CLEARFIELD – The Clearfield County Career and Technology Center Joint Operating Committee approved the 2008-09 general fund budget at Monday’s meeting.
Kathie Malinich, business manager, made her fourth presentation to the committee with the budget’s final “tweaks.”
She said the proposed budget has based both the precision machinist and architectural drafting programs on a half-time status.
According to Malinich, the budget revision calls for only a 1.720 percent increase, which is 0.434 percent without the budgetary reserve.
Joseph Dugan, Moshannon Valley School District representative, asked if the auditors had asked for the reserve.
Malinich said the auditors had done so. “It’s our first budgetary reserve but has always been there. We just never called it a budgetary reserve.”
Dugan then asked Malinich how the $55,288 amount was reached.
She said the reserve allocates $41,000 for salaries for teacher sabbaticals, $10,288 for benefits and $4,000 for maintenance repairs.
“It’s money that’s not going to be spent,” Lois Richards, director of the CCCTC, said.
Dugan thanked Malinich and the administration for “dwindling down” the budget.
“It called for a 3.43 percent increase last time,” and is down quite a bit from that. You did a nice job,” he said.
“We’ve been trimming and trimming,” Richards said.
Click here to read last month’s coverage of the CcCTC budget discussion.