Schools
Summer School Enrollment May Offset $475K Budget Shortfall
Revenues from summer school could help offset shortfall of $475,000 for the current academic year.
School district finance director Richard Huot updated the Board of Education on an expected revenue shortfall around $475,000 for the current academic year at a meeting Tuesday night.
On April 12, the Darien Board of Finance approved appropriating $475,000 to the school district for the academic year that ends June 30. The finance board stipulated that the Representative Town Meeting must vote on whether to appropriate $210,000 of this request. The remaining $265,000 comes from the special education reverse fund.
“As of right now, in terms of the operating section of the budget, we are in a better spot than where we were on April 1. I certainly do not see any significant changes since April 1,” Huot said. “If anything, we have improved since then.”
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Board member Clara Sartori asked Superintendent Stephen Falcone about summer school enrollment numbers.
“We are two-thirds of our way to our goal,” Falcone said. “But there are still many open seats.”
