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Forum on HCS Meeting Postponed

Mon, Apr 04, 2011

The citizen's organization formed in response to possible merger of HCS and Morrisville-Eaton Central Schools has again postponed an meeting. The meeting was scheduled to be held tonight; it had been postponded from march 28.

Ken Bausch, one of the leaders of the organization, circulated an email late yesterday that said:

"Based on the hopefully good news of the restoration of part of the state funding for HCS, and the request by the BOE and administration that we try to coordinate directly with them, we are going to cancel the upcoming meeting.

"I believe the BOE has specific members who are willing to coordinate community meetings on the topics we identified:

  1. Revenue enhancement initiatives
  2. Expense saving opportunities
  3. Collaboration with the community to leverage efficiencies (e.g. Colgate, Hamilton, Madison County)
  4. HCS research study - best practices and objectives for school district and full range of options
  5. Government outreach - advocacy for HCS and similar rural school districts

"Will reach out to them to firm this up, and hopefully can be confirmed at the April 12 budget presentation."

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