District 205 may have breathed some relief after lawmakers passed an education budget to ensure schools will stay open this year, but Galesburg schools had financial stress even before the impasse.
Tonight Finance Superintendent Jennifer Hamm will present a tentative FY17 budget for the board to approve which is at a $1.9 million deficit.
Hamm tells WGIL this is after the budget reduction process this winter which slashed $2.6 in expenditures.
“A lot of that is due to the fact that we have about $1.2 million in new salaries and benefits to the district in FY17,” Hamm says. “Those are to meet contractual and board approved obligations for pay increases.”
In other business the architect working on repairs to the waterlogged Thiel Gym floor will be on hand tonight to go over the project timeline.
Hamm says he’s speaking with bleacher vendors and flooring contractors.
As a part of the consent agenda board members can approve an agreement with Carl Sandburg College.
The agreement seals a program that allows Galesburg High School students to receive credit for CSC classes, paid for by Pell grants.
It also seems that someone’s feeling generous.There’s a consent item for the board to approval a gift to the district.
While Hamm doesn’t know the nature of the gift she says it’s board policy to approve any donations to the athletic department that are over $26,700.
