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Fulton Daily News

Hannibal Voters To Decide Whether To Eliminate Board of Education Positions

April 28, 2010 Contributor
Voters in Hannibal will decide whether their Board of Education should stay at 9 members or reduce to 7.  The board last week approved putting the question on the May 18 ballot, which includes the district’s proposed budget for 2010 – 2011.  So, if voters pick three new board members, bringing the board back to 9 members, at the same time that they approve cutting the board to 7 members, how will that work?

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Fulton Daily News

Hannibal Board Restores Phys Ed Position, Approves Budget For Public Vote

April 22, 2010 Contributor
The Hannibal school board Wednesday night unanimously approved a budget for the next school year. It calls for $25,452,989 in spending, and requires 2.99% tax levy to plug an approx. $1.7m deficit. It resembles the same budget the board rejected last week, with one slight tweak. Instead of eliminating 10 entire teaching positions, this revised version restores a part-time physical education teacher.

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Fulton Daily News

Contingency Budget for Fulton Schools Would Be Lower, Would Lower The Boom on Community Groups

April 21, 2010 Contributor
On any average night, Fulton school buildings are alive with activity. A youth sports league team may be practicing on school district fields. A Neighborhood Watch group or Girl Scout troop may be meeting in a classroom. A volleyball league may be playing in an elementary school gym.

None of these groups is a part of the Fulton City School District, yet each one has a stake in the outcome of next month’s budget vote.

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Fulton Daily News

Ambivalent Hannibal School Board Rejects Budget, Will Have To Approve It Next Week

April 15, 2010 Contributor
They put off the day of decision for one more week.

Frustrated members of the Hannibal Board of Education could not agree to approve a budget for next school year. The budget failed, 4-3, in front of a standing-room-only audience of students and taxpayers. The board will have to enact a budget next week and it is likely to be the same budget they voted against Wednesday night.

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Oswego Daily News

Oswego School Board Set To Vote On Budget Plan

April 6, 2010 Steve Yablonski
Unless things change again – the Oswego school board will vote next week on a budget plan for the 2010-11 school year. At Tuesday night’s board meeting, Superintendent Bill Crist presented budget option three, a tweaked version of what board members said at last week’s meeting that they wanted to see. The spending plan contains a zero percent tax levy increase.

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