BETHEL -- Superintendent Christine Carver proposed a 1.9 percent budget increase for next academic year, the lowest hike across the area.
The majority of the increase in Carver’s nearly $45.2 million budget for 2018-19 comes from salaries, which will go up 2.5 percent. This represents 1.7 percent of the proposed budget increase.
Carver told Board of Education members Thursday night that her budget would continue to support the district’s strategic plan.
“In some ways given the state budget crisis this year, it did set us back a little bit [on the strategic plan],” she said. “But we’ve always prided ourselves on doing that through fiscal efficiency, despite some of the challenges we’re currently facing, not only with funding, but also with enrollment.”