CRANBURY: School budget passes as incumbents are re-elected

By David Kilby, Staff Writer
three incumbents were returned to office Cranbury ‘s Board of Education election Wednesday.
Jennifer Cooke won with 367 votes, Kevin Fox won with 328 votes, and Evelyn Spann won with 317 votes. Promod Chivate received 292 votes.
The $15,482,513 budget for 2011-12 passed 333 to 180.  The spending plan is 2.6 percent lower than 2010-11’s budget with a tax levy of $14,941,270.  The tax rate in the budget is 98.09 cents per $100 dollars of assessed valuation, a .387-cent increase from last year. The owner of a house assessed at the average of $608,331 will pay $5,966.99 per year, $235.66 more than the 2010-11 school year.