Parkland Budget Gets Preliminary Vote Tuesday
It's a necessary first step in the budget process that won't be completed until June.
Parkland School District's 2013-14 preliminary budget is slated for a vote by the Board of Education at next Tuesday night's meeting. Business Administration Director John Vignone and Superintendent of Schools Richard Sniscak briefed members of the board's Education & Athletics Committee on the status of the budget during a Tuesday morning committee meeting. Vignone told the the committee that $1.498 million must be eliminated from the 2013-14 budget so that it remains within the allowable Act 1 index, plus exceptions. That would represent a preliminary 4.35 millage increase. "It's full of uncertainty right now. We exceed where we can be," Vignone said. "We have a lot of work to do, using fund balance, retirements and other things." …
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John
7:08 am on Wednesday, February 13, 2013
This is simply a joke. Taxpayers can no longer continue paying for the failure of PSD to continue at its present rate. The are no unicorns and no rainbows with pots of gold sitting there waiting fo this administration to make yet another blunder. If teachers want to strike, let them strike. Sitting at home not collecting a paycheck might do them some good. NOBODY is seeing a 5.67% increase in … more ›