Posted: Tuesday, June 19, 2007 12:00 am
LEBANON - The Lebanon School Board on Monday voted 3-2 to adopt a budget for next year that adds to the district's special education, nursing and college preparation programs.
Board members adopted the budget as approved by the budget committee, without making changes.
Board members Rick Alexander and Josh Wineteer voted no. Both have said in past meetings they would have preferred a budget that added more teaching positions.
The total budget is $44,956,110, with a general fund of $33,428,845.
The ending fund balance, which is the contingency fund, is approximately $1 million, or 3.2 percent of the total.
The budget adds two special education positions, a half-time school nurse, a counselor and a secretary to handle an early-college program called Beyond LHS, and a half-time person to coordinate a college-application program known as ASPIRE.
The budget also maintains the 3.5 high school hall monitors that had been paid for by the Linn-Benton-Lincoln Education Service District, and fully funds a district office position, director of student achievement, instead of having it paid for by grants.
Democrat-Herald