School, Municipal Officials Discuss: What Next?

More than 600 school board members, municipal officials, school administrators and members of the press joined in the April 22 interactive conference call, “Your School Budget Has Been Defeated: What’s Next?” The conference, run by the New Jersey School Boards Association and the New Jersey State League of Municipalities, featured discussion on the impact of a defeated budget and the process that districts and local governments must follow after a budget defeat.

Teleconference participants included Bret Schundler, New Jersey’s education commissioner; Neil K. Cramer, Sussex Executive County School Business Administrator; John Donahue, executive director of the New Jersey Association of School Business Officials; Andrew Lucas, mayor of Manalapan Township, Joseph Monzo, chief financial officer of South Brunswick Township; and Terry Sierchio, business administrator of the Hopatcong school district. NJSBA Director of Legal & Policy Services Michael F. Kaelber, was the discussion moderator.

Audio and the accompanying slideshow are available under the "What's New" section of NJSBA's website.