Posted April 15, 2011 on http://www.egcsd.org/index.php
The East Greenbush CSD Board of Education adopted a budget for the 2011-2012 school year at its April 13th Board meeting. The budget totals $84,730,093 and represents a 0.52 percent reduction in spending from the current year’s budget. Despite school officials cutting spending, the 2011-2012 budget carries a 2.8 percent tax levy increase, due largely to a $4.7 million loss in NY State operating aid.
The adopted budget includes full-day kindergarten, as well as positions earlier proposed to be cut from art, music, social work, guidance and continuing education. The budget also provides partial restoration of cuts made to athletics, business education, and family and consumer sciences.
The budget calls for the elimination of 33.15 full-time equivalent (FTE) positions, including teaching, administrative and support staff.
You can learn more about the budget at the public hearing scheduled for Wednesday, May 4 at 7:30 p.m. in the Goff Middle School Cafeteria.
Additional budget presentations are scheduled at each of the District's schools during PTO meetings in April and May. These presentations are open to the public and will take place at the following times and locations:
Goff MS- April 27 at 7 p.m.
Columbia HS- April 28 at 7 p.m.
Bell Top ES- May 2 at 7 p.m.
Genet ES- May 2 at 7 p.m.
DPS ES- May 3 at 7 p.m.
Red Mill ES- May 5 at 7 p.m.
Green Meadow ES- May 5 at 7 p.m.
Voters will go to the polls on May 17 to decide on the proposed 2011-2012 school budget. Voting will take place from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. at polling locations at Bell Top Elementary School, DPS Elementary School, Green Meadow Elementary School and Goff Middle School.
To learn more about 2011-2012 budget, please attend one of our public budget presentations or visit our Budget & Tax Wepage
In most every home in this town people are reeling from the combined effects of fuel price increases, food price increases, TAX increases from every, single taxing authority and from low to no pay or salary increases.
ReplyDeleteAnd as a result people are working hard to manage themselves and their households within this reality.
The School Board may see themselves as heroes. The tax increase is ONLY proposed at 2.8%!!
Wouldn't it refreshing and so very different if every taxing authority dealt with the same realities as we all do? Or think of it this way...wouldn't we each love to go to our employers and tell them, with whatever our justification, that we need more revenue or a pay raise?
VOTE NO. It is past high time for all of us to unite and tell each and every taxing authority in and around our town that we are done. Done with being one of the most highly taxed group of people in one of the most highly taxed states.
I wholeheartedly agree! It will be just like the beginning of our own little "getting rid of Mubarak." Funny how the parallels exist with the "benevolent" Arab dictatorships......
ReplyDeleteI've said this before and here goes again: NEVER vote yes on the first budget presented ! This is the one with all the fat still intact- they can do better ! We need to force their hand - VOTE NO !
ReplyDeleteAnd....get rid of Mike Angelo -
Mike Angelo and Michelle LeClair have to go! They side with Guptill/Nagel and are part of the overall problem.
ReplyDeleteSo sad to see the decline of Mike Angelo- who I had always thought was a gifted teacher/educator. What I've seen lately of him at School Board meetings is what he's clearly become as of late- a pompous,arrogant and egotistical hate monger. Too bad that's what he's become!
ReplyDelete#2 - #5 -#6- and #8 - VOTE FOR POSITIVE CHANGE ON THE SCHOOL BOARD!!! THESE FOUR CANDIDATES ARE WHOLEHEARTEDLY ENDORSED AS THE CANDIDATES TO STOP THE FOOLISHNESS OF NAGEL AND COMPANY ! DO ALL OF EGCSD A FAVOR AND VOTE FOR CHANGE - 2,5,6 and 8 !!
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