Brick Hearings On School Budget, Township Budget On Tap

BRICK, NJ — It's budget week in Brick Township, with the school district and the township set to approve their finalized budgets.

The Township Council is set to meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the municipal building, 401 Chambers Bridge Road, where it will hold a hearing on the 2023 budget. Portions of the budget, which has a zero percent increase in the property tax levy, have been presented at council meetings over the last two months.

The Board of Education is set to meet at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Professional Development center in the district administration building, 101 Hendrickson Ave.

The school district began the 2023-24 budget presentation faced with a $2.5 million state aid cut under S2, but subsequent responses from state Sen. Vin Gopal and other legislators resulted in the passing of a bill to reduce the aid cuts.

For Brick, that change, called emergency supplemental state aid, is $1,677,892. The school budget hearing will detail the changes resulting from that extra aid.