Bolivar-Richburg will put another $17,010,677 million budget proposal before voters June 19, but sports cut from the first budget would be reinstated.
The school board Thursday voted to support a proposal by President Charles Bessette to put varsity wrestling, tennis and golf back into the budget. However, the boys and girls tennis teams will be combined into one. Golf would also continue as a varsity sport and there would be enough money allocated for a coach to take up to six golfers to away matches.
Modified wrestling would also be restored to a limited degree, district officials said. There would be a stipend for a varsity coach to mentor both the varsity and modified wrestling teams during practice. There would also be money to take the modified team to five tournaments per year.
In the new proposed budget, funding for fifth- and sixth-grade boys basketball would be eliminated and instead of modified girls? and boys basketball having separate teams for grades seven and eight, there would be one girls? modified team and one boys? team for both grades. The other changes to athletics is the school board would look to cut one or two games from each sports team?s regular season, depending on how many games the team has on its schedule.
District Business Manager Jenny Bilotta said even with these changes, the district needs to cut about $2,000 from its 2012-13 budget. Her recommendation is to cut the $2,000 from the administrative budget. Bilotta said she has talked to administrators and they support the cuts.
?We?ll cut back on conferences and things and other contract expenses,??she said. ?It may be the number of organizations an administrator belongs to. The administrators can decide how they?re going to pull that back from the expenses they incur.?
The district is required by law to have another public hearing. The board scheduled the hearing for 6;30 p.m. June 11 in the auditorium.
Bilotta said the changes would be posted on the district?s web site. She also said a flyer should be sent to the public.
?You?ve got to have a short, quick flyer. We?re going to have to come up with a flyer ... and broadcast it everywhere,??she said.
Board members decided not to go above a 2 percent tax levy increase. They said Superintendent Marilyn Capawan, who could not attend Thursday?s special meeting due to illness, also felt strongly that the levy increase should not be more than 2 percent. Capawan will return next week, school board members said.
No one voted against the revised budget proposal. However, board member J.?Michael Church said he was in favor of putting the original budget proposal out for a second vote.
?I still think that was as fair a job as we could do,??Church said. ?As much as I?hate to see anything go, this was the fair (thing to do).?
The board said results of a survey, given to voters after last week?s original budget proposal failed, will be put on the district website. Bilotta said the results would be on the site today.
The survey contained questions such as, ?Did eliminating athletic programs have a bearing on your vote?? ?Did the elimination of teaching positions have a bearing on your vote?? and ?Do you feel a property tax levy of 2 percent was too high?? Bessette said the results indicating how many answered ?yes??or no? on the questions would be released.
?Nothing else will be released outside of the board. There were some good comments (in the surveys), some insightful comments and there were some that were not helping,??he said.
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