Polls Open for Annual School Elections

Polling locations for today’s school elections will remain the same as previous years, though the town gained four new voting districts earlier this year.

Instead, residents participating in the school elections will cast their votes at the Hillsborough Municipal Building, Hillsborough Elementary School, Sunnymead Elementary School, Woods Road Elementary School and Amsterdam Elementary School.

Polls open at 2 p.m. and close at 9 p.m. today.  Voters will be asked to vote on the district’s $110 million school budget, as well as selecting three residents to serve three-year Board of Education terms.

 Candidates include , , , , and .

  The budget itself is a $3,478,817 increase over last year’s $107,200,883 budget, which amounts to an about 3 percent increase. However, the tax levy increases by $1,536,889 —about 2 percent, which is the state cap on tax levies—over the $76,676,057 generated last year.

Of the $78,212,946 from local taxes, $77,401,727 will come from Hillsborough taxpayers, while Millstone Borough taxpayers will contribute $811,219, a total increase of $15,906 for Millstone taxpayers. 

County-mandated revaluations should have the tax rate decrease from $2 per $100 of assessed value to $1.45 per $100 of assessed value; however, residents could see tax bills increase, decrease or remain constant.

  It also includes updates to existing technology and improvements to curriculum.

However, if voters do not approve the budget, the district will be looking at any areas for savings, after the Township Committee analyzes it.

Patch will have updates on the election throughout the day.