West Hartford Schools Superintendent Seeks Budget Increase for 2016-17

WEST HARTFORD -- Superintendent of Schools Tom Moore presented a $155.63 million budget for the 2016-17 school year, which represents a 3.55 percent increase ($5.26 million), over the current spending plan to the Board of Education on Tuesday night.

Based on the district’s roll forward budget, the cost of providing the same services and programs as the previous year, the increase would be need to be $5.41 million (3.65 percent) with salary increases being the biggest driver, according to We-Ha.com.

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Salaries will be increasing by $2.86 million (2.91 percent) with most employees receiving a 2 percent wage increase plus step movement.

The increases are part of the new teachers’ contract, which takes effect July 1, and Moore told the board it is a “fair” contract that was arrived at in good faith, according to We-Ha.

Moore’s proposed changes to the roll forward budget reduces the total budget amount by .10 percent ($0.15 million), mostly due to declining enrollment (resulting in a $773,000 decrease).

The school board will hold a budget work session on March 9 at 7 p.m. in the Town Hall, Legislative Chamber (Room 314).

A public hearing on the budget will be held at 7 p.m. on March 23 with another work session immediately following.

The board will review and adopt the budget on April 5. The meeting begins at 7 p.m.

Read more about Moore’s budget presentation at We-Ha.com here.

View the superintendent’s executive summary of the budget proposal here.

More information about the budget can be found on the district's website here.