The School Board voted 6-5 last night to approve cuts to its budget totaling $5.3 million. The cuts include 36 bookkeepers and a total of 91 employees who will lose their jobs. E.B. Wilson night school would close if the proposed budget is adopted.
The system currently has 46 bookkeepers, 1 for each school. The plan would be to fire all 46, then rehire 10 and place them at the Central Office. Principals oppose this idea because it would make purchasing at schools even more difficult.
The County Commission can either approve or reject the budget. Alternatively, they could vote to fund the original School Board budget which would not require these cuts.
For just over $5 a month for the average taxpayer, a small property tax increase could raise sufficient funds to cover this year's deficit.
As Board Chairman Don Long has noted repeatedly, the system has added the equivalent of an entire school this year (growing by 619 students over last year) and yet has received essentially the same level of funding from the County Commission.
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