Batavia schools budgeting 1.3 percent increase in spending
The Batavia school district has planned a budget for the 2015-16 fiscal year that calls for spending about 1.3 percent more than this year.
The school board received the $87.6 million draft budget Tuesday. It will put the final draft on public display in August, and conduct a public hearing Sept. 22. It has to approve the budget by the end of September.
It will also have a budget workshop meeting sometime in early August.
The budget assumes the district will receive $659,107 more in property taxes, and $185,000 more in student fees. Tuesday, the board increased the registration fee by $75, to pay for Chromebook computers for students in kindergarten through fifth grade.
It also factors in an 11.5 percent increase in the cost of medical insurance, and projects a decrease in general state aid of $285,800.
The state aid is based on an assumption the current proration rate, 89 percent, continues. A change in the proration rate, including changing the formula, could mean a loss of $500,000 to $1.8 million, according to Assistant Superintendent for Business Kris Monn.
The budget calls for spending about $100,000 less in the individual department and school budgets, and $252,182 less to pay off debt.
It expects a $4,685 surplus of revenue over expenditures in the operating funds. However, one of those funds, the education fund, may run a $1.1 million deficit.