The Mount Vernon School Board approved roughly $640,000 in budget cuts for the upcoming fiscal year at its March 27 meeting. The cuts are intended to bring down the district’s unspent balance and start improving the district’s solvency ratio.
The board elected to join a risk pool for fuel costs and move fuel costs to the management fund, reducing $100,000 in general fund expenditures. At the school board meeting on April 8, the management committee and superintendent Greg Batenhorst approved additional cuts to consensus items, including:
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