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Building a District Budget for the 2009-10 School Year |
| Dear Community Members: The Wappingers Board of Education has adopted a 2009-2010 Proposed Budget of $178,623,391 which will be put before the voters on May 19th. It represents an increase of $3,644,121 or 2.08% and would be the smallest budget-to-budget increase in the last 13 years. The associated tax levy increase of 2.72% would be the lowest for the last 10 years. A contingency budget has also been adopted which would be implemented should the proposed budget be rejected and is only $401,455 (0.23%) less than the proposed budget. The associated tax levy increase would be 2.37% which represents a decrease of only 0.35% when compared to that associated with the proposed budget. The proposed budget reflects approximately $4.4 worth of budget reduction measures and cost savings opportunities. A complete list of items included in both these categories along with other pertinent information can be found on the District’s webpage at www.wappingersschools.org and, in particular, on our Building the 2009-10 WCSD Budget page. In developing the proposed budget, it was necessary to consider what related impacts the current economy might have upon the District’s future financial resources. In that regard, we will need to heighten our focus on long-range planning in order to better position ourselves to address the affordability and sustainability of future budgets. Please feel free to share your thoughts with members of the Board of Education via e-mail at WCSD.Board@wappingersschools.org. I hope that you will cast an informed vote on May 19th. Yours truly, Richard A. Powell Superintendent of Schools |
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