Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Negotiating School Budgets

Well… spent most of the day fielding phone calls on budget issues (When we weren’t voting on that one bill). The k-12 budget is the toughest one for administrators to deal with, because we’re already into their fiscal year and programs are already established.

We get that down here. The biggest problem is that school budgets are so tightly woven into constitutional revenue, such as property tax and sales tax, that this isn’t much room to wiggle. Two years ago, we could back fill budget holes with general fund. This year, there are no extra dollars.

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