School Committee meeting on budget tonight

The School Committee will be going over the school budget at their regular meeting tonight, at City Hall, at 7 p.m. This is the time when people should be paying attention to see what kinds of cuts are in store for our schools. I'm not sure how they will decide what budget to submit to the City Council since we still don't know how much money we will get from the State and probably won't know until June. It always seems that these budget decisions have to take place in a vacuum because we don't have all the information. (The Senate budget proposal mentioned in the last post also contains provisions to streamline the system so that school districts will be able to predict more accurately the amount of State aid they will receive.)

The meeting is open to the public, or you can watch on Cable Channel 10.

There will also be two public hearings on the budget next week on Monday, May 22 and Thursday, May 25. Both meetings are at 7 p.m. at City Hall and will be broadcast on Channel 10.