VINELAND - City Council cut the school district's budget by $406,751 on Tuesday, leaving school officials to decide exactly where those cuts will be made.
Cumberland County freeholders plan to lay off 55 more employees and take other money-saving steps to balance their budget, county officials said.
Municipalities throughout the area have developed numerous ways to deal with their budget crises.
VINELAND - The Board of Education approved the hiring of six new principals Wednesday night.
VINELAND - Board of Education member Brian DeWinne defied a threat of ethics censure Wednesday and publicized his plan to balance the city school budget without layoffs or program cuts.
VINELAND - Vineland police officers and City Council members clashed verbally Tuesday night after police learned city officials were preparing the groundwork for layoffs.
VINELAND - School board member Brian DeWinne has proposed balancing the school budget using anticipated surpluses and spending cuts that would eliminate the need to cut jobs or programs.
MILLVILLE - Even with the ultimate fate of its Urban Enterprise Zone unknown, and its current existence in a kind of bureaucratic limbo, the city continues to avail itself of the program's resources, at least in theory.
MILLVILLE - The Millville Commission approved a resolution Tuesday that will likely lead to the layoffs of 15 city employees and a reduced workweek that could close the doors of City Hall for one day each week.
MILLVILLE - The Millville School District will lay off 43 employees, including 28 teachers, under a spending plan approved Thursday by the Board of Education that calls for no tax increase.
VINELAND - Sara Cano sat quietly in the back of Landis Middle School's auditorium Tuesday night with a small sign posted to her shirt asking that school board members not cut the district's adult education program.
Vineland school officials expect a big enough crowd for tonight's school budget hearing that they booked a bigger venue to host it.
Davina Sanderlin planned for the day she would lose her job at Shieldalloy Metallurgical Corp., because she knew it would happen eventually. The aluminum-manufacturing company had closed its Newfield, Gloucester County, plant and was laying off its office employees one after another.
VINELAND - Vineland School District officials are considering cutting 82 of the district's 2,038 employees as part of their proposed budget.
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