OXFORD — Oxford Hills school board members will be asked to approve a plan to reduce the budget for 2010 by $90,464 when it meets Monday night.
Business Manager Cathy Fanjoy said the budget subcommittee has recommended that freshmen spring sports be eliminated to save $10,000, and the $42,000 saved this year in property insurance bids be applied to this year’s deficit instead of carrying it over to the next fiscal year, which begins July 1, 2010. Junior varsity and varsity sports will not be affected, Fanjoy said.
Another $4,100 from the sale of school buses would also be applied to this year’s deficit, and $34,000 may have to be found in support staff reductions, she said.
The reductions are part of an $803,955 curtailment in funds the Oxford Hills School District faces this fiscal year. The first two phases of the curtailment were already enacted by the school board this year.
Regional School Unit 17 Superintendent Mark Eastman has suggested to the budget subcommittee that it look at a two-year budget planning process to mitigate what officials say will be a significant gap in the school budget over the next several years when federal stimulus money is no longer available to the Oxford Hills school district.
The school board will also act on several other matters when they meet at 7 p.m. in the administration offices Monday, including approving an overnight trip to Washington, D.C., for social studies students at the Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School in Paris, and hearing a report from Marcye Gray, special education director, on the proposed special education regulations.
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