Sounds like the expense side of the budget is a 1% increase.
How about the revenue side?tax assessemnts are way down? state aid? Replacing one shot funding from last year?
Are they buying down the tax rate again?
We keep hearing about the large sums of money we have in reserve however most of our reserves are earmarked for projects (as per the school outside auditor).
When Doc J gets back from interviewing elsewhere , maybe he'll tell us the truth? Last years presentation was inflated by the presentation on how "well" our schools were supposedly doing! So we gave him a merit bonus !