Saturday, September 24, 2011

Next Minooka 201 School Board Meeting and Budget Hearing

The next meeting of the Minooka CCSD 201 school board is Wednesday, September 28, 2011. The Committee of the Whole Meeting starts at 6:00 p.m. in the board room (the old library) at the Minooka Primary Center located at 305 Church Street in Minooka. The Committee of the Whole Meeting will be followed by a Budget Hearing at 6:45 p.m. in the gymnasium. The Budget Hearing will be followed by the regular Board Meeting at 7 p.m. Please be sure to mark your calendars. You can find the agenda for each of the meetings here.

The proposed budget for fiscal year 2011-2012 can be found here. The proposed budget shows deficits in a number of budget categories: Educational, Operations & Maintenance, Debt Service, Municipal Retirement/Social Security, and Capital Projects. Of these, the two operating funds, Educational and Operations & Maintenance, are the most critical. The proposed budget shows a deficit of $899,418 (or approximately 4%) in the Educational fund and a deficit of $714,200 (or approximately 33%) in the Operations & Maintenance fund. Current fund balances will only carry the district for a few years. So the choice facing the school board, like so many other government entities, will be to either cut expenditures or raise taxes and/or fees (or some combination of the two) in order to balance the budget over time.

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