Are McCormac's Pilot Programs and Gifts to the BOE raising taxes?

The NJ State school funding figures for 2013-2014 have just been released by state official.  Woodbridge will be getting a whopping $71,504.00 increase. (That's the number, for details, go to http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2013/03/no_district_will_have_state_ai....  and scroll down to find Woodbridge).  Carteret Boro will recieve $499,999.00.  Perth Amboy gets $2,435,500.00.

Apparently, having both a State Senator (Joe Vitale) and an Assemblyman (Craig Coughlin) officed right here in Woodbridge doesn't help much when it comes to getting state funds for the Woodbridge school district.  Nor does it seem to mean much when it comes to saving the Woodbridge Developmental Center.

As if a $71,504.00 (a mere .003%) increase in state funding isn't bad enought, consider how much less the school district is getting from tax ratables, thanks to John McCormac and his loyal minions on the town council.  Oh, Mac and Company love using the money from Pilot Programs and other municipal tax coffers to give gifts to the schools (great PR), but those do not decrease taxes at the municipal or the school district level, it increases them!  Now, consider all the money from solar panels that isn't coming into at least one Fire District (#1), the township or the school district, and then wonder how the costs of installing and maintaining those solar panels which, except for the fire district, were funded by municipal and school bonds, will be covered.  How, higher taxes, that's how!

Most people in Woodbridge, and beyond, know John McCormac hates being considered #2 in anyway or at anything.  So who would be surprised to learn many of his efforts, and those of his Woodbridge based political cohorts, may be going toward ensuring NJ (and along with it, Woodbridge) goes to #1, at least the next time the Fiscal Times rates the states?  See:http://money.msn.com/taxes/c_galleryregular.aspx?cp-documentid=250574718

Keep spending and upping those taxes John and friends, and you'll certainly make #1 on a lot of lists!