“We as a board of supervisors cannot be on the hook for every mandate that expires.”
Gloucester County Board of Supervisors’ vice chair Ashley Chriscoe expressed his frustration with state and federal decisions that impact local budgets at Monday night’s budget work session in the colonial courthouse, where members focused their conversation on funding for the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) program/food service support and student device replacements.
County Administrator Carol Steele’s proposed budget would require a 4.3 cent tax increase to support general fund operations, but does not encompass additional school and nonprofit funding allocations that the supervisors indicated they would like to include during a meeting held last Monday, April 21.
“What do we cut out of it when we’re already as lean as can be?” Dr. Robert “JJ” Orth asked about the budget.
The CEP program would require a local contribution of $450,000 and beginning the Chromebook replacement cycle at the school...