Norton Schools Asking for $1.6 Million Budget Increase for Level Services
Norton schools asking for 6.78 percent increase for a level services budget.
The Norton School Committee presented their recommended fiscal year 2014 budget of just over $24M on Monday, an increase of just under $1.6 million from the fiscal year 2013. Norton Public Schools interim superintendent Christopher Martes said that this increase is mostly due to contractual obligations for salaries, but also to other mitigating factors. He said the loss of one of their grants from the EDU Jobs Grant, which ends this year, means an extra $290,000 in personnel costs. “It was part of some of the bailout work the president and his staff did,” he said. "We have to fill that obligation or reduce… We built that obligation into the budget.” He said that due to required cost of living increases and the grant ending, they are …
