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Board Adopts School Budget

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2
Month
November
Year
1972
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Similar to persons who give parties and have no one come, the Ann Arbor Board of Education held a hearing on the 1972-73 budget last night and no one spoke. The board adopted a balanced $27,171,480 budget at last night's meeting. To come up with a balanced budget, the I school district had to pare its tentative I budget by $530,883. A major portion of I the imbalance which resulted after the 1972-73 tentative budget was adopted by the board on June 21 was due to a miscalculation of anticipated delinquent tax revenues. In April it was estimated the school district would receive $1.8 million from the county's revolving delinquent tax fund. Instead the district is to receive $1,186,000. The adopted budget will be open to substitutions in the way cuts are to be made, according to a school spokesman. One of the cuts now anticipated is a proposed $70,000 savings which would result from having the school system close down for one week at the end of June, after classes are dismissed. The closing would affect administr;itors, principáis and secretarles. The 12-month employés would not be paid for the one week. Elementary principáis are 10month employés but they also would be affected. Keferring only to "that item," Trustee Cecil Warner and Supt. R. Bruce McPherson discussed the possibility that the closing of school for one week could be a negotiable item and still subject to change. In the adopted budget major areas efexpenditure and how much is budgeted for each area are: Superintendent, $117, 337; ombudsman, $84,226; cxternal affairs, $50,410; planning, $6,011,825; operations, $20,284,177, and business and finance, $623,505,