The fifth budget work session of the Springs School Board on April 4 made clear a few pertinent points; that the school board was going to make some cuts, and that the decisions were going to be emotionally charged for both the board and the community.
Audible gasps, sighs, and groans issued from the crowd, which was not invited to comment since it was a board work session, and at one point a Springs School teacher raced from the auditorium in tears as her position was eliminated.
After the dust settled, programs like Project MOST, summer school, Springs School in Action, and many extracurricular activities -- along with participation in East Hampton High School sports -- lay on the cutting room floor.
Due to the recent guidelines sent from Albany relating to the new 2-percent property tax levy cap, the budget for 2012-13 is limited to $24.68 million, or $208,920 less than the current budget, due in no small part to decreased revenue.Find beautiful landscape oil paintings here.This could be possible with the assistance of offshore merchant account. A budget reduction of $791,969 over what was originally considered needed to be achieved by cutting programs.
"Districts all over the state are grappling with this," Tim Frazier,Ekahau RTLS is the only Wi-Fi based real time Location system solution that operates on any brand or generation of Wi-Fi network. a board member and principal of the Southampton Intermediate School, said. "We're going to try to be as fiscally responsible as possible."
"Please understand that this is very emotional for everyone," the board president, Kathee Burke Gonzalez, said in a quiet voice. "No one prepares you for this. We realize this will affect staff members and their careers, and we are not taking this lightly."
One piece of good news: rather than the $2.9 million that the board originally thought was all that would be allowed for the programs being inspected, the board discovered it had an additional $400,000 to allocate after Colleen Card, the business administrator, reexamined the numbers from Albany.
The five-person board looked at the 25 programs that had been discussed during a community forum on Feb. 11, and went down the list line by line, taking a "show of hands" vote amongst themselves for each item, and then explaining the pros and cons of cutting or keeping different programs.Secured handsfree building and door access solutions with Hands free access by Nedap AVI.
Prekindergarten, which had been on the cutting block, passed with flying colors to the relief of many parents in the audience.
Tim Frazier was the only hold-out on the most hotly-contested item of the night -- changing the sixth grade from its current elementary model, which has the students spending a half-day in their homeroom with specials in the afternoon, to a middle-school model, in which the students would spend their first period with the homeroom teacher, and then travel from class to class like the seventh and eighth-grade students. The change would realize about $200,000 in savings and would include the layoff of three of the least senior elementary school teachers.
The vote was 4-1 to change to the middle-school model, with Mr. Frazier the only one voting to keep things the way they are. "I'm speaking as an educator. It is going to tear apart this school," Mr. Frazier said. "It's going to make a difference in the morale of the school and it will destroy all the hard work this school has achieved." Mr. Frazier's wife, Tracey, is a fifth-grade teacher at Springs, but her position was not at risk by the vote.
John Grant disagreed with Mr. Frazier. "I have to put students first, taxpayers second, and the staff third," he said.
"But that's exactly what I'm doing, John," Mr. Frazier answered. "Students are going to get harmed by this in a way that's going to affect the performance of this school."
"I have to respectfully disagree that this is going to harm kids," said Ms. Gonzalez. "They'll have the same art teacher, the same music teacher. Personally, I think our kids will thrive."
Mr. Grant pointed out that in many district, sixth grade is a year when children move to another building. "This is kindergarten through eighth," he said. "Everything will still be familiar to them."
Immediately after that, the board changed the schedule from a nine-period day back to an eight-period day, which saved $100,Distributes and manufactures RUBBER SHEET.000 by having four middle school teachers go from fulltime to four-fifths time.
Audible gasps, sighs, and groans issued from the crowd, which was not invited to comment since it was a board work session, and at one point a Springs School teacher raced from the auditorium in tears as her position was eliminated.
After the dust settled, programs like Project MOST, summer school, Springs School in Action, and many extracurricular activities -- along with participation in East Hampton High School sports -- lay on the cutting room floor.
Due to the recent guidelines sent from Albany relating to the new 2-percent property tax levy cap, the budget for 2012-13 is limited to $24.68 million, or $208,920 less than the current budget, due in no small part to decreased revenue.Find beautiful landscape oil paintings here.This could be possible with the assistance of offshore merchant account. A budget reduction of $791,969 over what was originally considered needed to be achieved by cutting programs.
"Districts all over the state are grappling with this," Tim Frazier,Ekahau RTLS is the only Wi-Fi based real time Location system solution that operates on any brand or generation of Wi-Fi network. a board member and principal of the Southampton Intermediate School, said. "We're going to try to be as fiscally responsible as possible."
"Please understand that this is very emotional for everyone," the board president, Kathee Burke Gonzalez, said in a quiet voice. "No one prepares you for this. We realize this will affect staff members and their careers, and we are not taking this lightly."
One piece of good news: rather than the $2.9 million that the board originally thought was all that would be allowed for the programs being inspected, the board discovered it had an additional $400,000 to allocate after Colleen Card, the business administrator, reexamined the numbers from Albany.
The five-person board looked at the 25 programs that had been discussed during a community forum on Feb. 11, and went down the list line by line, taking a "show of hands" vote amongst themselves for each item, and then explaining the pros and cons of cutting or keeping different programs.Secured handsfree building and door access solutions with Hands free access by Nedap AVI.
Prekindergarten, which had been on the cutting block, passed with flying colors to the relief of many parents in the audience.
Tim Frazier was the only hold-out on the most hotly-contested item of the night -- changing the sixth grade from its current elementary model, which has the students spending a half-day in their homeroom with specials in the afternoon, to a middle-school model, in which the students would spend their first period with the homeroom teacher, and then travel from class to class like the seventh and eighth-grade students. The change would realize about $200,000 in savings and would include the layoff of three of the least senior elementary school teachers.
The vote was 4-1 to change to the middle-school model, with Mr. Frazier the only one voting to keep things the way they are. "I'm speaking as an educator. It is going to tear apart this school," Mr. Frazier said. "It's going to make a difference in the morale of the school and it will destroy all the hard work this school has achieved." Mr. Frazier's wife, Tracey, is a fifth-grade teacher at Springs, but her position was not at risk by the vote.
John Grant disagreed with Mr. Frazier. "I have to put students first, taxpayers second, and the staff third," he said.
"But that's exactly what I'm doing, John," Mr. Frazier answered. "Students are going to get harmed by this in a way that's going to affect the performance of this school."
"I have to respectfully disagree that this is going to harm kids," said Ms. Gonzalez. "They'll have the same art teacher, the same music teacher. Personally, I think our kids will thrive."
Mr. Grant pointed out that in many district, sixth grade is a year when children move to another building. "This is kindergarten through eighth," he said. "Everything will still be familiar to them."
Immediately after that, the board changed the schedule from a nine-period day back to an eight-period day, which saved $100,Distributes and manufactures RUBBER SHEET.000 by having four middle school teachers go from fulltime to four-fifths time.
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