Ytown schools make $250K in additional cuts

Ytown schools make $250K in additional cuts

YOUNGSTOWN — The city school district has trimmed an additional $250,000 in spending as it prepares to ask voters to approve a 9.5-mill tax levy to help cover a $15 million budget deficit last year.

In a report to the school board this month, Tony DeNiro, assistant superintendent for school business affairs, said the additional cuts were made in the transportation and maintenance departments.

“We’re constantly working on reductions,” Superintendent Dr. Wendy Webb told the district’s Financial Planning and Supervision Commission last week.

Additional cuts will be going into effect, she said, adding that the plan is to have the budget balanced by 2012, provided that voters approve the five-year emergency levy in November.

An effort to get the same millage passed a year ago failed by a margin of 2,000 votes.

For the complete story, see Friday’s Vindicator and Vindy.com.