Celebrating 50 Years of Tradition & Success!

1. Capital Improvements Nov. 8th Bond Referendum October 20, 2016 Celebrating 50 Years of Tradition & Success!

2. What we learned since March 8th • Existing Stadium Complex Conditions & Current State • Other Conference Comparison • District Solutions – Proposed Capital Improvements • Stadium Complex Improvement Site Plan • New Transportation Garage Bays – Renovation of Existing Storage Building • New Pole Barn for storage • Cost Analysis

3. “Do not bundle so much… get a sense from the community as where they feel the money is best used & rank them.” • “You should have gone for what was really needed (i.e. the Track). I would have voted for essential items!” • “Times are tough… I would be in favor of supporting the track.” • April 2016

4. 440 survey participants said I’m inclined to support the referendum if it includes the following: • Synthetic Football Field (34%) • New Ticket Booths (45%) • Synthetic field hockey/lacrosse/soccer (48%) • Expansion of Field House (51%) • New Track & Field House (53%) • New Bus Garage, replacing field (54%) • Support the referendum if modified (61%) • New 8-Lane Track (80%) • Pleased with communication efforts (83%) • April 2016

5. And state mandates…. • Everything in the March 8th referendum is OUT, with the exception of the 8-Lane 400m Rubber Track; renovations to field events. • The Bus Garage is a modified plan when compared to the March 8th Referendum.

7. 6-Lane with failing rubber surface track used for Physical Education classes and interscholastic athletics. • Inadequate track and field facilities including long jump, pole vault, javelin, discus and shot put. • Natural grass field for physical education and football • Inadequate storage for buildings & grounds department • Inadequate garage space for bus fleet

8. Track was built in 1992 and is a latex surface. Despite a number of repairs the track has delaminated beyond repair Track has become a tripping hazard and is proven to be unsafe for competition

9. In an October 2014 email to Kingsway's Athletic Director the Rules Interpreter wrote, “the track, pole vault runway, and long jump runway Kingsway, have delaminated to the point of being unsafe for competition… conditions were deteriorating and that something needed to be done before the facility was deemed unsafe for competition.”

10. Fall 2014 – Track was deemed unsafe for competition by the Rules Interpreter from the NJTFOA (NJ Track & Field Officials Association.) • We reached out to NJSIAA’s (New Jersey State Inter-scholastic Athletic Association) State Rules Interpreter in October 2014 for clarification and were informed that the Southern Chapter had authority to prevent home competition.

11. How are the NJ Track & Field Officials Association (NJTFOA) and NJ State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA) related?

12. Convert 6-lane rubber surface running track to 8-lane 400m rubberized surface running track. • Renovate long jump, pole vaul, discus, javelin and shot put areas. • Replace natural grass field • Convert existing storage barn into transportation garage. • Add new storage building next to existing pole barn near Field K.

20. Why is the “fair funding” argument unrelated to our need to improve our facilities? Bond Referendum November 8, 2016

21. State Aid Summary 01-08-16

22. “the School District’s position is not only misguided, but likely damaging to our joint efforts to obtain our fair share of State school funding.” – Mayor Dale Archer, East Greenwich The State continues to shift the burden to fund our schools onto taxpayers While Student Enrollment grew by 38% in 8 years. 01-08-16

23. The State continues to shift the burden to fund our schools onto taxpayers 01-08-16

24. If not now, when? Kingsway’s fair share of funding continues to be reduced (57.7 to 43.3%). Do we ignore our infrastructure needs? Do we ignore what our students need? Do we sit back and wait for the State to fund us fairly? The Fair Funding argument doesn’t change the fact that we have a track we can’t compete on, a transportation facility inadequate for our size, and not enough field space for our students. 01-08-16

25. The Fair Funding argument doesn’t change the fact that we have a track we can’t compete on, a transportation facility inadequate for our size, and not enough field space for our students. 01-08-16

26. If we resurfaced the track, a short-term solution, this would be funded out of our operating budget. The operating budget pays teacher salaries. At an estimated cost to repair at $600,000, this would be equivalent to 12 teacher salaries. Should we reduce our operating budget to make this repair? 01-08-16

27. If we purchased the East Greenwich public works garage, we would again do so from the operating budget. This is estimated to cost $2 million, financed through our operating budget over 10 years at an annual payment of approx. $200,000. This would be equivalent to 12 teacher salaries. 01-08-16

28. By going to referendum, we spare the additional burden on our operating budget. A budget that demonstrates Kingsway as the lowest spending regional 7-12 District in the state of New Jersey. Truth is… Now is the time to prioritize these facility needs so that we can continue to prioritize our educational programs. 01-08-16

29. The Fight of Fair Funding is a decade old, and resulted in an increase to our operating budget by $921,670 in 2012, just after Kingsway voters approved a $32.2 million referendum to expand classrooms to accommodate our enrollment growth. The irony is that the only time we received additional aid came on the heals of a referendum almost three times larger that today’s proposal. A referendum that largely ignored athletic, track, and transportation needs. 01-08-16