Tuesday, January 29, 2013
The district's operating fund deficit is an improvement over what was anticipated last fall, but reduction in general state aid could cause future deficits.
Editor's note: This article has been updated to include response from Edward Hospital. Plainfield School District 202 is projecting a $1.8 million operating fund deficit in its updated budget. The school board on Monday approved putting its amended budget on public display for 30 days. The $1.8 million deficit is an improvement over last September’s anticipated deficit of about $8.9 million. At the time, the school board was required by law to file its budget, but noted that it would be updating the budget throughout the year and filing an amendment this winter. Related: Plainfield School Board Approves $198 Million Tax Levy Among the savings include eliminating some positions that were included in the budget as placeholders only in the …
Tuesday, November 20, 2012
Non-personnel cuts and additional revenue has reduced a once-anticipated $8.9 million operating fund deficit down to $1.8 million.
Plainfield School District 202 administrators have a clearer picture of the 2012-13 budget, which now projects a $1.8 million deficit, district officials said Monday. The District 202 board adopted the budget in September with a projected $8.9 million operating fund deficit. While the board was required by law to file a budget in September, it also knew that work needed to be done to reduce the deficit and an amended budget will be filed this winter. The district was able to save about $5.2 million in non-personnel cuts, Angela Smith, assistant superintendent of business and operations, said. The biggest reduction – saving about $3 million – came by eliminating about 200 vacant teaching, administrative and support positions that were kept …
Thursday, November 1, 2012
Village trustees previewed the proposed $20.9 million 2013-14 budget at a Monday night meeting.
Plainfield officials are mulling what village staff called a “status quo” budget that would keep the tax levy the same as last year. But with assessed property values projected to drop villagewide, Director of Management Services Traci Pleckham said the village’s tax rate would have to increase to generate the proposed $5.1 million in property taxes. “It will change the homeowners’ rate, but the dollar amount [of the levy] will stay the same,” Pleckham said. The tax levy is the amount of property taxes a governing body asks the Will County treasurer to collect on its behalf to fund its operating expenses. Get Plainfield news delivered straight to your inbox — sign up for Plainfield Patch’s newsletter. The current rate is about 43 cents per…
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Projected $8.9 million deficit will mean cost-cutting measures, school officials said.
The same night they announced plans to look for a new superintendent, the District 202 Board of Education on Monday approved the district 2012-13 budget with a projected $8.9 million operating fund deficit. The board will file an amended budget in late fall or early winter once it determines any cost-cutting measures it can implement or get further clarification on how the state of Illinois plans to fund education and the teacher pension obligations. The district also has about $7.5 million in surplus from the 2011-12 budget, and the board of education may use some or all of that surplus to pare down the deficit. The district is looking at non-personnel cuts first to help eliminate the deficit, board president Roger Bonuchi said. The 2012-…
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
District 202 board to also consider placing locked gun safes in the district high schools and granted a five-year tax abatement to a global baked goods manufacturer
Plainfield District 202 has put its 2012-13 budget on public display with a projected $8.9 million operating fund deficit. While the school board is preparing to adopt the budget next month with a deficit, it is also working on ways to erase it and will likely file an updated amended budget with the state in early 2013. Finances continue to change weekly, district officials said. Last month, the district anticipated an operating fund deficit of $8.1 million, but then district officials learned that its general state aid dropped by about $1.2 million. Other revenues, including Title I, funding increased. Meanwhile, state officials are trying to decide if teacher pension plan responsibilities will be shifted to local school districts. “We’re…
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
A drop in state aid and rising expenses will leave the district with a $10 million operating fund deficit. Board also honored Niehus award recipient at June 25 meeting.
Plainfield School District 202 is expected to be about $10 million in the red by the end of next year, according to information provided by the district. Elementary, middle and high school and departmental budgets have already been cut, but those cost control measures will likely not be enough to cover an operating fund deficit of about $10 million because of anticipated lower general state aid, district officials said. The deficit is about double the operating fund deficit projected earlier this year. According to preliminary budget information, the state’s plan to prorate general state aid revenue at 89 percent of eligible expenses will cost the district $4.7 million. Also, according to the budget information, revenues other than general…
Sunday, June 3, 2012
It's always good to be caught up on state politics. Here's an easy guide to what happened this week.
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Sunday, June 3, 2012
Editor's Note: This article was created by aggregating news articles from Illinois Statehouse News that were written by various Illinois Statehouse News reporters. SPRINGFIELD — The Illinois General Assembly passed a budget — almost on time — Thursday, with the Senate ending about 1:30 a.m. Friday. The budget spends $33.7 billion for the 2013 general fund — the result of months of negotiations, hearings and a dizzying array of spending and appropriations bills with last-minute amendments upon amendments. The budget, made up of several bills in the House and Senate, includes $6.5 billion for K-12 education, $1.9 billion for higher education, $5 billion for health and human services, and $1.6 billion for public safety. In a testament to how …
Sunday, May 20, 2012
It's always good to be caught up on state politics. Here's an easy guide to what happened this week.
Editor's Note: This article was created by aggregating news articles from Illinois Statehouse News that were written by various Illinois Statehouse News reporters. SPRINGFIELD — Illinois lawmakers must craft next year’s budget and fix huge deficits by May 31, but the closest they came to addressing those problems was a proposal to tax online gambling. Other issues from a proposed minimum wage increases to the Nation of Islam were getting everyone’s attention, as well. Betting on time, taxing iGaming Senate President John Cullerton, D-Chicago, wants legislators to approve his plan to tax and regulateInternet gambling in Illinois before Congress keeps the state’s hands off the industry. Under Cullerton’s proposal, a new Division of …
Sunday, February 26, 2012
It's always good to be caught up on state politics. Here's an easy guide to what happened this week.
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Sunday, February 26, 2012
Editor's Note: This article was created by aggregating news articles from Illinois Statehouse News that were written by various Illinois Statehouse News reporters. SPRINGFIELD — Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn's budget proposal tops 400 pages and is more than 3 inches thick. Inside the governor's plan for the next fiscal year, which begins in June, are the details of how he wants to spend $33.9 billion in taxpayers’ money. Illinois Statehouse News examines the governor's plan, speaking with lawmakers and outside experts and checking Quinn's math to make sure that dollars add up. Bigger than last year Quinn’s fiscal 2013 spending plan is $700 million more than the current budget, an increase that will pay for the increase in the state's …
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Spending cuts, union contract savings and grant money should result in a surplus of more than a half million dollar when fiscal year ends this summer, officials said.
Federal grants not budgeted for in September, savings from union contracts and a 5 percent budget reduction are among the reasons for an anticipated Plainfield School District 202 budget surplus this fiscal year. In less than four months, the district has turned a nearly $9.2 million deficit into a $557,000 anticipated surplus for the 2012 fiscal year, without cutting staff or major programs, said John Prince, assistant superintendent for business and operations. The school board on Monday put the amended budget on public display for 30 days and is expected to approve it Feb. 13. The district received $630,000 in new federal grant revenue that was not anticipated in September. It includes $130,000 in additional Title I funds, which is …
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John Tips
1:22 pm on Sunday, February 3, 2013
They charge High School student to park at the schools - why not charge the teachers as well? We pay an exuberant amount in property taxes with the majority being the school districts - time to tighten your belt and live within your means! The school board need a lesson in economics - which must be a class they all FAILED in high school! more ›