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School Board to vote Friday on final budget

The Warren County School District board members will get together at 8 a.m. Friday to vote on a proposed final budget.

At the moment, the proposal includes a one mill tax increase that would generate about $400,000 for the district’s general fund.

Those new dollars would be almost completely offset by new spending proposed to add $18,370 in transportation to the Warren County Career Center, a speech and language specialist, a school psychologist, and a career center health services teacher at about $88,000 each for a total of $390,370.

The proposed reductions include the elimination of 11 positions — two at the middle level, two in physics, seven others at the secondary level, and a librarian — gifted support changes ($12,000), Title I reductions (directly aligned with reduced federal funding) of one teacher and two para-professionals ($142,000), Title 2 cuts to supplies and professional development ($17,000), dropping PSAT reimbursement ($2,300), reducing the contingency fund to $250,000 ($100,000), and changes in the seven-year spending plans for: textbooks ($205,000), technology ($200,000), and buildings and grounds ($200,000).

In all, the cuts add up to $1,934,300 in savings.

The special board meeting is set for 8 a.m. Friday at the district’s central office at the former Russell Elementary School on Route 62 for the purpose of approving the final proposed budget.

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