Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Even though a budget hearing was held as part of Monday's night meeting, no citizens came forward to speak or ask questions.
Smyrna City Council was presented with the preliminary Fiscal Year 2013 budget at Monday’s Smyrna City Council meeting with several representatives acknowledging that it still needs work. The Breakdown Monica Jones, the city’s budget officer, presented a $73,372,785 budget that breaks down to $38,536,854 for the general fund, $12,931,030 for special revenues and $21,904,785 for the water and sewer fund. The budget is balanced without tax increases, furlough days, layoffs, use of reserve funds or cuts to city services and is based on a rate of 8.99 mills. Jones reported that the city has not increased its millage rate since 1991. She said that although the city wasn’t able to collect more property tax revenue this year, other miscellaneous …
Friday, May 18, 2012
Tim Stultz, Post 2 school board member, said he opposes what he called "temporary fixes" to balance the budget.
The Cobb County School Board failed to pass a balanced budget for fiscal year 2013 at its meeting Thursday, but Tim Stultz, Post 2 board member representing Smyrna schools, is already thinking ahead to 2014 and 2015. “I just can’t get past the fact of there’s a larger problem here than just trying to balance this year’s budget,” he said. “I would rather try to tackle larger problems sooner than later. I just can’t support any more temporary fixes.” In April the school board approved a preliminary budget that featured 350 fewer teachers through attrition, five furlough days for all full-time employees, 175 school days, the use of $21.2 million from reserves, school library paraprofessionals’ hours cut to 60 percent time, a half-year delay …
Tim Stultz, Smyrna's school board representative, proposed balancing the budget through personnel cuts.
The Cobb County School District has to go back to the chalkboard after the Board of Education failed to approve the fiscal 2013 budget Thursday night. The school board has until June 30 to pass a budget for the year that starts July 1, but after the extensive, often passionate debate Thursday, the path forward is unclear. A special meeting will be scheduled to search for an answer. The seven board members staked out at least four distinct positions on the proposed $841.9 million budget—none of them matching the administration's recommendation. Superintendent Michael Hinojosa and Chief Financial Officer Mike Addison entered the meeting recommending the same budget that the school board passed April 26 on a preliminary basis. It features 350…
Oscar G.
1:24 am on Tuesday, June 12, 2012
Actually 504ATL, RRoO do not apply at the council meetings, per our city's attorney. more ›