ERIK SANZENBACH / L’Observateur / June 6, 2000

RESERVE – Felix Boughton, director of Business Operations for the St. JohnSchool Board, presented the school board with the amended general and lunch fund budgets for fiscal year 1999-2000, the comprehensive budget for June 30, 2001 and the salary schedule for fiscal year 2000-2001.

Boughton said, “We are financially sound” as he presented the amended 1999-2000 budget to the board.

The ending fund balance for the school system was $2,405,256, which according to Boughton is the legally mandated 5 percent of the total budget.

Also, because of conservative budgeting, Boughton told the board that the comprehensive budget for 2001 is also “in the black and balanced.”The proposed ending fund balance for the 2001 budget should be $1,213,747, according to Boughton.

Boughton also presented the board with the salary schedule for fiscal year 2000-2001.

“This is the first time we’ve had a salary schedule where people do not make more than their supervisors,” said Boughton.

All three documents, the amended budget, the comprehensive budget and the salary schedule, still have to be voted on by the school board at its June 15 meeting. The board has two weeks to go over the figures and decide if itlikes what it sees.

In other school board business: Superintendent Chris Donaldson announced that Courtney Millet, principal at LaPlace Elementary School, was awarded her doctorate degree in curriculum and instruction May 19.

Debra Schum, principal of East St. John High School, was named Principal ofthe Year for St. John Parish. Personnel Director Alfred Donaldson announced that the school board has hired 28 teachers to be LEAP remediation teachers for the summer session.

Twenty-six of the new hires will be full time with two part-time teachers.

The school board voted to accept the new summer work schedule for the district office, principals and maintenance. Under the new scheduleemployees will work a four-day week through July 28. The work day willcommence at 7 a.m. with a half-hour lunch and end at 4:15 p.m. Schoolboard offices will be closed June 9,16, 23, 30 and July 7, 14, 21 and 28.

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