Tuesday, June 21, 2011
A week before a Special Town Meeting is scheduled in Hamilton, Selectmen vote 3-2 to support a $500,000 "giveback" from the school budget.
A divided Hamilton Board of Selectmen on Monday reaffirmed its support of a $500,000 so-called giveback from the school budget. Chairman Jennifer Scuteri plus Selectmen David Carey and Jeff Stinson supported the $500,000 giveback while Selectmen Jeff Hubbard and Marc Johnson said they favored the $300,000 giveback that’s part of the School Committee’s budget that it certified on June 9. At issue is the school budget, which is scheduled to go before Hamilton voters at a Special Town Meeting scheduled for Monday, June 27 at 7 p.m. at Winthrop Elementary School. Earlier this month, the School Committee certified a budget with a $300,000 giveback, calling it a compromise between earlier, separate votes in Hamilton and Wenham. The debate …
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Hamilton Town Hall
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Friday, May 13, 2011
The Hamilton Board of Selectmen and Finance Committee outlined their support of a school budget that is $500,000 less than the School Committee's budget in a position paper released on Friday mrning.
The Hamilton Board of Selectmen outlined its support of a $500,000 “giveback” for the school budget in a position paper released Friday morning. The two page paper was finalized when the Selectmen met on Friday morning and comes in advance of Hamilton Town Meeting on Saturday at 9 a.m. at Hamilton-Wenham Regional High School. “This recommendation is based on several months of review of school finances that have shown significant budgeting errors, accumulation of funds that should have been spent for school programs, and audits of school spending,” the paper states. The paper (attached as a PDF to this article) outlines in a question and answer format its support of the giveback - a term that has been used to describe the amount of money …
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Hamilton Town Hall
577 Bay Rd, South Hamilton, MA
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Hamilton-Wenham Regional High School
775 Bay Rd, South Hamilton, MA
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Friday, April 8, 2011
The School Committee approved a $27.15 million budget on Thursday night that includes putting $350,000 towards a reserve account rather than "giving it back" as has been proposed in both town budgets.
The School Committee approved a 2012 budget on Thursday night that requires level funding from both Hamilton and Wenham but proposes spending more than either town has proposed in its own version of the budget. At issue was whether $350,000 goes into the school excess and deficiency, or “E and D” account - essentially a savings account - or whether it’s removed from the budget as a “giveback” to the towns. In the end, the committee endorsed a $27.15 million budget that included the $350,000 going into the excess and deficiency fund. It was a 7-2 vote, with members Don Gallant and Ann Minois in opposition. Since Minois and Gallant comprise two-third of the School Committee’s Finance Subcommittee, the smaller budget was actually brought to …
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Hamilton-Wenham Regional School District
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Betty Gray
11:01 am on Tuesday, June 21, 2011
The divisivness is not the money - it is the arrogance of the school committe in thinking that they own this money. They were over-budgeted and they need to five it back. more ›