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Shippensburg board debates cutting committees, eyes budget subcommittee to hunt savings
Summary
At a Committee of the Whole meeting, school directors discussed consolidating standing committees, creating a temporary budget-and-finance subcommittee to seek efficiencies and better present findings to the full board, and asking administration to draft policy language for any formal changes.
Shippensburg Area School District board members opened a broad discussion about consolidating and simplifying the board's committee structure and creating a time-limited subcommittee to examine district finances.
Board members said several current committees primarily provide information rather than policy direction and argued some work could be handled as presentations to the committee of the whole or by ad-hoc teams called as needed. The proposal advanced by several directors is to keep a smaller set of standing groups (facilities/safety and a budget/finance group) and fold…
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