June 4th, all the unions were called into a meeting and we were told that there was going to be furloughs, layoffs across all the unions, that the events were being cut and that there was a need to change our health care.Play from 56:31
Jersey City School District, NJ ·
59:24 From investment companies to pension profiteers to consultants to the medical group to charter school chains. I can say here what we've done this year, and I had the ability, I had the opportunity to sit with human resources and the superintendent and a lot of other staff to come to zero layoffs as a miracle.Play from 59:24
1:16:32 So, what's that? 2 years construction, 3 years. So, we now have to pl I'm saying I'm doing this public math here. We we have to figure out how to p that budget deficit and not eat away at that surplus for the next 2 three years.Play from 1:16:32
2:12:32 And I know in the township's case I heard that sometimes letting layoffs in staff is also a, a possibility and it's not one that anyone wants to face.Play from 2:12:32
6:17 Um and correct me if I'm wrong, one of the things that was spoke talked about was the reserve fund and how important that is to cover things like snow storms and the associated expenses with that, um manpower, materials and so forth.Play from 6:17
1:04:11 And when I heard our board president, Chris Aveta proposed this triple school closure plan as an answer to a 1% budget deficit, I thought about how that proposal could be analogous in my line of work, which also involves making decisions…Play from 1:04:11
Montclair Town School District, NJ ·
2:07:11 But, you know, as a board, we essentially realize that there's a structural deficit here in New Jersey, and although we can't magically change it, we want to stand as a board and ask for changes with our governor and legislators to, you know, affect to change on that.Play from 2:07:11
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