GREENFIELD — The final budget for the Greenfield School Committee will be voted on at a special meeting Monday at 6:30 p.m. in the high school cafeteria.
The committee will convene on the very last day they legally can to give a budget to the mayor’s office, allowing for little last-minute adjustments. Currently the superintendent’s proposed budget sits around $18.9 million, fluctuating by about $30,000 in the past couple of weeks.
The proposed budget is a roughly 5 percent increase from last year’s city-approved budget of $18 million.
Before the City Council cut the budget by 1 percent across the board, it was at $18.7 million. Some members of the council had promised at least some of that cut money back to the school, which it still awaits.
So the $18.9 million budget is a 1 percent increase from what the School Committee proposed last year.
Superintendent Jordana Harper and Greenfield School Committee Chairwoman Adrienne Nunez have repeatedly noted through this year’s process that its condensed budget cycle has led to a more rushed approach with less dialogue around the prospective spending plan.
Committee Vice Chairman Cameron Ward has led this cycle’s budget subcommittee.
The budget group, including Ward, Nunez, Don Alexander, Susan Hollins and Mayor William Martin has debated how to best finance issues of special education, custodial staffing and library costs. The budget does not have any planned cuts to teachers.