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Resident urges immediate action on curriculum and warns of $2.5 million budget shortfall
Summary
During public comment, Amy Marlette told the board the timeline for the science-of-reading/ELA review is too slow and said the school business official reported an expected $2,500,000 budget deficit, urging the board to begin work on May 20 instead of waiting until fall.
Amy Marlette, a Scotia-Glenville resident, used the second public comment period to urge faster action on the district’s ELA and science-of-reading work and to warn the board of a substantial budget shortfall.
"We had somebody sit at this podium in September and very directly tell the board that we need to be looking at science of reading, and the ELA project needs to be looked at," Marlette said. She argued the committee timeline discussed by administrators — beginning committee work in September and awaiting action a year later — is too slow for the district’s needs.
Marlette also said she learned from the school business official that the district faces another "$2,500,000 budget deficit." She urged the board not to wait and to begin budget and program work "the minute the community approves that budget," recommending work start May 20 rather than waiting until January or September.
The speaker framed her comments as a call for accelerated timelines and earlier board planning; no board member provided a formal response during the public comment period recorded in the transcript. Administrators earlier in the meeting described the elementary ELA committee’s May 18 planning meeting and said the comprehensive review is slated to start next fall.
