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Superintendent says state budget preserves Forest Hills funding guarantee; district readies new routing software and mental-health partner
Summary
Superintendent Rob Hook briefed the board on the biennial state budget’s likely effects, the recent court ruling on EdChoice, results of a family survey, summer facility and transportation projects and the district’s new mental-health partnership for secondary schools.
Superintendent Rob Hook told the Forest Hills Local Board of Education that early conference-committee language in the state biennial budget appears to preserve the district’s funding guarantee and that staff are continuing to analyze details that could affect how carryover balances are calculated.
"We still have the guarantee, which for Forest Hill is is critical," Hook said, summarizing the district’s initial read of the committee report. He told the board the conference committee had released a document of more than 1,000 pages and that district staff would circulate a more detailed analysis once the text had been digested.
Hook said the district’s initial calculation showed a first-year increase from the conference version of roughly $1,093,000 and an additional roughly $500,000 in year two — figures he said amount to about 1% of the district’s total budget…
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