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| Monmouth-Roseville Superintendent Still Making Way Through Finances |
Figuring out how to solve years worth deficits in the Monmouth-Roseville School District, even though the consolidated district has only been in operation for five years, is proving to be tough for the district's new Superintendent.
Paul Woehlke told the District-238 board Tuesday night he had hoped to have a three-year budget deficit reduction plan for the board to vote on last night, but he says some last minute number changes made that impossible, meaning he'll call a special meeting two weeks from yesterday to make that final.
Woehlke says he does know that in a sense, the district has been in rough financial shape since Monmouth and Roseville first consolidated.
"Over these five years, counting this budget year as the fifth year, our revenue has grown at an average annual rate of three percent, but our expenditures have grown at 3.7 percent," Woehlke said. "Obviously, that's a recipe for increasing deficits over the full period, and that's in fact what we see."
Woehlke says the most concerning area of expense growth has been in health insurance -- the costs of which have gone up an average of ten-percent a year.
Woehlke says he also wants to look at various purchased services, which have grown an average of 15 percent a year, though he admits he has yet to seriously look at why that might be the case.
The Monmouth-Roseville School Board Tuesday night approved a project to turn make two restrooms at Central Early Childhood Center handicapped-accessible. Woehlke says right now, none of them are. |
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