Schools
Full Agenda for Amity Board of Ed Tonight
Artificial Turf, budgets, and voting on Amity Budget by a meeting rather than referendum to be discussed
The Amity Board of Education will meet in the Presentation Room at the District Offices, tonight at 6:30 p.m. (Agenda PDF attached)
The agenda item that may slip by without anyone noticing, but could make a world of difference comes later in the meeting. This is within the Superintendent's Report, in which there will be a discussion of changing the tri-town Amity Budget Referendum to a District Meeting, therefore possibly making it easier for the budget to pass. (In past years the Amity budget had gone through multiple referenda before it was approved.)
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Orange residents, especially should pay attention to this, since the latest numbers coming from the budget talks would increase Orange's contribution to the Amity budget from around $500,000 to $1.2 million in 2012-13.
Also, among the items of interest are possible approval to Support Community Fund Raising Efforts to Purchase and Install an Artificial Turf Field at Amity High School.
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Announcements regarding Indoor Air Quality, the upcoming budget presentation to the AFC on Jan. 23 at 5:30 p.m., and the budget presentation to the BOE on Jan. 30 at 6:30 p.m.
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