JULY 15, 2009
BONNIE COBLENTZ
Starkville School District board members heard details on the 2009-2010 budget in a public hearing that didn’t really have an audience.
The full board minus Bill Weeks was present for the budget presentation, but only two members of the media and one representative of both the PTA and Parents for Public Schools were in attendance.
Superintendent Judy Couey said the budget is based on the figures they used earlier in planning. While full Mississippi Adequate Education Program funding was granted in June, she expects some to be rescinded later.
“We have all been told to anticipate a cut mid-year, so we will be as conservative as possible the next two years and try to weather a possible (cut) when the stimulus money runs out in two years,” she said.
The federal stimulus money given to the state for school districts was not given on top of regular MAEP funding, but instead makes up some of the shortfall caused by the economic downturn.
“It’s filling in for the state revenues that aren’t there,” Couey said.
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