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With the coming of the holiday season, we are beginning the process of formulating our budget proposal for the 2012-2013 school year.  As in the last few years this will be another challenge for the Board and Administration.  We want this process to be a collaborative and open process with all our stakeholders.  I am making a commitment to make updating this page a weekly event in order to keep our community informed about the process. 

The Board and I have started the conversations about the new tax cap laws and how they will effect our planning.  We are still learning all the new expectations, guidelines, exemptions, and deadlines. I will make an effort to keep you as informed as I can.  I will be adding web sites and links to the most current information available.  If you were involved at all in the process last year, you can attest to the open forum that the Board adopted as part of the process.  Developing a budget that addresses the needs of our children, and the expectations of our taxpayers can be difficult to balance.  We all want what is best for our students, as they are our future, but we also realize that these are very difficult economic times.  The taxpayers of this District have been very supportive of our budgets and programs over the past decade. 

Last spring many of you took part in one of five community meetings.  The data collected from those meetings is available on our website.  We have also been very busy putting together a strategic plan for our District.  Our facilitator will be present at the January 10, 2012 Board meeting to share the results.  Over the past four months parents, community members, students, teachers, support staff, administrators, and the Board have been involved in this process.  Our goal is to take this information and develop several broad District goals.  If you would like to see the questions that were asked to all the groups, please take a look on our home page for the link.  If you are interested in the presentation please feel free to join us on January 10th at 7:00 in the Boonville Elementary cafeteria.

On behalf of all of us here at ACS, have a wonderful holiday season.