The Joint Council of Taxpayers Associations of Long Beach Island is defending its aggregated comparison of the Long Beach Island Consolidated School District’s two educational facilities ahead of next month’s referendum to renovate one of the buildings. That vote is less than two weeks away.

In a five-page document, the JCTAresponds tocriticism by the Friends of LBI Schools group, which releasedits own rebuttal to the council’s Nov. 4 comparison a week ago.