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Cumberland County Schools weigh cuts, pay-scale changes to close $4 million gap
Summary
School leaders presented options including freezing supervisor supplements, reducing instructional cushions and scaling maintenance projects after the county asked for a plan to cover a roughly $4 million shortfall. The board will continue work before presenting to County Commission.
Cumberland County — Cumberland County Schools administrators and board members spent the work session on budget revisions after the county asked the school system to “come back” with a plan to cover about a $4 million gap in its proposed spending.
Dr. Farley, a system staff member who led the presentation, said the district requested $19,000,000 as maintenance of effort from County Commission and sought more than $2,500,000 for singled-out capital projects. “So when we went and presented our budget to the county commission, we were asking for the 19,000,000, that is the maintenance of effort and then we also were asking for specific capital projects to be separated and that was over 2,500,000,” Dr. Farley said.
The discussion centered on three buckets of potential savings: compensation and pay-scale changes, routine operational “cushions” built into instructional lines, and capital/maintenance projects. Board members and staff recapped budget lines showing past and projected shortfalls, options for supervisor pay, and possible reductions in instructional supply allocations and maintenance rotation projects.
Board members reviewed options for…
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