Board Members must decide whether to implement cuts this fiscal year or look ahead to next year.
Brighton Area Board of Education members spent a good portion of Monday night's meeting discussing budget reduction ideas to offset what could be a $500,000 deficit this fiscal year if Lindbom Elementary does not sell. Superintendent Greg Gray said that Board members will have to decide at the next meeting whether or not to look at budget cuts recommended by staff prior to the end of this fiscal year or wait and look at them for next year's budget. Board President Miles Vieau suggested his fellow board members should consider absorbing the deficit this year to use the extra time to make cuts for the 2013-14 budget because it is so late in the year. Gray said that currently, the district does not know what will happen with the budget, and…
The school district is also currently hiring for the first time in several years.
With the adoption of the 2012-2013 budget by Brighton School Board members Monday night, the district is on the path to eliminating its accumulated deficit by 2013-2014, according to Maria Gistinger, assistant superintendent of finance. The district will see a $2.4 million surplus, which will be used to decrease the district's deficit of nearly $6 million. The 2012-2013 budget also predicts an increase of 5.1 percent in revenues over last year. Gistinger said the district generated increased revenue through its shared services contract, where some teachers instruct classes at private schools such as St. Patrick Catholic School, Holy Spirit Catholic School, Maple Tree Montessori Academy and Cornerstone Christian School. The district has …
School officials are taking a pay decrease as well as paying more into their health care costs.
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Thursday, September 8, 2011
The top three Brighton Area Schools administrators will cut their pay by 7 percent from last year and pay 15 percent towards health insurance premiums, The Livingston Daily reported Tuesday. Superintendent Greg Gray will have his pay reduced from $145,000 last year to $135,000 this year. Maria Gistinger, assistant superintendent of finance, and Laura Surrey, assistant superintendent of instruction, will both have their pay reduced from $125,000 to $117,900. Gray told Brighton Patch these pay reductions began July 1. In addition, Gray said they are currently working on a contract with similar concessions for school principals and that he expects that to conclude within the next week or two. "We're all a team," Gray said. "If one part of the…
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Kate
8:14 pm on Friday, March 1, 2013
Again, the people who think that teachers need their compensation cut are usually the people that have little/no respect for what teachers do each day. It comes down to sheer envy, often, of the benefits that teachers have from educating the masses. I have a feeling that any of the folks on the board would be pretty peeved if their pensions were threatened. I can get on board with minimizing … more ›