New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 6A - EDUCATION › Chapter 23A - FISCAL ACCOUNTABILITY, EFFICIENCY AND BUDGETING PROCEDURES › Subchapter 9 - EXECUTIVE COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT BUDGET REVIEW PROCEDURES › Section 6A:23A-9.6 - Appeal of executive county superintendent budget reductions

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 14, July 15, 2024
(a) Any
				formal budgetary action of the executive county superintendent may be appealed
				directly to the Commissioner, who shall render a decision within 15 days of the
				receipt of the appeal. If the Commissioner fails to issue a decision within 15
				days of the filing of an appeal, the budgetary action of the executive county
				superintendent shall be deemed approved.
(b) The procedure for appealing a budget
				reduction(s) made by the executive county superintendent for administrative
				inefficiency or excess non-instructional costs shall be as follows:
1. A district board of education in which the
				general fund tax levy proposed in the base budget has been reduced or a
				separate proposal(s) has been reduced or rejected shall submit, within five
				business days of the written notice of said action, to the Commissioner the
				following information:
i. The complete
				line-item budget as originally submitted to the executive county superintendent
				and all supporting documentation and narrative explanations, including any
				copies of additional spending proposals;
ii. An electronic schedule in Microsoft Excel
				with a list of the line items reduced by the executive county superintendent
				showing in separate columns:
(1) Budget line
				number;
(2) Account
				description;
(3) Account
				number;
(4) Actual audited
				expenditure of prior year budget;
(5) Expenditure as of February 1 of the
				prebudget year (current year);
(6)
				Originally proposed expenditure for the budget year;
(7) Amount of executive county superintendent
				reduction; and
(8) Proposed
				expenditure after executive county superintendent reduction;
iii. A copy of the executive
				county superintendent's written explanation for each line-item
				reduction;
iv. The school
				district's written itemized argument(s) for the restoration of all or part of
				each line-item reduction accompanied by available supporting
				documentation;
v. The numbers of
				professional administrative and professional non-instructional staff by
				line-item account during the current school year and projected staff for the
				ensuing school year, together with the reason(s) for any increase or
				decrease;
vi. The numbers of
				nonprofessional administrative and nonprofessional non-instructional staff by
				line-item account during the current school year and projected staff for the
				ensuing school year, together with the reason(s) for any increase or
				decrease;
vii. Pupil enrollment by
				grade for the school district as of the preceding June 30, the last school day
				prior to the preceding October 16, and as projected for October of the ensuing
				school year;
viii. Salaries or
				salary schedules for all administrative and non-instructional staff by job
				title; and
ix. The number of
				schools and classrooms in each school.