(KMZA )-Community meetings were held this week to discuss the future of facilities in Nemaha Central USD 115.
Superintendent Darrel Kohlman presented information at the meetings in Seneca and Baileyville on what the district’s financial future looks like in fiscal year 2016 when the budget will no longer have consolidation incentives. Currently, Kohlman said that’s projected to lower the district budget by more than $880,000 if base aid remains the same.
The district began providing their own transportation service this school year instead of contracting the service with a private firm, which Kohlman says is projected to save the district around 99-thousand dollars. Kohlman said cost cutting measures to date—including transportation savings, staffing changes and the closing of the St. Benedict Elementary School—have saved the district more than $160,000 and closed the budget gap they needed to make up to nearly $718,000.
The board of education has developed three options to address the decrease in the budget. Two of those options would close the B & B facility and one would convert it into a district middle school.
Kohlman noted none of the options have a time line. He said that's one of the things that will be decided next as the school board makes a decision on which of the three options they are going with. That decision is expected next month.
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