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pay raises for supervisor, drivers, and mechanics, and an extension of bus runs to include 35 additional days for a fall activity bus and summer school transportation.
• $265,138, an increase of 28 percent, for operation and maintenance of school plants, including an additional custodial position, seven percent pay raises for current personnel, a long list of equipment to be repaired or replaced, $15,000 for a dechlorinator for the elementary school’s sewage treatment system, $4,700 for sand for the high school’s treatment system, painting six classrooms at each school, gravel for the central office parking lot, compliance with the new federal asbestos removal program, repairs to sinks and cabinets at the elementary school, and $5,000 to buy the Social Service Department’s pick-up truck.
• $20,000 in capital outlay, going primarily for the relocation of mobile units from the high school to the elementary school.
• An increase of almost 90 percent — from $45,393 to $86,055 —for debt service, reflecting the $41,000 in interest on the literary loan for the high school expansion project. (If the work isn’t completed by August, that interest payment will go up another $7,000, according to Dr. Gangel.)
The superintendent pointed out that between $100,000 and $114,000 of the increase in the proposed school budget is related to the RCHS expansion, including the additional custodian required for the 16 percent increase in high school floor space, increased custodial supplies, additional fuel, and higher electric bills as well as the literary loan interest and repayment.
He described the proposed spending plan as “realistic” and noted that it is not the superintendent’s proposed budget but rather the result of the superintendent working with all school employees.
Dr. Gaugel's presentation was made to the board members and an audience of just three: teachers Lynne Baines and Helen LaCava and parent Sharon Kilpatrick. There were few questions and fewer comments, but a lot of head shaking over the shifting of education funds and other sleight-of-hand tricks from Richmond.
“It looks pretty good to me,” concluded School Board member Bryant Lee. “I’d like to look closer at it and ask questions when we come back.”
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