Today is New Jersey’s 12th– and last — Election Day

Good morning, New Jersey.

It’s Election Day, again.  Today marks the twelfth and final election of 2024 in New Jersey.

Voters in Burlington Township and Haddonfield will go to the polls to vote in special school referendum elections.

Voters must approve the proposal to qualify for state funding of at least 40% of some school construction costs through annual debt service assistance. State law permits four free-standing special school referendums each year to help school districts pass the referendums with the lowest possible turnout.

In Burlington Township, voters will consider a $27.45 million initiative to renovate four local schools.  If passed, the state would assume $10.98 million of the costs.

Voters in Haddonfield are being asked to approve a $46.69 million renovation plan for five schools and a local athletic complex.    The state would pay $10.6 million of those costs.

Fourteen school districts and seventeen municipalities held special school referendum elections on September 17.

School improvement initiatives in Bay Head, Hillsdale, Northfield, Randolph, Stafford, Tenafly, and the Hopewell Valley Regional School District passed, but voters rejected them in Collingswood, Dennis, Little Silver, and Middle.

Voters in Scotch Plains and Fanwood rejected granted the school board permission to acquire “by purchase, gift, or condemnation” property in Fanwood connected to an $81.4 million renovation and improvement plan; the state would fund $4 million of the expenditure by a vote of 3,220-3,520.

Greenwich Township and Stow Creek voted to create a shared PK-8 regional school district, 400-34.  In Greenwich, the vote was 152-11; Stow Creek approved the measure, 248-23.