School board members stepped back Monday night from implying that part of the school’s budget squeeze might be due to an increase of tax appeals in the township, according to hillsboroughbeacon.com.
With two governing body members sitting in the audience, the board agreed that while township ratables had dropped by $120 million, only about $17 million was due to tax appeals. The rest represented a lagging real estate market that hasn’t fully recovered since the Great Recession began in 2008, according to hillsboroughbeacon.com.
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