Telling those people who cannot afford their taxes to move is not the answer - Taxpayers are beginning to demonstrate their indignation to New Jersey's ignominious reputation of having the highest real estate tax rate in the nation. Although in most towns, more than half of the total tax is a school tax , no such indignation seems to apply to school budgets.
Benefits remain far above those within the private sector and private sector workers suffer with stagnated or even decreasing incomes. The time has come to correct this situation of inordinate school teacher raises. See Daily Record.
Six candidates (Steve Cohen (i), Frank W. Cooney, Matthew Kayne, Timothy Lindert (i), Michael J. Palma (i), Paul Przetak), including the three incumbents (i), have filed to run for Board of Education on April 15.
For the better part of 23 years, Rich Vuyosevich has been coaching varsity boys basketball at Montville High School. This year, the only way he will be a part of the Mustangs basketball program is as a spectator. He's not happy about it.
Vuyosevich's contract to coach boys basketball was denied in a meeting of the Montville Board of Education in late October. The board has since hired a new coach, Paul Palek, to lead the varsity team, which began practices after Thanksgiving. Vuyosevich was not given a reason for why his contract wasn't approved.
The refusal for Vuyosevich's $8,000 coaching contract to be renewed is puzzling for a variety of reasons. The biggest may be that representatives of the Montville Coaches Association were told that Vuyosevich was recommended by the school's athletic director, principal and superintendent, but he was still not rehired. See Daily Record.
