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04.28.12

The public missed an opportunity to learn some budget basics and get an indepth look at Northgate’s proposed 2012-13 budget at a special meeting last Monday.

Business manager Christopher Ursu presented an overview of the proposed spending plan to the handful of people in attendance, which included three school board members and superintendent Dr. Reggie Bonfield.

09.23.11

Northgate personnel

The Northgate School Board honored longtime business office employee Marilynn Berner during her final school board meeting Monday before her retirement.

Berner began work in the business office in 1990 as a payroll clerk, but soon became the district’s business manager and assumed leadership roles in the statewide school business managers’ association.

Christopher Ursu will take over as the Northgate business manager at the end of the month.

02.18.11

Northgate to seek 2.5 mill exception

While the Northgate School Board seeks permission to increase property taxes 2.5 mills in the coming year, a challenge to cut spending was endorsed more heartily in theory than in practice at the board’s work session on Monday.

01.28.11

Northgate preps for tax hike

The Northgate School Board has approved a preliminary budget just in case the district needs an extra-large property tax increase in the coming year, but officials warn that revenue figures are too uncertain to know anything for sure at this point.

06.18.10

Higher bid

The Northgate School Board's finance committee is recommending that the board reject a lower price for worker's compensation insurance.

Business manager Marilynn Berner said that the district has used the same insurance carrier for 20 years, and has an excellent working relationship with the company. A new company, she said, submitted a proposal that is $3,600 less than what the current insurer charges.

02.05.10

Northgate seeks millage max

With a philosophy of getting them all and sorting them out later, the Northgate School District will apply for exceptions that would allow the school board to increase property taxes more than three times the allowable index for the 2010-11 fiscal year.

08.14.09

News Briefs

Budget cuts?

Avonworth administrators may look to budget cuts for Avonworth Elementary School in order to provide additional consulting services at the school.

Board treasurer Frank Mucha said at the board's regular meeting on Monday that the district is looking at entering into an agreement with John Esaias for consulting services for the first semester of this school year.

The agreement would pay Esaias $50 per hour, to work two days a week, at a cost not to exceed $12,500.