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By THOMAS LUCKIE III North Country Now OGDENSBURG – The Ogdensburg City School District Board of Education began early discussions to begin planning a proposed 2019-2020 school year budget at …
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By THOMAS LUCKIE III
North Country Now
OGDENSBURG – The Ogdensburg City School District Board of Education began early discussions to begin planning a proposed 2019-2020 school year budget at Monday’s meeting.
The athletic, secondary and buildings and grounds departments provided the board with anticipated expenses related to purchasing materials, supplies and equipment. No action was required by the board.
The proposed budget for the district’s athletic department totals $594,050, marking a five percent increase of $28,200 over the department’s budget for current school year. Coaches and supervisory staff salaries were included in the athletic department’s proposed budget.
Budgeted salaries for coaches carry a $20,000 increase and BOCES services for the Section X offices represent an increase of $10,000.
The athletic department expects to find some savings in equipment and miscellaneous revenue totaling $7,000 to help lower the overall increase in the proposed budget.
The materials, supplies and equipment budgets both Ogdensburg Free Academy Middle and High Schools will see no increase over the current school year.
The proposed budget for grades 7-8 will remain $48,000 and represent a cost of $182.51 per pupil.
In the high school, the continuing budget of $113,000 will represent a cost of $220.27 per pupil.
The buildings and grounds department’s proposed budget also included salaried and hourly employees and notes an anticipated increase of $49,400, which marks a 1.7% change over the current school year’s budget. The proposed department budget totals $2.93 million.
Board member Lawrence Mitchell asked Supervisor of Buildings and Grounds James McCarthy if the district had seen any savings from the installation of high efficiency LED lighting.
“Not as much as we had hoped,” McCarthy said.
Lighting upgrades over the past few years have included the installation of LED lighting in the Edgar A. Newell II Memorial Golden and on the grounds of Ogdensburg Free Academy.
McCarthy also pointed out that the district is a participant in a solar energy consortium and that he is currently researching LED stadium lighting for the athletic complex, which is fairly recent technology.
The annual school budget vote will be held in May.
