The Peru Gazette

The Peru Central Board of Education continues its annual budget workshop series on Tuesday, March 6th at 6 PM in the community room, according to A. Paul Scott, Interim Superintendent of Schools at Peru Central. At their budget workshop, the Board will:

• A. Receive ‘Budget Packet #3’ for the school board’s budget development binder containing various budget development documents and charts.
• B.  Examine and discuss a packet of facts, charts, class size figures and a room use map outlining grade six program options for July 1st forward, as part of the Board’s continuing examination of whether or not to reduce costs and staffing by more than $200,000 annually by returning grade six teachers to the elementary school and schedule, rather than the middle school program.
• C.  Receive and discuss recent editorials from regional print and broadcast media, focused on public education funding July 1st forward.
• D.  Receive and discuss an expanded and revised preliminary second draft cost reductions list of roughly $1M for July 1, 2012 forward, in response to continued scarcity of additional state aid revenues and the first year of the state-mandated property tax cap threshold.
• E.   Identify any particular areas the Board commissions the Interim Superintendent move ahead with, in regard to early notice to potentially impacted employees associated with preliminary cost reduction considerations.

Interim Superintendent Scott said each and every budget document outlined above will be available to members of the school community attending the workshop Tuesday night.