The tentative 2023-24 school year budget was announced at the March 20 meeting of the Pinelands Regional Board of Education. Taxpayers should be pretty happy, excepting residents of Little Egg Harbor and especially Tuckerton.

Business Administrator Amanda Miller told the board that the proposed general fund budget for the coming school year is $37,143,944, up from $36,579,611 for 2022-23. Of that figure, $22,201,055 will come from the district’s taxpayers, a 2% increase from last year.