Canyon Elementary appears to have earned a reprieve, at least for one year.
The School District 6 board took a first look at a new plan that would cut staff at the Hungry Horse school, but allow it to remain open next year.
"With this plan and other cuts I'm looking at we could maintain our current status," Superintendent Mike Nicosia told the board Monday.
Teaching and staff positions would be cut at the school.
I have some interesting information regarding the Canyon Elementary School that will help illuminate recent machinations that I am sure several individuals would rather keep in the dark. This school is facing a serious budget shortfall contributed to, in part, by the expense of a new septic system that was recently installed.
I will be posting several e-mail messages that will help explain things and describe what exactly happened.
I think you need to pay attention to budget rules which the school district is tied to. Capital projects are a separate line item from operations (day-to-day expenses), the latter one they are REQUIRED by law to balance. So even if they had kept the money from the sale of Coram school in a bank account, they would not have been able to use it for expenses. The FACTS are the school has died from it's own lack of use and population shifts. Get over it or do something about it financially.
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