BOE Budget Request Highest Since 1998

Update

E-mail message from Arlene Liscinsky: "The BOE last week voted and approved a budget request of 5.496 percent.The rollover amount due to salary increases is 1,576,761. Benefit rollover is 1,293,992 and transportation increases is 262,197 increase. Total rollover amount to continue doing business is $3,063,261. New program request is $440,185. Total request is $67,240,073. Two items may change in our request, transportation and health benefits increases. Since 2005-6, the city budget has grown 42 percent while BOE has grown 14 percent." 

Original story

The Board of Education's preliminary budget request for the 2013-14 fiscal year represents the largest year-over-year percentage increase in over a decade. Superintendent Freeman Burr is asking for $4,381,647 in total new dollars -- a 6.87 percent increase from the current budget.

The last time the BOE received a similar leap from the city was in 1998 when there was a 5.81 percent spending increase.

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