Barnegat Light Mayor Ed Wellington said the borough will not join the other Island towns in what he called “a movement to modify the school tax process, structure and formula, to base it more on the number of students per town.” The announcement came during the caucus session of the Dec. 10 council meeting.

Wellington had declined the invitation from Barnegat Light and Joint Council of Taxpayers’ Associations of Long Beach Island President Rich Brodman, he explained, “because, in 1957, the five…