Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Officer would be stationed at the high school but could move among district's schools.
The Westfield Board of Education voted unanimously to adopt the $96 million preliminary budget for the 2013-2014 school year at its public meeting Tuesday evening. Among the reallocations that have occurred since the budget was last presented on Feb. 19 is the appropriation of $50,000 for a School Resource Officer. Business administrator Dana Sullivan explained that this represents half the cost of putting a police officer at the high school. The other half would be borne by the Town of Westfield. While that officer would be stationed mainly at Westfield High School, he or she would have the ability to move throughout the district's elementary and intermediate schools as well. "Over the last few months the district has been communicating …
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
BOE vows district roofs will be fixed, whether Dec. 11 referendum passes or not.
The Westfield Board of Education has made it clear that, within the next several months, the district will take the necessary steps toward replacing a substantial portion of the roofs on all district buildings. Over the next 14 days, the residents of Westfield can make a final decision on how the district will pay for those repairs. After 10 months, a dozen public presentations and countless hours of planning and number-crunching, the oft-discussed roof repair issue will have a more definitive future after a Dec. 11 bond referendum is decided. Board members have stressed that the capital project has reached the level of district necessity, with the only remaining issue being how the town decides to fund the $13.5 million investment. “…
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Under proposal, tax levy increases by 1.9 percent.
After weeks of presentations and discussions in public and months of gathering data and crunching numbers in private, the Westfield Board of Education Tuesday night finalized and approved the district’s proposed budget for the 2012-2013 school year. The total district budget will increase to $95,360,622, a 2.2 percent total budget increase from the 2011-2012 school year. However, that figure reflects a rise in revenue that includes additional support that is expected from non-tax sources of revenue, such as federal and state aid. Under the proposal, the tax levy would increase by 1.9 percent, allowing it to remain under the two percent state cap. The tax levy of the proposed budget is $87,194,608, which would result in a $183 tax …
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Board will hold public hearing, vote on budget at next Tuesday's meeting.
The Westfield Board of Education announced last night that the proposed district budget for the 2012-2013 school year includes an estimated $497,996 increase in salaries and benefits, less than a one percent increase from the funds allotted for the same purpose in the budget for this school year. A total of $70,576,193 is allotted for salaries and benefits in the proposed budget, which will be voted on at the Board’s meeting Tuesday night. It will then be submitted to the county for approval. The total represents 74 percent of the entire district budget. The 2011-2012 budget allotted $70,078,197 for salaries and benefits, according to a presentation given by Business Administrator Vincent Yaniro. An estimated $868,000 is contributed by …
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Increased funds would include a $15,000 increase in coaching salaries.
The district athletic budget will increase by about $42,000 next school year, according to a portion of the tentative budget presented at Tuesday night’s Board of Education meeting. An estimated $15,510 of the projected $42,220 total stems from an increase in coaching salaries. The proposed budget allots a total of $1,168,874 in 2012-2013, which equals 1.2 percent of the total district budget. Other areas of the athletics budget will also receive an increase in spending. The district will spend $8,732 more on replacing equipment, $5,000 more on athletics transportation and about $4,300 on reconditioning of equipment. An additional $3,000 will be spent on maintenance of the district’s 11 athletic fields, which the Board said are used nearly…
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Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Initial presentation includes 1.9 percent increase in tax levy from this school year.
Board of Education Business Administrator Vincent Yaniro Tuesday night presented a proposed budget for 2012-2013 that represented a 1.9 percent increase in tax levy from the budget for the 2011-2012 school year. The budget, which Yaniro said has been worked on since October, will be discussed nearly a dozen more times at Board meetings and meetings of the Board’s Finance Committee during the next two months before being formally presented to the public on March 27 and submitted to the county on March 28. All figures are tentative, since several variables still exist. State figures, most notably the amount of state aid the district will be receiving, will be available by the time the Finance Committee next meets on Feb. 23. The Board is …
Brian
5:31 pm on Wednesday, March 6, 2013
We should have armed officers in all of our schools. Better safe than sorry. more ›