AUBURN - The Auburn Enlarged City School District is checking dollars left in the budget six months into the fiscal year.
According to Marianne O'Connor, district business administrator, Auburn is under-budget in expenditures and is projecting to meet or exceed budgeted levels in revenues.
O'Connor presented the year-to-date budget report to the board of education Tuesday.
In expenditures, Auburn has expended or encumbered nearly all of its total budget, leaving an available budget of about $1.7 million, O'Connor said.
The district has earmarked 97.4 percent of the total budget for various services, which include salaries and wages, employee benefits, Contract for Excellence programming, equipment and supplies, Board of Cooperative Education Services and contractual expenses.
One aspect O'Connor will scrutinize carefully is the rising cost of health insurance. According to the report, average monthly insurance claims for the first five months of the fiscal year - which runs from June 1 to July 30 - are up 16.8 percent compared with last year.
In terms of revenue, the district is about $420,000 ahead of budget, she said. Some of that can be attributed to a BOCES refund of about $200,000 as well as energy rebates.
The district is also above the real property tax collection rate from last year.
Collection ended Dec. 7, and a detailed report will be made available next month.
In other news:
• The board officially approved David Roth's resignation as Auburn High School principal.
Roth, who has led the high school for more than three years, will move back to his home county of Monroe and join the Honeoye Falls-Lima Central School District as its high school principal with a start date of Jan. 2, 2008.
The board approved former Auburn administrator Gordon Klumpp as interim principal while the district undergoes a search to fill the position full-time.
• The next board of education meeting will be 7 p.m. Jan. 8, at the Auburn High School library.
Staff writer Alyssa Sunkin can be reached at alyssa.sunkin@lee.net or 253-5311 ext. 239
O'Connor presented the year-to-date budget report to the board of education Tuesday.
In expenditures, Auburn has expended or encumbered nearly all of its total budget, leaving an available budget of about $1.7 million, O'Connor said.
The district has earmarked 97.4 percent of the total budget for various services, which include salaries and wages, employee benefits, Contract for Excellence programming, equipment and supplies, Board of Cooperative Education Services and contractual expenses.
One aspect O'Connor will scrutinize carefully is the rising cost of health insurance. According to the report, average monthly insurance claims for the first five months of the fiscal year - which runs from June 1 to July 30 - are up 16.8 percent compared with last year.
In terms of revenue, the district is about $420,000 ahead of budget, she said. Some of that can be attributed to a BOCES refund of about $200,000 as well as energy rebates.
The district is also above the real property tax collection rate from last year.
Collection ended Dec. 7, and a detailed report will be made available next month.
In other news:
• The board officially approved David Roth's resignation as Auburn High School principal.
Roth, who has led the high school for more than three years, will move back to his home county of Monroe and join the Honeoye Falls-Lima Central School District as its high school principal with a start date of Jan. 2, 2008.
The board approved former Auburn administrator Gordon Klumpp as interim principal while the district undergoes a search to fill the position full-time.
• The next board of education meeting will be 7 p.m. Jan. 8, at the Auburn High School library.
Staff writer Alyssa Sunkin can be reached at alyssa.sunkin@lee.net or 253-5311 ext. 239
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