At last night’s meeting the Board unanimously approved two recommendations made by staff. The first will add back one hour per day of librarian technician time at each site during the current school year. The second reinstated the funding cut from this year’s elementary music program.
These changes were made possible as a result of the Foundation significantly exceeding its fundraising goal for the 2009/2010 school year.
Instead of the $1.3 million the Foundation initially expected to raise, or the $1.5 million they thought they could raise, they actually ended up raising over $1.7 million. This was a tremendous achievement, and a testimonial to what a community committed to public education can achieve under an exceptionally well-run volunteer fundraising organization.