Strategies for Cutting Budgets

"But next year, Riverview is expecting to cut about 6 percent of its budget, Nugent said. So the hope, he said, is that the advisory committee will come up with a balanced, fair set of recommendations for the School Board to adopt this spring.

"We've asked them to help us find wisdom," Nugent said."

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Districts need to plan for budgets far before there is community input and superintendents determine how to set up the process. These are some of the strategies:

1. Advisory Committee studies the issues and makes recommendations

2. Executive-type cabinet brainstorms cuts and shares with the community through:

a. Survey
b. Community Forums

3. Some communities are looking at using BLOGs to get community input

4. District decides and the Board adopts

5. Task Force including all Associations work together to prioritize budget adjustments