Plan for District 2 budget shortfall presented
SUMMERVILLE — The Dorchester School District 2 will make up for a $9 million budget shortfall next year mostly by not replacing employees who have left, and requiring those still employed to take between two and four unpaid days off.
Allyson Duke, the district's chief financial officer, presented the proposed budget at a public hearing Tuesday, which was attended mostly by school district staff members, Dorchester County Council members and representatives from the county's Legislative Delegation.
Duke said the district's expenses for next year are about $145.7 million, but it is expected to bring in only $136.6 million in state and local money.
In addition to not filling about 86 positions and requiring employees to take furlough days, the district also will: reduce by 15 percent salaries of employees it has rehired after they retired; cut financial support for extra-curricular activities by 10 percent; and reduce department budgets by 5 percent.
"Our goal is not to lay people off," Duke said. "But we're looking at all of our programs and trying to squeeze out every penny we can."
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