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Question of the Day: Should Council Have Reduced Budget Further?

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On Tuesday, the Bloomingdale Borough Council recommended $248,622 worth of reductions in the Bloomingdale Public Schools 2011-2012 budget ( to watch video coverage of the joint council and school board meeting). After the budget was defeated by just six votes in April, the council was forced to recommend reductions. 

The reduction recommendations the council made include $98,822 in teachers' salaries due to replacements of retiring teachers with entry level teachers, $44,000 in unallocated health benefits, $25,000 in unallocated unemployment benefits (the district requested the line item be reduced to its current appropriation level of $75,000, which they believe would be sufficient), $5,800 by eliminating new library catalog software systems at the and  schools and a $75,000 increase for unexpected budget appropriations and projected tuition revenues.

For today's inaugural Question of the Day, we're asking: Should the budget have been reduced further?

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