On May 27, Gossips reported that if voters reject the budget proposed for 2020-2021, the district's only recourse would be to adopt the contingency budget, which was the same as the current year's budget. I was wrong. The "Budget News" flyer that arrived in the mail yesterday indicates exactly what the contingency budget is.
The budget for the 2019-2020 school year was $49,792,463. The contingency budget for 2020-2021, which HCSD superintendent Maria Suttmeier said "squeezes out everything that motivates students to come to school," is $50,550,494--only $134,244 less than the proposed budget. Compare that amount with the numbers at the top of the HCSD payroll.
On the topic of the absentee ballots, HCSD reported on its Facebook page today: "The absentee ballots will be mailed no later than the legally required date (June 3) and will be arriving to mailboxes of all registered voters this week."
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During my career I was fortunate enough to study "Multi-Track Education." This is a scheduling mechanism that schedules students to attend school at separate times throughout the school year. This allows for only 2/3 of the student body to be in a school building at any given time. Students attend on a rotating basis where the student population is divided into three groups, or 4 if you like. The trick is knowing how the develop the schedule.
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