STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
WINCHESTER SCHOOL DISTRICT
WARRANT FOR 2011-2012
WINCHESTER SCHOOL DISTRICT
WARRANT FOR 2011-2012
To the inhabitants of the town of Winchester in the County of Cheshire in the State of New Hampshire, qualified to vote in school affairs:
You are hereby notified to meet at the Winchester School Gymnasium at 7:00pm on Thursday, February 10th, 2011 to consider the following articles in Deliberative Session pursuant to RSA 40:13. The official voting of the business of the School District as determined at the deliberative session and the election of School District Officers will be held at the Winchester Town Hall on Tuesday, March 8th between the hours of 8:00 A.M. and 7:00 P.M.
ARTICLE ONE: Shall the Winchester School Distric raise and appropriate as an operating budget, not including appropriations by special warrant articles and other appropriations voted separately, the amounts set forth on the budget posted with the warrant or as amended by vote of the first session, for the purposes set forth therein, totaling $10,500,000?
Should this article be defeated, the default budget shall be $11,112,784, which is the same as last year, with certain adjustments required by previous action of the Winchester School District or by law or the governing body may hold one special meeting, in accordance with RSA 40:13, X and XVI to take up the issue of a revised operating budget only.
ARTICLE TWO: To see if the Winchester School District will vote to approve the cost item included in the collective bargaining agreement reached between the Winchester School Board and the Winchester Teachers Association which calls for the following increases in salaries and benefits at the current staffing levels:
Fiscal Year Estimated Increase
2011 - 2012 $37,306
2012 - 2013 $57,495
2013 - 2014 $71,722
and further to raise and appropriate the sum of $37,306 for the upcoming fiscal year, such sum representing the additional costs attributable to the increases in salaries and benefits required by the new agreement over those that would be paid at current staffing levels in accordance with the most recent collective bargaining agreement. ( NOTE: pursuant to RSA273-A:12 if approved, the terms of this collective bargaining agreement, including the pay plan, but excluding cost of living increases, will remain in effect until a new agreement is executed. ) The School Board and Budget Committee recommends this appropriation.
ARTICLE THREE: To see if the Winchester School District will vote to approve the cost item included in the collective bargaining agreement reached between the Winchester School Board and the Winchester Support Staff Association which calls for the increase in salaries and benefits at the current staffing levels:
Fiscal Year Estimated Increases
2011 - 2012 $8,338
and further to raise and appropriate the sum of $8,338. for the upcoming fiscal year, such sum representing the additional costs attributable to the increases in salaries and benefits required by the new agreement over those that would be paid at current staffing levels in accordance with the most recent collective bargaining agreement. ( NOTE: persuant to RSA273-A:12 if approved, the terms of this collective bargaining agreement, including the pay plan, but excluding cost of living increases, will remain in effect until a new agreement is executed. ) The School Board and Budget Committee recommends this appropriation.
ARTICLE FOUR: Shall the Winchester School District, if articles #2 and/or #3 are defeated, authorize the governing body, to call a special meeting, at it's option, to address items #2 and/or #3 cost items only? ( Majority vote )
ARTICLE FIVE: Shall the Winchester School District receive reports of it's agents, auditors, committees and officers?
ARTICLE SIX: Shall the Winchester School District vote to transact any other business as may lawfully come before the meeting?
4 comments:
Well there you have it folks, the real reasons Winchester broke away and formed it's own school district. It's all about the money; not our children. They knew damn well they'd never get these increases to fly if they remained in SAU #38, too many voters to say no way; but here in Winchester they can stack the deck by holding the meeting on a week night and packing it with teachers, their families and others to get their way. Talk about a charade, greed here is the golden rule
Well blog, it looks as though we are going to have to fire teachers in order to pay our taxes. No matter what we do they will get their raises. Of course the rest of us have to p[ay the increases on insurance so there goes our raise and if you are on social security you don't get a raise. However, bottom line if we go with a default budget it says to me you will have to do a RIF. There's only so much money!If that's what they want then so be it! RIF here we come and you can start with Dr. "C" and company. Perhaps we can eliminate all of the paras then raises won't seem so bad.
It's too bad that the original budget request from the school wasn't shown somewhere. It's even higher than the default budget. The budget committee recommended a substantial decrease this year. If state aid is cut in the future, those kind of numbers will put more houses on the market or foreclosure. This is not the year to be complacent.
To 1:07 PM - you would have found that even those that attended the budget hearing didn't get all of the information either. No disclosure!
One of the things that I do not believe the School Board is verifying (because they are relying on Dr. C to supply everything), is what is the Administrator getting from Hinsdale? They might just find out that they doubled their salaries with this deal!
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