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Rochester School Budget Will Be Put to a Vote Tonight

School lunch prices, Chartwells contract renewal and school bus purchases are also on the agenda.

 

The Rochester Board of Education is expected to vote Monday night on the 2012-13 school district budget. 

The general fund budget, as proposed, is $157 million; it encompasses about $5 million in borrowed funding from the district's $22 million fund balance. 

The proposed budget includes the privatization of custodian and transportation services, which the board approved earlier this year. There are details about the budget hearing here.

In addition to the public hearing on the budget, board members will consider the following:

  • Chartwells School Dining services. The administration is recommending their contract be renewed next year.
  • School lunch prices. The administration team is recommending that lunch prices remain the same next year: elementary lunch is $2.80, secondary lunch is $3.05 and breakfast is $1.30. 
  • Three school buses. Board members will consider the purchase of three school buses for a price not to exceed $269,439. The bus purchases are a necessity stemming from the change to all-day, everyday kindergarten. 
  • Speed limit signs at Musson Elementary.
  • Revisions to the district's Internet Safety Policy. The revisions put the policy in line with national Children's Internet Protection Act and specify that school staff will work to educate and monitor students on Internet use. 
  • Contract extensions for more than 60 school administrators.
  • Revisions to the district's Anti-Bullying policy.
  • Virtual Learning Academy. The board will vote on an intergovernmental agreement with Oakland Schools for the online learning program.

The board meets at 7 p.m. in the Harrison Room of the school administration building. The meeting is open to the public.

Related Topics: 2012-13 School Budget
What do your kids say about Chartwells lunches? Tell us in the comments.

Cameron Bellestri

8:36 am on Monday, June 18, 2012

I would hope the school board would think about an alternative to the current school lunches. Bosco sticks and fruit cups with high fructose corn syrup?? Really?? Unacceptable! The lunches served are not healthy. It would be so much easier to just let my daughters buy lunch but I don't have it in me to allow them to eat all of that processed junk. Please consider a less processed alternative.

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mary clark

1:20 pm on Friday, June 22, 2012

Have you asked your children and their friends what they think of the food that Chartwells serves? Neighborhood children where I live don't like it. They go to Baldwin.

mary clark

1:18 pm on Friday, June 22, 2012

Chartwells doesn't have a good reputation. Just ask students at Oakland Univ. and other surrounding districts. Better yet, ask RCS students.

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Frank

7:49 am on Saturday, June 23, 2012

Chartwells is AWFUL! But dont bother telling the superintendent or school board all they will do is give you lip service and send you on your way.....The new superintendent needs to be sent packing!

mary clark

3:46 pm on Friday, June 22, 2012

Why does RCS have to buy more busses? They don't have a transportation dept. anymore. Let the outsourced company buy them. Rcs has to stop wasting money. Nice to see administrators contracts have been extended. Guess none of them will be outsourced.

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Marty Rosalik

9:08 pm on Friday, June 22, 2012

I believe they are keeping ownership of the busses as a back up. Some private companies wait until the district has sold the fleet and then the next contract costs much more than the old way of running the system.

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Frank

7:57 am on Saturday, June 23, 2012

Well there is no doubt we are getting ripped off with our superintendent. He just flat out needs to go. I am pulling my child from RCS and sending her to private school next year. It says enough when we are out sourcing when we have administrators and asst superintendents that have to carry each other's bags just to look like they are so needed. Dont get me started about the whole Rowland management of Rochester High, the second reason my child is leaving RCS.....He is a joke and the kids laugh at him. Why was Eric Williams not given the position. He was a better candidate, but wait Rowland is the puppy dog of the under superintendent of curriculum so he keeps his position despite the miserable job he and his staff are doing.

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