Rockaway Budget Observatory

Rockaway Township · Rockaway Borough · Morris Hills Regional build 2026-07-28-c · all versions
This site is under construction. The document archive and its provenance records are real and complete as shown below. The analytical views are being built on top of them. Nothing here is published as fact without a link to a mirrored primary source.

Sections

What You Actually Pay plain

Your school tax funds two separate districts. Nobody publishes the combined number.

The 2026-27 Budget standard

Every dollar, four ways of cutting it.

The Audit Ledger expert

Findings, repeat findings, and what never reached a corrective action plan.

Off-Budget Money expert

Reserves, insurance pools, enterprise funds, and affiliated nonprofits.

Who Decides standard

Administration and board, by department, with compensation and tenure.

Against Its Peers standard

Benchmarked to the district's own official NJ DOE comparison group.

Ten Years standard

Governance, money, litigation, and policy on one timeline.

The Transparency Ledger expert

What the record should contain and does not.

Every Source plain

All of it, traceable, exportable.

Archive status

10,427

documents mirrored locally (8.5 GB)

217

provenance proven by content hash — the local bytes match what the URL serves

64

required documents the districts have not posted, across 12 years

139

source URLs already dead when checked — mirrors are now the only copy