MONTAGUE — The Montague school board unanimously accepted the
school year's first budget amendment after a presentation from financial
officer Stacey Brown at its regular meeting Monday night.
Some
slight amendments were necessitated by the school district having 24
fewer students enrolled this year than projected, although Brown noted
that expenditures for the district were also down. In all, the proposed
budget decreased by about $158,000, with the fund balance (as a
percentage of expenditures) increasing to 13.5%.
The board
also unanimously approved board president Brent Raeth taking four
classes with the Michigan Association of School Boards, as well as four
overnight wrestling trips. All four of the trips involved the girls
wrestling team (one of them was for the individual state finals at the
end of the season, which also includes the boys' team), and during
discussion it was noted that the girls' team often has to travel farther
to find competitions because there are fewer potential opponents
locally than there are for the boys' team.
