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The INDEPENDENT, June 20, 2002
anks will weather budget woes...if legislature does homework
Banks School District should
be able to absorb about half of
the shortfall left by the failure of
M easure 13, S uperintendent
M arilyn M cG lasson told the
board of directors at their meet
ing June 10th. The board also
discussed changes in the math
curriculum , out-of-state field
trips, and approved the 2002-
2003 budget. Following execu
tive session, the board ap
proved a salary schedule for
adm inistrative and non-bar
gaining employees. The pro
posed 2002-2003 budget was
adopted after no comment dur
ing the public hearing held as
part of the board meeting.
Answering questions about
how the district can pass a bud
get when the revenue available
is uncertain M cGlasson ex-
plained that the budget repre
sents a maxim um spending
limit. The district can under
spend the adopted budget with
out any further involvement of
the board or the budget com
mittee. Administrators will use
the guiding principles approved
by the board to make decisions
about where to limit spending in
their budgets. McGlasson said
the district would be very care
ful not to spend any money un
til revenue has been received
to cover the expense.
The administrative team is
developing an incremental plan
of action. McGlasson said that
spending would be limited first
in budget areas that do not di
rectly affect students. For ex
am ple, the math textbook
adoption will be delayed until
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$400,000 in the Banks District
and $220 million in the state
school fund. According to Mc
Glasson, the legislature is ex
pected to put at least half of
that amount back in the state
school fund. However, some
portion of the decision may be
referred to the voters. If that is
the case, it w on’t be voted on
until Septem ber a n d -if ap-
proved -the money w on’t be
available locally until October.
After many years of delayed
text book adoptions, math texts
in the Banks district are 12
years old. The state operates a
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cycle. According to McGlasson,
previous adm inistrations had
limited spending by purchasing
only classroom sets of texts
and som etim es skipping an
adoption cycle. As a result, the
availability of textbooks, partic
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tre m e ly lim ite d and the y are
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