The Bethel-Tate Board of Education will be implementing a million dollars in spending cuts by July 1, 2009.
In its first post-election board meeting Nov. 20, Bethel-Tate’s Board of Education, meeting before a crowd of more than 200 people, informed the public that, since the earned income tax levy failed Nov. 4, the promised school district cuts were now imminent.
“One of the things that we know we are facing as a board is that with the failure of the levy, our financial emergency did not go away,” said Board president Ed Dyer. “We still have a shortfall of over a million dollars in money for the next school year. We want to make it clear that our money issues are real, and now we have no hope of increasing revenues for next year.”