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Montoursville Area SD board reviews budget plan to use fund balance; physics teacher position highlighted as a cost-saving option
Summary
At its April 8 meeting the Montoursville Area School District business manager outlined a proposed budget with a $235,085 increase and recommended using fund balance for one-time costs instead of a separate budgetary reserve; administrators said dropping a funded physics position would nearly balance the budget, and the board discussed partnership and online options for physics instruction.
The Montoursville Area School District board heard a detailed budget presentation April 8 and discussed a proposal to stop budgeting a separate budgetary reserve and instead use general fund balance for one-time costs and emergencies.
Business Manager (speaker 9) told the board the proposed budget shows an overall increase of $235,085 driven by higher wages and benefits, including a 6.5% insurance increase, and higher contracted services. "Worst case scenario, I think we will have about 3,200,000 at the June," she said when outlining the district's fund-balance projection. She explained the change in practice: "We have moved things back out into the budget, where they actually are being expended. And our budgetary reserve has become a true budgetary reserve again where it is used for one-time costs, emergencies."
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