Otselic Valley holds budget hearing Tuesday
SOUTH OTSELIC – Otselic Valley Central School District voters will have one last chance to weigh in on the district’s proposed 2011-2012 budget at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Otselic Valley Junior-Senior High School, 125 County Route 13A, South Otselic.
Tomorrow night’s annual budget hearing will address the district’s projected tax levy increase of 1.53 percent; the movement of the fifth and sixth grades from the OVCS Elementary School to the Junior-Senior High School; state aid cuts of approximately $321,000 and the natural growth of the budget due to contractual obligations, increased insurance costs and rising fuel prices. The overall budget gap is estimated at $500,000.
According to the OVCS Board of Education, the proposed 2011-2012 budget includes a reduction of $18,366 – or .21 percent – as compared to last year’s budget of $8,923,487.
To continue to meet the educational and instructional needs of both students and staff while limiting the financial burden on taxpayers, OVCS Superintendent Richard Hughes said the district has continued to refine its budgeting process. Every function within the district was analyzed according to need and cost, he added, including programs, operations and maintenance, transportation, food service and BOCES services.
The proposed 2011-2012 budget would include the elimination of eight positions – six-and-a-half through layoffs – including one special education, one physical education, three licensed teaching assistants, one food service, one half-time music and two bus driver positions.
The district is proposing to add one kindergarten position, a half-time science position and a grade five through twelve principal. Two bus runs would also be eliminated.
Also on the table for the May 17 budget vote is the purchase of a Ford F-350 truck with attached plow for the OVCS Elementary School and an SUV passenger vehicle for the transportation of students to out-of-district placements. These purchases would save close to double the gas mileage compared to the district’s smaller buses, according to the board, and would be covered with remaining 2010-2011 budget funds with no impact on taxpayers.
“Our goal was to make reductions where there were inefficiencies within our kindergarten through grade twelve structure,” said Hughes. “Even though these are our final numbers for the 2011-2012 school year, we are and will continue to search for ways to do things better and more efficient to the benefit of our Vikings.”
For more information call (315) 653-7591 or visit www.ovcs.org.
Tomorrow night’s annual budget hearing will address the district’s projected tax levy increase of 1.53 percent; the movement of the fifth and sixth grades from the OVCS Elementary School to the Junior-Senior High School; state aid cuts of approximately $321,000 and the natural growth of the budget due to contractual obligations, increased insurance costs and rising fuel prices. The overall budget gap is estimated at $500,000.
According to the OVCS Board of Education, the proposed 2011-2012 budget includes a reduction of $18,366 – or .21 percent – as compared to last year’s budget of $8,923,487.
To continue to meet the educational and instructional needs of both students and staff while limiting the financial burden on taxpayers, OVCS Superintendent Richard Hughes said the district has continued to refine its budgeting process. Every function within the district was analyzed according to need and cost, he added, including programs, operations and maintenance, transportation, food service and BOCES services.
The proposed 2011-2012 budget would include the elimination of eight positions – six-and-a-half through layoffs – including one special education, one physical education, three licensed teaching assistants, one food service, one half-time music and two bus driver positions.
The district is proposing to add one kindergarten position, a half-time science position and a grade five through twelve principal. Two bus runs would also be eliminated.
Also on the table for the May 17 budget vote is the purchase of a Ford F-350 truck with attached plow for the OVCS Elementary School and an SUV passenger vehicle for the transportation of students to out-of-district placements. These purchases would save close to double the gas mileage compared to the district’s smaller buses, according to the board, and would be covered with remaining 2010-2011 budget funds with no impact on taxpayers.
“Our goal was to make reductions where there were inefficiencies within our kindergarten through grade twelve structure,” said Hughes. “Even though these are our final numbers for the 2011-2012 school year, we are and will continue to search for ways to do things better and more efficient to the benefit of our Vikings.”
For more information call (315) 653-7591 or visit www.ovcs.org.
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