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Show Financial Woes Continue to Plague Park City District This week's sale of the Marsac School property helps the district's budget but "it still leaves us in the hole" according to school superintendent Richard Goodworth. Goodworth had good and bad news for board members on the subject of the budget during Tuesday night's board meeting. The good news was an additional $14,283 in revenue from increased assessed valuation, valuat-ion, a pupil increase and additional funds garnered from the high school's tougher attendance policy. However, it still wasn't enough to offset Good-worth's Good-worth's projected $58,087 district budget shortage. The superintendent had already included the revenue from the Marsac sale into this year's budget. Board appro-.'val appro-.'val guaranteed the monies but it didn't solve all the district's money problems. Goodworth explained the bad news was the district ending up with a $32,004 deficit from last year which "the law says can't happen." hap-pen." However, the law does stipulate that such a deficit can exist if a ten-year makeup plan in instituted. According to Goodworth, it means the district could show a legal deficit of $28,803 this year which includes ten percent of last year's deficit. The board then approved five of Gocdvvorth's nine budget cutting suggestions. The board voted "reluctantly" "reluctant-ly" to eliminate the late afternoon activity trips as of Friday, cut back on student buses for actiti vity trips, save money by not hiring a certified replacement for instructor Linda Singer and to decrease the school nurse time from 80 days to 70 days (apparently also at the request of the school nurse). The board declined to approve the cancelling of two teacher aides. They also refused to give up the purchase of a district copy machine or $4,500 for board member convention trips. The total savings in projected project-ed budget cuts equals $18,667 which the. superintendent superin-tendent said he felt the district could get by with at this time. |