An agenda for the meeting is available here.
- Elementary School Redistricting. The Board will vote to approve (or not) the committee recommended plan to redistrict elementary students. While most people will not be 'upset' with the decision to do so because all current students and their siblings will be allowed to remain at their current school, there is some concern about class size and resources. The concern is future class size at Shafer, the location where students from Lower Nazareth Elementary will be shifted to. Given a hiring freeze and decision not to replace retiring teachers to meet the budget, it may be difficult for Shafer to maintain class size as more students are moved into the building. Read more here and here.
- Finance Report. There will be an update on the impact to the 2007-08 NASD budget as a result of the Commonwealth of PA budget, and on the recently advertised Act 1 of 2006 - Tax Shift - Front-End Referendum Question (read more about it here).
- 2007-08 Budget. There is a vote scheduled for the 2007-08 NASD Budget that includes a 4.2% tax increase, which means the administration must have found an additional $500,000 in cuts since the last meeting. These have not yet been presented (read more here and here).
- Pool as Building Plan Option. There is a vote scheduled to continue with planning for the Pool at the new MS complex with a referendum question on the May ballot (while not exhaustive, read more here, here, and here.
- Continuation of the new MS Building. "Approve the submission of PlanCon, Part D, Project Accounting Based on Estimates, and PlanCon Part E, Design Development, for the new 7/8 Middle School, to the Pennsylvania Department of Education, as previously presented to the Board, and which becomes part of this resolution through reference." Read more about the new MS here.
Any other item can still be added and there is an executive session at 6:30p.m., but it is listed as personnel, not legal.
5 comments:
Ross-
The newest 2/12/2007 budget is online at the business admin page. The board "found" additional cuts. Along with the +900K of cuts previously announced the new cuts are as follows:
HS & MS Library Asst (Reduction of 2 positions) & Less student assistance and open library hours ($51,402)
CDC Part Time Operator (Attrition) ($17,925)
Substitue Dollars (150 days) Reduced Professional Development ($17,409)
Full-Time Custodian (Reduction of a Position) (MS Day person) ($51,127)
In-School Suspension Coordinator (Reduction of a Position) ($27,265)
HS English Teacher (Attrition) (Eliminate English Specialist position at HS and expand the responsibilities of the MS English Specialist position from 6-8 to 6-12) ($95,302)
Full-Time Maintenance Worker (Attrition) ($59,165)
Special Ed. Supervisor (Restructuring Dept) ($17,437)
So it looks like a couple of people are losing their jobs... I'm sure they won't exactly be happy about it.
You don't see a reduction in any administration position.
when I quickly looked at the budget I saw a reduction of two IT administrator positions -- for $126,000 -- are those admin positions?
Most likely staff, as I recall they include salary plus benefits in the cost/savings for a position.
If that was for two positions 63,000 per for salary and benefits most likely wouldn't be admin level.
I do recall there being a Network Administrator position advertised, this would not equate to a NASD administrator, maybe that is the reference.
They are not admin. Is this too many Chiefs and not enough Indians? The work will just get subbed out to outside firms and the end will be more costs. The maintenance budget goes up, the maintenance admin goes up and the maintenance workers go down. The Network Admin. position was filled from within (I think).
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