While the budget does not calculate percent change for all subcategory items, some takeaways from those calculations that we would like to highlight are:
- Administration & Improvement see a ~22.3% increase while Pupil Services and Teaching are cut to offset the majority of that increase. Pupil Services sees a total ~10.7% decrease alongside an almost $100,000 (~1%) cut to Teaching.
- Under General Support, the bulk of increase goes to Central Administration with an ~11.36% increase. Staff and Central Services see a smaller ~1.7% and ~4.5% increase, respectively.
- As seen in the Percent Change calculation, most of the overall budget decrease is due to large cuts in Employee Benefits. All increases are offset by decreases on other lines leading to the almost half of a percentage point decrease overall.
The next Board of Education meeting is coming in a few weeks on May 12 at 6pm. The budget vote follows one week later on May 19.
