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YORK, Maine An emergency meeting of the York School Committee has been called for Monday night to discuss what steps leaders should take after voters rejected one piece of the Fiscal Year 2022 budget proposal.
Warrant Article 39 would have authorized about $456,800 for All Other Expenditures related to the town s schools. But because York residents rejected the article, with a vote of 1,433-1,438 during Saturday s budget referendum, the appropriation for that line item will revert to the Fiscal Year 2021 amount: about $77,500.
The article funds non-instructional services, including employee benefits and the Volunteer Services Program that oversees community involvement in the York Schools, according to a statement of fact that appeared on the ballot.
YORK, Maine – Keeping students and staff safe from COVID-19 hasn t been cheap. But unanticipated expenses aren’t the only financial curveballs complicating the York School Department s budgeting process. Local leaders have also been debating what to do with their unanticipated savings.
The school district made sure each student had their own computer to support the hybrid learning model, hired additional staff to meet educational needs related to COVID-19, and improved ventilation systems in school buildings, according to Superintendent Lou Goscinski. All of those big-ticket items and more fell outside the district s budget but were covered by federal coronavirus relief funds, without which the district would have been unable to make the needed safety-minded investments, Goscinski said.