I’m just back from the Warrant Committee meeting at the Chenery where both Town Administrator Tom Younger and Dr. Gerry Missal, the School Department’s Director of Finance and Administration, presented their best estimates of what kinds of cuts would be…
More on last night’s School Committee meeting
At the risk of muddying the water about what has and hasn’t happened yet re: the School Budget, School Committee member Ann Rittenburg has provided a detailed comment to my post from early this AM. Ann provides some more context…
School Committee weighing layoffs, other cuts
In brief: The Belmont School Committee met Tuesday evening to discuss proposed cuts of between $800,000 and $1.6 million to the FY 2009 budget. The Committee worked out various scenarios, but anticipated elimination of full time instructors at the Butler…
A Cliff’s Notes for the FY 09 School Budget…
First off: there’s a School Committee meeting this evening at 7:30PM at the Chenery Middle School to discuss proposed cuts for the FY 09 School Budget, in advance of tomorrow’s Warrant Committee meeting. Please attend either or both! For those…
Selectmen respond to open letter on school funding
I just received an e-mail response from Selectman Dan LeClerc to B2’s open letter on the school budget cuts. When I last wrote, the figure being kicked around was $3m in cuts to square the school and town budgets with…
An open letter to the Board of Selectmen
I’m posting a copy of the e-mail message I sent last night to the Board of Selectman regarding the pending debate about funding for the School Dept. and Town, and the need for an operational budget override for 2009 to…