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KP School Committee Votes for Level-Services Budget

Board opts to present level services budget to towns.

The King Philip School Committee voted, at its meeting Monday night, to bring a level-services budget to the three towns for approval.

The recommendation for a level-services budget was made by Superintendent Elizabeth Zielinski. There were a number of options available, she said, including an initial request for a 14 percent increase and three possible tiers of cuts.

"We held an where we presented the scenarios involved," she said. "We listened to the community, the subcommittee met and asked me to build a budget based on what we heard from the community."

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According to Zielinski, a level-services budget represents an increase of 10.9 percent over last year's total.

"We had benefited from the jobs bill, which gave us $450,000 over a two-year span," she said. "We spent that this year, so that's money we're not receiving off the bat."

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Zielinski said the district had received the governor's budget proposal since the budget hearing.

"The governor has level-funded Chapter 70 money," she said. "The state provides one-third of what's need to run the district."

She said the state house of representatives would send out its recommendations in February or March, and that a conference budget would likely be out in June.


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