The Peru Gazette

The Peru Central Board of Education launches its annual budget workshop series on Tuesday, February 7th 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 #1’ for the school board’s budget development binder containing various budget development documents and charts.

B. Discuss the Budget Snapshot of February 3, 2012.

C. Discuss the research brief entitled ‘Advancing in a Different Direction: Grade Six at Peru CSD’ which outlines the choice ahead for the school board to reduce annual operating costs by roughly $200,000 annually by returning grade six to an elementary grades program September 1st forward, rather than keeping grade six at the middle school.

D. Receive and discuss the preliminary first 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.

F. Examine the updated budget development timetable.

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.