Niagara Falls School District business officials Markesia McCreary and Julie Jacklin will present to the Niagara Community Information Group at 6:30 p.m. Monday on the topic at the Niagara Falls Underground Railroad Heritage Museum.
NCIG has been hosting monthly education meetings typically drawing between 40 and 60 people.
Patchy rain nearby, with a high of 54 and low of 31 degrees. Don't forget your umbrella! Sunny in the morning, patchy rain nearby for the afternoon, clear overnight.
As predicted, this budget message highlights challenges—but avoids accountability. Many of the so-called ‘unexpected’ costs are predictable in public education. Refusing to raise the tax levy for over a decade may sound responsible, but it has likely contributed to the very need to now use reserves.
I don't fully understand how it works, but the district is supposedly close to the tax cap. In other words, it likely has little wiggle room to increase the tax levy. I only know the problem, not the solution.
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