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GISH school board members hear proposed budget
By Harold Reutter
harold.reutter@theindependent.com
Published: Tuesday, September 7, 2010 10:20 PM CDT
Grand Island school board members heard business manager Virgil Harden give a report on a propose 2010-11 "status quo" budget.
The general fund budget, which accounts for more that 71 percent of the entire school budget, is going up 3.72 percent.
Harden said that increase is partly due to the 4.5 percent increase in compensation costs for teachers, administrators and classified staff, who fill positions such as secretaries, food service workers, paraeducators, maintenance and janitorial staff and others.
The remainder of the increase in the proposed general fund budget is due to increased staffing for a school district that has added students for every school year during the past decade and is seeing an enrollment increase for the 2010-11 school year.
Harden said the tax levy for the general fund budget is staying even at $1 per hundred dollars of valuation. The levy for the special building fund, which is used for larger projects such as school additions and occasionally even an entire new grade school, is down slightly.
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