Well, the last night of the Budget Season was last Thursday nite. A long nite – from 6:30pm and I didn’t get home until after midnight. Did we get all of the surface analysis done and talked to all of the right people at mostly the right time? Yes, the BudComm did. Sadly, do I think we did the job right? No, due to a lack of time to really do the second and third level analysis of the data, especially on the School District side (which is about twice the size of the Municipality / Town budget). And a couple of technical problems with the state statutes.
Oh, and on the School District side, standards make a difference. What do you think about this – do you see what I see?:
| NH Board | Gilford School | |||||
| Num. Of | of Education | Standard | ||||
| Students | Max | Preferred | Min | Max | ||
| Middle School | Grade 5 | 80 | 30 | 25 | 18 | 23 |
| Grade 6 | 79 | 30 | — | 18 | 23 | |
| Grade 7 | 79 | 30 | — | 18 | 23 | |
| Grade 8 | 84 | 30 | — | 18 | 23 | |
| GMS Total | 322 | |||||
So for anyone out there – does anyone have a utilization model set up already for students / classes / teachers? Otherwise, I’m going to be creating my own. After all, the BudComm is the last bastion of defense of the tax payers money, but man, once you start digging, it is more and more digging…
To be continued…
