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Superintendent warns of food-service shortfall, seeks roughly $350,000 to fix district pool liner
Summary
At the May 11 South Summit Board of Education meeting, the superintendent gave a preliminary budget assessment that flagged rising personnel and insurance costs and warned food-service reserves will be exhausted; he asked the board to consider moving funds and requested about $350,000 to replace a failing pool liner.
Superintendent (speaker 2) told the South Summit Board of Education on May 11 that the district faces mounting cost pressures and will need to shift funds and make targeted cuts to balance next year's budget.
"As required by statute, I'm required to give you kind of my initial assessment of the budget, before the budget hearing next week," the superintendent said, calling his remarks unofficial and subject to final property-tax figures expected in June. He said the district expects roughly $502,000 in additional revenue next year from legislative allocations and local growth but faces large recurring costs, including approximately $270,000 for step-and-lane increases and…
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