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General News: Spending and Saving in the Cornwall Schools
October 28, 2009
The Cornwall Central School District is proposing a major renovation of the middle school auditorium at the same time that it is considering a move to slow spending district-wide. While the two moves are apparently unrelated, they both stem from the system that the state of New York has established to fund local schools.
School superintendent Timothy Rehm said that the prospect of a mid-year cut in state aid to schools will lead him to issue a notice to all school employees to freeze or slow down spending, a move that he took last year when cuts were threatened. At Monday’s school board meeting, Rehm said that he is more concerned about the state cutting funds this year because both the senate and the assembly agree that something has to be done to offset the state’s budget deficit. The government has called a special legislative session on November 10th in Albany to talk about proposed cuts.
On the positive side, superintendent Rehm explained that the district has not spent $280,000 of funds it had received in 2007 to install elevators in three elementary schools. Rehm said the projects came in way under budget and that he is proposing to the board of the education that the remaining funds be used to replace seating and fix the floor in the middle school auditorium, along with other repair jobs at the 53-year-old building.
Harvey Sotland, the district’s assistant superintendent of business, explained that if the district doesn’t use the money, it will lose it. He also described how the $280,000 would be the district’s contribution to a state matching fund that would mean the entire $700,000 project could be done with no cost at all to local taxpayers.
Voters would have to approve the spending in a special referendum if the board of education agrees with the superintendent’s proposal, which he plans to present in greater detail at the board’s work session next month.
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