Edison Board of Mythomania Election Nov. 3rd - Column 1 or Column 2 - Blah, Blah, Blah

 Seriously, how many times are we going to go through this political cesspool election? Shi vs. Joshi tickets on who can misspend or waste the money the best? Tickets with people who come out of nowhere and probably have never or rarely have been to a Board of Mythomania meeting. Not a necessity but should tell you something. But each has all the answers, albeit mostly in AI.

Be that as it may, No doubt Shi's decade long tenure has kept the school district moving forward with his dictatorial and inept leadership.

With the inability to control Out-of-Control $pending while pissing away all that State Aid money and nonsense piecemeal plans while still not properly addressing the Overcrowding - look to the incompetence of Jerry 'ReferenDumb' Shi, aka Mr. Shi-shed, Mr. Pac-Man and his band of P's in a Pod for bringing us to this point.

They need to go if you want to get some proper Oversight on monies now approaching $400 million.

Seriously, as someone who has been following this dysfunctional school board for decades, I've had enough of watching nothing change but the political makeup of the board and all that money being misspent and wasted. So, I'll give this one try.

Do yourselves a favor if you really want to get back control of all that money and make sure the money is Spent in the Best interests of the Kids, then simply write me in on Nov. 3rd. One person can make a difference especially one who's been following this dysfunctional political cesspool of a board for years and knows the numbers better than anyone.

Just a thought - your choice.

Looks like Final 2026 Edison Property Tax Rate of 6.233 is up 28.2-Cents or 4.7% over Last Year's 5.951

 Well, looks like the Final 2026 Property Tax Rate will be 6.233, which is up 4.5-Cents over the 3rd Qtr. Estimate of 6.188. If you live in that imaginary home assessed at $186,900, then your total property taxes will be $11,658.96 for an increase of $526.54 over last year's $11,122.42 and an additional increase of $83.59 over the 3rd Qtr. estimate.

If you don't know how this budgeting nonsense works - they use an Estimate in the 3rd Qtr if they don't have all the budgets done (and it's usually the Muni-budget that take 8 months into the budget year to come up with one) and any adjustment will be put into the 4th Qtr.

Here's the breakdown for that imaginary home assessed at $186,900:

If you don't live in that imaginary home assessed at $186,900, then take your homes assessed value divided by 100 and multiply that number by 6.233 and that will give you your total 2026 taxes and by .282 to get your tax increase.

Anyhoo, you live in a politically-corrupt town so you get the type of governance and unexplained, unjustified or supported tax increases that you deserve.

Some More about the Latest Edison School District Salary File

 Well, the latest Edison School District Salary File (August 18, 2026) had 2,236 employees for a total of $190,032,221. Interesting stat - some 935 employees out of the total 2,236 or 42% make a $100,000 or more and represent 60% or $113,927,538 of the total dollars of $190,032,221.

Here's how the employees and dollars fall by location:

Anyhoo, you should pay attention to the number of employees by title and department in this file since they won't show you that information in their annual school budgets. And lets not forget the 'Staffing Shell Game' they play and don't bother disclosing to you and lets not forget about 'Breakage' that all adds to the Bloat in the largest expenditure in the school budgets.

Edison School District Salary File - August 18, 2026

 Well, usually try and OPRA the Salary File from the Edison School District every six months or so just to see where we stand with the number of employees since their school budgets do not provide any headcount analysis by department. 

Just received this current Edison School District Salary file. This Excel file has 2,236 employees listed for a total salary of $190,032,221. The file is by name, location department and title and the table added can be drilled down by any of these column headings to see anything you wish.

Here you can see the Salaries and Heads broken down by salary range along with the Average, Median, High and Low Salaries as well as a Quick Salary Lookup:

Here's a listing of Top 20 Salaries in the file:

Here's a listing of the Supervisors in the file:

Here's a listing of Guidance Services in the file:

This is an Excel file and anyone who wishes to have it is welcome to it. Just drop me an email.

Anyhoo, information is knowledge - hope it helps.

The Edison Township Education Association (ETEA) 2026 Annual BOE Candidates Night

 I was informed that the Annual ETEA's BOE Candidates Night will be held in late September 2026 and will revert to the format used during Covid.

All Candidates will be invited into the ETEA's office and will asked a series of questions from the moderator, same as every other year.

There will be no live audience or broadcast of the meeting. The meeting will be videotaped and posted the following day on YouTube, in addition to the ETEA's website.

'Politics in Downtown Edison' Blog Views Just Exceeded 2,000,000

 Well, it's not something I pay much attention too but I just noticed that the Number of Views to this Local Blog has just exceeded 2,000,000.

Just a thanks to all who took the time to see what I was saying about what goes on with the Politics in this town. I hope you all found something useful or at least something that made you want to ask questions or know more.

I do not advertise this Blog, you have to know it's there. I do occasionally post a link to this Blog on Facebook pages relating to Edison but only if I think it contributes to the posts being made on those public sites.

Overall, you'll see most of my posts deal with Muni and School Budgets, Payrolls, Bond Referendums or anything else relating to the numbers that the local taxing entities don't easily or timely volunteer.

Here's the last 12 years taxing by entity:

Anyhoo, once again - thanks for checking out what this person thinks about what goes on in this town.

Kudos to Dr. Toohey for knowing what's Most Important - the Students

 Well saw this piece here in TapInto Edison about Edison Assistant Superintendent for Pupil Services, Dr. Thomas Toohey.

Congratulations to Dr. Toohey for looking out for what's important - the Students.

Anyhoo, another in the long line of benefits to Dr. Aldarelli's Leadership.