Budget advisory committee to organize, meet

The RCS Budget Advisory Committee will conduct its first meeting on January 14 in the District Office Building on Thatcher Street in Selkirk.

Anyone interested in joining the committee is asked to contact the RCS District Office at 756-5200, ext. 6003 by 4 p.m. on January 11. Membership is open to the public and residents of all areas of the district are encouraged to join.

The overall goal of the committee is to advise on, and guide in, the creation of a “sound educational budget at a responsible financial level.”

The committee will outline a meeting schedule during its first few meetings.

The committee will be guided by Daryl Purinton of Purinton & Morris, an accounting firm that is providing financial and budget assistance to the district while it searches for a new business official to lead the RCS Business Office.

Purinton and Morris officials will work  in conjunction with the RCS administration in crafting a 2008-09 spending plan proposal to put before the Board of Education this spring.

The Budget Advisory Committee, said Superintendent Vicki Wright, will take an active role in that development process, meeting with the administrators and supervisors in charge of the buildings and grounds, transportation, aquatics and technology departments and making recommendations on the budget proposal.