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Cost Savings Realized By School District Budget Cut Plan
An official with the Galesburg School District said Thursday that the program implemented a school year ago to save money has worked pretty much exactly the way it was supposed to.

Assistant Superintendent for Finance and Operations Guy Cahill told the school board's budget committee last night that one-point-eight million dollars was saved by "Operation Program-Job Save". The cuts were needed thanks to the state's budget mess.

But Cahill tells WGIL not as much money was saved as initially needed.

"It was helped extremely by the federal government extending their era program with what they call an infusion of edu-job money," he says. "That's 'fed speak' for support money in the school districts throughout the country to provide them another single year of one time money to supplement their budgets."

Cahill says he'll provide more details to the full District-205 School Board at their meeting Monday night.

The District-205 board's building committee also met Thursday night, and approved drawings for the renovations to Lombard Middle School under the Master Facilities plan. The full board also will consider that Monday.

The committee members and others then got the chance to tour the so-called "Zephyr Dome" -- long thought to be infested by bats and bat droppings, and long thought to be uninhabitable. The district still wants to tear the building down, but Regional Superintendent of Schools Bonnie Harris has refused to sign the building permit.
09 08 11 by Newsroom
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