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Monmouth-Roseville Committee to Make Budget Cut Proposal February 25th -- DEFICIT REDUCTION LINKS AVAILABLE HERE
FIRST REPORTED 9:00am 2/10/10 The superintendent of the Monmouth-Roseville School District says a committee set up is almost ready to make its set of recommendations on how to cut a six-figure budget deficit thanks to what has become the usual suspect -- the State of Illinois.

Paul Woehlke says the District-238 school board Tuesday night approved a special meeting scheduled now for February 25th, where the district's Deficit Reduction Committee will present their ideas. The public, a week later, will be invited to a forum where they will get to give their input as well.

Woehlke tells WGIL since being formed literally only in the last month, the Deficit Reduction Committee has worked quite hard.

"It has been an intensive process," Woehlke said. "They certainly surfaced a lot of items for consideration. Probably the toughest job is still ahead, which is to work that down into a list of which items are actually recommended, and what items are identified as being available for the second layer, as we call it, of our problem."

Woehlke says the first part of the problem is the half-million dollar deficit the district is trying to deal with now, in part, because of money the state hasn't yet paid. The second part is a nine-percent cut in state education spending he says he's still hearing rumblings about, that has a pretty good chance of coming to fruition.

The District-238 board could vote on the proposed cuts as soon as March 9th.

For more information on the Deficit Reduction Plan, CLICK HERE.
02 10 10 by Newsroom
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