Board of Education to vote on budget proposal April 13
April 8, 2010—The Board of Education will vote on the current
2010-11 budget proposal at its next meeting on April 13 (7:30 p.m. in the high
school multi-purpose room). Below are highlights of the proposal that board
members will consider:
Budget reductions totaling $155,000, including:
Note: Cost savings from staff positions reflect salary and benefits.
• Reduce business office clerk by one day per week: ($5,500)
• Eliminate one full-time custodian: ($25,600)
• Continue to reduce custodial overtime: ($10,000)
• Reduce contractual health services for private/parochial students
(due to decrease in participating students): ($3,000)
• Eliminate staff training for the Project Lead the Way pre-engineering program:
($3,500)
• Reduce budget for transportation and operations & maintenance supplies by 7
percent: ($18,000)
• Reduce budget for other supplies by 4 percent: ($14,500)
• Reduce budget for equipment: ($14,000)
• Eliminate purchase of non-aidable textbooks: ($13,000)
• Eliminate purchase of non-aidable software: ($5,000)
• Eliminate purchase of non-aidable hardware: ($4,000)
• Reduce budget for summer curriculum work by 50 percent: ($3,500)
• Switch to a non-BOCES social worker: ($15,000)
• Reduce diesel fuel purchases: ($20,400)
Instructional staff reductions and cost savings totaling
$274,340, including:
• Reduce music teacher to part-time (band program reduced to part-time due to
decreased
current-year band enrollment)
• Eliminate a high school English teaching position (due to drop in high school
enrollment
and loss of federal remedial reading grant)
• Salary “breakage” from teaches who accepted the district’s retirement
incentive
(savings result from lower salary offered to less-veteran replacements)
• Eliminate one-full time librarian (remaining librarian to be shared among all
schools)
• Eliminate two teacher aides for Academic Intervention Services (AIS)
• Eliminate kindergarten teacher position added in this year’s budget
• Eliminate purchase of BOCES software
Other:
• Addition of two lunch monitors at elementary school (2.5 hours per day each)
to enhance student supervision
Total estimated reductions and cost savings: $429,340
Fund balance being used: $325,000
Estimated tax levy increase: $754,340 (+2.86%)
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