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Board of Education adopts 2008-09 budget
District residents to go to the polls on
May 20 to decide on $83 million budget;
Estimated tax rate increase of 1.43 percent
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At its meeting on April 8, the
Guilderland Board of Education unanimously adopted an
$83,823,160 budget for the 2008-09 school year. The plan
represents a 2.08 percent increase in spending over the
current year’s budget and would result in an estimated 1.43
percent tax rate increase if approved by voters on May 20.
Several changes have been incorporated
into the proposed spending plan since it was first
introduced to the Citizens’ Budget Advisory Committee on
February 28. Most notably, the plan now includes an
additional 1.0 full-time equivalent (FTE) unassigned
teaching position to be used only in response to
unanticipated increases in student enrollment throughout the
school year.
The budget also now features additional
support for the Foreign Language Early Start (FLES) program,
as well as an additional $90,000 to address skyrocketing
diesel fuel and gasoline prices.
“Developing a sound spending plan is
always a challenge,” said Superintendent of Schools John
McGuire. “Yet through collaboration and discussion, I
believe that we have been able to strike a balance between
meeting our students’ needs and being highly accountable to
our taxpayers.” Read more about
the proposed budget.
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