I looked up the cost per student in the school district and there's no getting around it being off the charts. Without increases in enrollment, which don't sound likely, it's only going to get worse. My parents had a vacation home on one of the coastal towns in New Jersey and they went through the same thing. They ended up consolidating the schools and spreading them out among the towns. Certainly not the greatest arrangement for the kids but it seems to work. In terms of the police force, if you think 10 is big, in the town my parents were in they had over 30 officers for a town that was basically a ghost town other than between Memorial Day and Labor Day.
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