Schools
Avon School Board Approves Superintendent's Recommended Budget
The school board voted on the budget at a special meeting on Tuesday night.
The Avon Board of Education unanimously endorsed the budget Superintendent Gary Mala recommended at its special meeting on Tuesday evening.
The school board is requesting a $51,903,086 general fund budget for fiscal year 2014-15, a 2.77 percent net increase over last year.
About $2.7 million is projected in the general fund in non-tax revenue. The board also unanimously approved three other non-tax revenue streams calculating that the school district will receive $975,994 in state federal educational grants in the next school year, as well as $1,297,474 coming in for the school cafeteria fund and $54,000 in the school facilities fund.
The combined gross figure that the Town Council and Board of Finance will see is $54,230,554, which includes projected non-tax revenue from the proposed general fund, school cafeteria fund, federal educational grant and school facilities fund.
When the Town Council recommends a budget, the town and school board budget will be recommended for the Board of Finance's review as a cumulative gross amount.
The public hearing for the whole budget, including the town and school board requests, is scheduled for Monday, April 7, followed by the tri-board workshop on Wednesday, April 9, the town meeting on Monday, May 5 and the referendum on Wednesday, May 15.
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