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Date Posted: Saturday, January 16, 08:16:16am
Author: JG
Subject: School budget scenarios
In reply to: Very concerned 's message, "New Hartford Superintendent hands out 9.35% and 4.91% budget increases" on Friday, January 15, 09:03:38am

>The Superintendent handed out a worst case scenario of
>a 9.35% shocker and an even bigger shocker of a best
>case scenario of a 4.91% increase. Both include the
>7.7% increase for the teachers and the nearly 5% for
>the administrators. Something is drastically wrong
>with the priorities of these people. So, what will
>happen now? I see that Burlington teachers have given
>up their increases to keep their education programs
>intact. When will the New Hartford teachers stop being
>so darn greedy? The Superintendent wants to slash the
>new, non-tenured teachers to get the budget to the
>4.91% but still allow the 7.7% for the greedy pact!
>The New Hartford teachers will again show that they
>are ruthless, shellfish and care nothing about the
>people in this town that have to take their pay cuts,
>increased taxes, job losses, foreclosures and negative
>growth in personal revenue. Where don’t they think the
>money will come from now?

I wasn't there but it sounds like O'Reilly walked through 2 budget options, making the point that it was going to be tough to get a reasonable budget without significant staff cuts, given contractual teacher salary increases. It may be intended to motivate talks with teachers about re-considering the contract.

Also not sure the 4.9% budget option was presented as a "best-case" scenario. It was probably more like the wish list budget, less the staff cuts that would be needed to get the budget within hailing distance of something that might fly with the Brd of Finance.

Things should get more serious when the BOE is given a specific budget proposal to act on and after that, when it's submitted to Finance.

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