Category Archives: Budgets
Goffstown School Board to return $9.1m surplus to town
GOFFSTOWN — Millions of dollars wrongly kept on the school district’s books won’t be used to help fund any proposed warrant articles, school board members decided. | Keep Reading at New Hampshire.com
Shaheen, Hassan Won’t Hold Up Budget for DACA
Both New Hampshire’s U.S. senators said Monday they will not hold up a budget deal as leverage for immigration reform. President Donald Trump ended the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program – or DACA – last year. The program protected … Continue reading
Posted in Budgets, Democrats, Immigration/Illegal Immigration
Tagged Budget, DACA, Jeanne Shaheen, Maggie Hassan, US Senate
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Revenue shortfall discovered in Londonderry
LONDONDERRY — A revenue shortfall due to an electronic processing glitch when calculating the tax rate has joined both town and school district to come up with a way to find a solution. Town Council Chairman Tom Dolan addressed the … Continue reading
Timberlane Financial Controls – Gap or Chasm?
The administration is quick to point out that we operate with a bottom-line budget, and that the line items appropriated in the budget do not determine how the money may be used. But, our policy imposes a control on that … Continue reading
Posted in Budgets, Debt/Spending, Donna Green, Education
Tagged appropriation, Arthur Green, Timberlane Regional School District
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Chronic Capital Confusion
Timberlane’s administration appears to inhabit a state of chronic capital confusion (sorry, couldn’t resist the alliteration) about which budget accounts constitute capital expenditures. | Keep Reading at timberlaneandsandown
Data Point – Schools keep growing (by adding “overhead”)
If an average classroom size is about 25 students and we multiply that by the average spending, that gives us $275,000 per year per classroom. If you’re in a school with 40 classrooms that’s $11 million per year to run a … Continue reading
Posted in Budgets, Debt/Spending, Education, GraniteGrok, taxes
Tagged Overhead, School
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Tales from the BudComm – “Do you see what I see?”
“… the massive flurry of subcommittee meetings and report writing has calmed down and one can actually start to sit down and meditate, cogitate, and try to do something more than a surface cursory level analysis. Like “how come it … Continue reading
Posted in Budgets, Debt/Spending, Education, GraniteGrok, Local NH Politics
Tagged Budget Committee, Gilford, Skip Murphy
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Henniker BAC Suggests Budget Cut
Budget Advisory Committee recommendation: 2018 proposed Operational Budget for the town be reduced by $300,000! | More at onlyhennikerbruce
Posted in Budgets, Debt/Spending, Local NH Politics
Tagged Bruce Trivellini, Budget, Henniker
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No Rigor in Timberlane’s Per Pupil Cost
The official Cost per Pupil report from the Department of Education is now out. (DOE web site. Thanks to an alert resident who located the document even though it has not been linked from the usual DOE summary page.) Timberlane’s Cost … Continue reading
Posted in Budgets, Debt/Spending, Donna Green, taxes
Tagged Cost per pupil, Timberlane
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How Will NH Democrats React to this News: November Revenue Doubles State Surplus
I’m curious how the Democrat Drama Queens (and I mean that with the utmost respect) will take the latest fiscal news for the Great State of New Hampshire? Revenues from November have doubled the state’s surplus, according to the New Hampshire … Continue reading
Posted in Budgets, Debt/Spending, Economy/Economics, taxes
Tagged Budget, Surplus, Tax cuts
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The New Media Militia 