The Peru Gazette

Peru Central’s Board of Education is slated to meet at 6 PM Monday, April 4th for a set of executive session preliminary first round interviews of particular candidates for Superintendent of Schools. A. Paul Scott, Peru Central’s veteran Superintendent of Schools, retires at the end of this school year. No public session business or school board actions are anticipated for Monday, April 4th.

In addition, the Peru Central Board of Education will launch its sixth public meeting on budget development this coming Tuesday, April 5th at 6 PM at the school district’s community room, adjacent to the main entrance of Peru High School. At the public meeting Tuesday, it’s anticipated the school board will:

• Receive updated figures associated with 2011-2012 school year state aid revenues for Peru Central School District.
• Receive at the meeting and discuss the prospective impact of a contingency budget.
• Receive at the meeting and consider an updated draft revenues plan for 2011-2012.
• Establish a proposed budget plan for 2011-2012, and authorize the school district to move ahead with formal notices and publication of necessary documents regarding the school board’s proposed budget plan. Voter consideration is slated for Tuesday, May 17, 2011.
  

As is customary practice at Peru Central, an information packet will be available to district residents who attend the school board’s April 5th public session budget development meeting. The intent of the information packet is to encourage district residents to follow along as the school board attends to key matters and topics that evening.