Tuesday, September 25, 2012
An advisory committee will be put in place in upcoming months to help with financial issues.
Oswego Board of Education members voted 5-0 Monday night to approve the 2012-2013 Oswego District 308 budget containing a $2.6 million deficit. Prior to Monday night’s meeting, the budget deficit had been reported at $3.8 million, said Paul O’Malley, assistant superintendent of business. Most of the deficit is in the budget’s education fund. O’Malley wanted all present to be aware that the State’s reduction in funding of GSA had reduced District 308’s revenue by $4.1 million, which caused a negative impact on the budget resulting in a deficit of $ 2,634,724. “If we had that $4.1 million we would be having a different conversation tonight,” he said. Some of the expenditure reductions in the new budget included staff realignment, outside …
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
District will delay in hiring of some staff and delay purchase of new textbooks.
Four weeks ago the Oswego School District 308 Board released a budget for Fiscal Year 2013 that contained a $5.5 million deficit. That amount has been narrowed to $3.8 million, Superintendent Matthew Wendt announced at Monday night's board meeting. In fact, Wendt said the budget deficit had actually started at just over $7.5 million, but several weeks of effort in July and August had decreased it to the $5.5 million presented in the original draft. Wendt said “bold moves” were made to decrease the budget by $1.7 million. “We’re really doing a great job of cutting where we need to, but not affecting the classroom, which is key,” he said. The cuts include: “Not to say we don’t need new textbooks,” said Wendt, “but we need also understand …
Tuesday, August 14, 2012
The Fiscal Year 2013 budget has a $5.5 million deficit.
On Monday evening the Oswego 308 School Board met to discuss several items of interest for both the approaching school year and the FY2013 budget. Resolution for Intergovernmental Agreement for Transportation Earlier the Aurora West School District 129 and East Aurora School District 131 discussed transportation bids for special education students who attend programs outside of their districts. The winning bidder was Durham School Services, L.P. Paul O’Malley, assistant superintendent of business, wanted to approve and authorize the execution of the Intergovernmental Agreement, which would allow Oswego students to use the transportation alongside Aurora students. Board member Dave Behrens clairified that, for the moment, the transporation …
Jane Enviere
9:12 pm on Wednesday, September 26, 2012
An advisory committee would be useful if JimmyJ were not so on the money with his comment. When it comes to school district business, any school district, this type of thing serves one major purpose and that's to pacify the public and make them feel as though they have a voice. In the end, the administration already knows what it wants and they generally know the people to choose to ensure that … more ›