{"id":363,"date":"2007-03-30T10:28:02","date_gmt":"2007-03-30T15:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/?p=363"},"modified":"2007-03-30T10:28:39","modified_gmt":"2007-03-30T15:28:39","slug":"school-budget-dates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/?p=363","title":{"rendered":"School Budget Dates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now that the School Board has received the Superintendent&#8217;s proposed budget, there are several meeting dates scheduled that may be of interest to those following the process.  Also, this year, the proposed budget will be available online (I didn&#8217;t find it posted yet, but it will be), so that the public may follow along through the line-by-line reading and better understand what we&#8217;re working with.<\/p>\n<p>This is, in my view, a tremendous improvement over years past.<\/p>\n<p>Meeting Dates:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Thursday, April 5 &#8212; Board work session on the budget  (SAB, 7 p.m.)<\/li>\n<li>Monday, April 9 &#8212; Special Board Meeting, Public Hearing on the Budget (SAB, 7 p.m.)<\/li>\n<li>Thursday, April 12 &#8212; Special Board Meeting, Adoption of the Budget (SAB, 7 p.m.)<\/li>\n<li>Monday, April 30 &#8212; Schools Budget presented to City Council (Municipal Bldg., 7:30 p.m.)<\/li>\n<li>Monday, May 7 &#8212; City Council Meeting &#8212; 1st Reading of the Budget (Municipal Bldg., 7:30 p.m.)<\/li>\n<li>Monday, May 21 &#8212; City Council Meeting &#8212; 2nd Reading of the Budget (Municipal Bldg., 7:30 p.m.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It&#8217;s likely that there may be an additional meeting or work session scheduled between April 5 and 12, if substantial changes are needed.  Also, this schools budget is based upon the Governor&#8217;s proposed education funding measures; if those are not adopted, then the budget will have to be revised.<\/p>\n<p>Now&#8217;s the time to speak up, Oak Ridge.\u00c2\u00a0 Waiting until Council&#8217;s second reading is too late.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that the School Board has received the Superintendent&#8217;s proposed budget, there are several meeting dates scheduled that may be of interest to those following the process. Also, this year, the proposed budget will be available online (I didn&#8217;t find &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/?p=363\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}