The Derby school board is scheduled to meet Tuesday (March 15) to finalize a spending plan for the 2011 – 2012 school year.
The public is allowed to comment at the start of the meeting. Click here to download the agenda.
The budget will then go to the Derby Board of Apportionment and Taxation, whose members will decide on a final dollar amount to give to the schools.
The budget proposed by school Superintendent Stephen Tracy has recommended an $18.9 million budget to run the schools next year.
That’s a $1.23 million — or roughly 6.9 percent — increase over the current budget.
The budget includes nine layoffs, including six teachers. In addition, the budget will cut the district’s full-day kindergarten program to a half-day program.
The school board’s meeting is scheduled to start at 6:30 p.m. in the cafetorium at Derby Middle School.
At the last school board meeting, members were stuck trying to find a way to trim Tracy’s budget request.
The thought was a 6.9 percent increase just won’t fly with the city’s tax board.
The school board ended that previous meeting without taking action.
Prior to ending the meeting, the school board was considering:
- Adding $39,683 to the budget to restore sports programs slated to be eliminated. That would bring the budget-to-budget increase to 7.02 percent.
- Reduce curriculum development by $40,000
- Reduce summer school by $30,000
- Reduce maintenance overtime by $40,000
- Reduce spending on postage by $5,000
If the school board accepts these changes Tuesday without making more changes, next year’s school budget would total $18,864,855.
That is a 6.37 percent — or $1.13 million — increase over the current spending plan.
