The public hearing on the preliminary South Milwaukee School District budget and staffing recommendations — and the district’s proposed $1.4 million in cuts for 2011-12 — is tonight at the South Milwaukee Performing Arts Center.
The hearing starts at 6:30 p.m.
The district has set some ground rules for the debate, which you can view in their entirety in this document. Among them:
- The budget hearing will begin with an overview of the district’s financial position. It is anticipated that this will take approximately ten minutes.
- Prior to the start of the meeting (and during the beginning of the meeting) members of the public will be asked to sign up to speak and to designate the topic they wish to speak regarding. Each person will be limited to two minutes.
- Only South Milwaukee residents, South Milwaukee staff members, students attending South Milwaukee or parents of South Milwaukee students will be allowed to speak.
- Budget topics will be addressed one at a time. Members of the public that signed up to speak regarding that topic will be called forward one at a time to speak.
I hope that the discussion is honest, reasonable and civil.
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