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The board is composed of seven members, the county superintendent of schools, who serves on an ex officio basis, and six members who are appointed by the Cape May County Board of County Commissioners to three-year terms of office on a staggered basis, with two member terms up for reappointment and expiring each year. The board appoints a ...
Cape May County is governed by a five-person Board of County Commissioners whose members are elected at-large on a partisan basis to three-year terms of office on a staggered basis, with either one or two seats coming up for election each year; At an annual reorganization held each January, the commissioners select one member to serve as director and another to serve as vice-director. [1]
The board is comprised of seven members, the county superintendent of schools, who serves on an ex officio basis, and six members who are appointed by the Cape May County Board of County Commissioners to three-year terms of office on a staggered basis, with two member terms up for reappointment and expiring each year. The board appoints a ...
[12] In 2013, the city government asked the Cape May County Board of Education to have city voters vote on a new tax rate but the county board declined. [12] In 2014, Degener stated that the city government of Cape May "is trying to leave the school system over what it claims are excessive costs". [13] Superintendent Chris Kobik retired in 2019 ...
In 2013, the Lower Cape May Regional School District received a feasibility study that looked at ways to reconfigure the district, which had been established in 1956. The study considered Cape May City withdrawing from the regional district or the dissolution of the district, converting Lower Township's existing PreK-6 district to serve PreK-12 ...
The Cape May Branch of the Cape May County Public Library is located in Cape May City. [141] The library was previously in city hall but later moved to a standalone building. In 2009 an estimated $507,800 renovation was to take place with $395,300, or about 78% of the expenses, paid by Cape May County. [142]
The first Cape May High School, built in 1901, was designed by Seymour Davis and built for $35,000. [26] This facility was shared with the white elementary school. [17] In 1917 a new Cape May High School facility was built, [27] with the 1901 building becoming an elementary school. [28] Cape May High School educated students of all races. [29]
A 1777 map depicting Cape May County, the scene of the Battle of Turtle Gut Inlet on June 29, 1776, in the American Revolutionary War. Before Cape May County was settled by Europeans, the indigenous Kechemeche tribe of the Lenape people inhabited South Jersey, and traveled to the barrier islands during the summer to hunt and fish.