By TAYLOR HARTZSTAFF WRITER Before voting on their budget for the 2016-2017 academic year, the Board of Education (BOE) held two public workshops to review the Superintendent’s proposals. On Dec. 29, Superintendent of Schools Timothy Connellan submitted his suggested budget to the BOE, proposing an increase of 3.47 percent, for a total budget of $92,782,522. The BOE met to discuss each item in the budget, page by page, during two workshops on Jan. 19 and Jan. 21. Connellan’s budget was mainly comprised of salaries, benefits, special education costs, salary increases, insurance expenditures, purchased services, supplies, major projects, and equipment. The proposal, said Connellan, was the culmination of months of work conducted by the administrative leadership team, made up of principals from several schools across the district. While Connellan said that “Everything brought to the table was interesting and worthy of discussion,” the administrators worked as a team to prioritize funding. “The needs, as identified by the administrative leadership team, are far greater than the ability of our community to fund those,” said Connellan in his proposal, “this designed spending plan addresses the most significant needs of the district.” Connellan’s proposal states that the budget is designed to tackle programmatic areas in […]
By TAYLOR HARTZSTAFF WRITER Before voting on their budget for the 2016-2017 academic year, the Board of Education (BOE) held two public workshops to review the Superintendent’s proposals. On Dec. 29, Superintendent of Schools Timothy Connellan submitted his suggested budget to the BOE, proposing an increase of 3.47 percent, for a total budget of $92,782,522. The BOE met to discuss each item in the budget, page by page, during two workshops on Jan. 19 and Jan. 21. Connellan’s budget was mainly comprised of salaries, benefits, special education costs, salary increases, insurance expenditures, purchased services, supplies, major projects, and equipment. The proposal, said Connellan, was the culmination of months of work conducted by the administrative leadership team, made up of principals from several schools across the district. While Connellan said that “Everything brought to the table was interesting and worthy of discussion,” the administrators worked as a team to prioritize funding. “The needs, as identified by the administrative leadership team, are far greater than the ability of our community to fund those,” said Connellan in his proposal, “this designed spending plan addresses the most significant needs of the district.” Connellan’s proposal states that the budget is designed to tackle programmatic areas in […]