Budget Update

When you read the items below you will note the cuts from expenditures in general fund are more significant than initially thought. I would be less than honest if I did not tell you these cuts will impact how Whitko educates students. I want you to continue to offer your suggestions as "Everything is on the table from if and how we do preschool to how AP Calculus is offered and everything in between." We will look at how schools are configured for example is K-2 and 3-5 more efficient at the elementary? Should grade 5 attend the WMS building. What about the middle school concept or junior high? How about middle and high school daily schedules? How about semester or trimester? What about administrative and support costs? It is all on the table! So send your ideas to me. Share your ideas with your principal or director.

I also want you to know " Nothing has been decided and when it is the affected person or persons will hear it from me." If you hear it from some other source it is just a rumor and like all cases some rumors may be true others may be false. When we have some better ideas as to the reductions being proposed I will let you know.

WCTA is working along side us to help in this very difficult process so feel free to share your ideas with your representatives if that fits your position.

Here is the current budget scoop we need to trim between $450,000 and $830,000 for 2010 and another $290,000 for 2011 as the stimulus money will not be available also the $504,000 cut in 2010 will not be made up in 2011. This is much more that was supposed in the earlier blog. So over two year we are talking $1.25 million Like I said, we together will figure this out and stand tall as Whitko always does.