Roanoke Times Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc. DATE: TUESDAY, June 15, 1993 TAG: 9306150123 SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV-1 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY SOURCE: PAUL DELLINGER STAFF WRITER DATELINE: PULASKI LENGTH: Medium
The board moved its meeting to tonight from its regular second Thursday of the month because that conflicted with Pulaski County High School's commencement. Tonight's meeting will start at 7 at the county Administration Building.
School officials had asked for $484,000 more in local funds for 1993-94 than they had this year, but will get just $84,000 of that request. They got none of the $773,800 they had wanted for capital improvements.
The School Board will have to decide whether the extra money should go for personnel or other needs, including buses. It will have to decide whether further personnel cuts are necessary and how to use any carry-over funds from this year.
Other recommendations will include making the cost of providing behind-the-wheel driver education instruction self-supporting by charging an estimated $175 per student, and perhaps restructuring the way some student services are provided.
In other business, school officials have gathered information from the nine elementary schools - one of which has since closed - on how many parents would take advantage of an extended day-care program. It sent surveys to parents at each school to gauge interest (see box).
A majority of parents at every schools who returned surveys indicated interest.
Once the plans for the program are complete, school officials would seek proposals from state-licensed day-care providers.
The pupils from Jefferson Elementary, which closed last week, will be distributed among Claremont, Critzer and Northwood elementary schools during the 1993-94 school year.
by CNB