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Board of Education to study regionalizing middle school amid budget cuts
Summary
Residents raised concerns about school cuts and asked whether regionalizing the middle school would save money; Superintendent Barbara Wilson said the BOE will form a subcommittee to study the option and clarified which school contracts are locked in.
During the public comment portion of Columbia’s reconvened budget meeting, several residents questioned cuts to school programming and asked whether regionalizing the middle school could yield savings. Superintendent Barbara Wilson said the Board of Education is open to exploring regionalization and plans to form a subcommittee to investigate the potential savings and implications.
Wilson also identified several school-related costs that are effectively fixed in the short term, naming teacher contracts, health insurance, and snow plowing as examples of locked-in obligations. "The BOE is open to looking at this and they plan to create a subcommittee to look further into this," Wilson said, indicating the board will take a deliberate approach to any regionalization study.
