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Article: School Budget Reaches 'Ceiling' in Waldwick, N.J.
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- April 25, 2004
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By Brian Aberback, The Record, Hackensack, N.J. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Apr. 25--WALDWICK, N.J. -- Borough and school officials cited tough economic times, low voter turnout, and a controversial decision to install artificial turf on the junior-senior high school football field as possible reasons the school budget was defeated last week for the second time in three years.
"I don't think that people feel that the schools are being run poorly," said Mayor Rick Vander Wende. "I think it's very much the idea that some sort of glass ceiling was hit as to what people can take in terms of being taxed."
Vander Wende and the Borough ...