OXFORD – The Oxford Academy and Central School District Board of Education presented the 2012-13 budget at a hearing Thursday. The budget vote will take place on May 15 in the high school auditorium.

The proposed budget total is $16,849,098 in expenditures. According to the board, this is $86,568 less than the 2011-12 budget. The spending plan represents a 2 percent tax levy increase.

Joe Guginom, Oxford’s business administrator, explained that the gap elimination number was $244,495 less than the previous year. The gap elimination number is the amount of money retracted from state aid by the governor’s office each year. The budget will see $11,576,271 in state aid for the 2012-13 budget year.

Due to a decrease in enrollment, interim Superintendent Sylvia Root announced that three full-time staff would be eliminated in 2012-13. Enrollment is estimated to decrease from 812 to 781 next year, she said, primarily in grades one and two.

Therefore, one first and one second grade teacher position will be eliminated, as well as one teacher’s assistant.