Nazareth Adopts Other School Budgets

In addition to approving the final 2013-2014 budget Monday night, Nazareth Area School Board took other actions on other budgets:

• The board approved Northampton Community College’s total consolidated operating budget of $70.40 million for 2013-2014. Nazareth’s share of the budget will be about $607,396 – an approximate increase of 1.80 percent, or $10,363.

NCC’s total budget is $1.55 million higher—or 2.27 percent—that this year’s budget. Also, the 2013-2014 total operating budget in the educational and supportive area where school districts participate came in at $54.44 million—a $1.30 million increase, or 2.45 percent.

NCC’s capital budget, meanwhile, proposes spending $13.10 million—a $150,442 increase.

• The board also approved the $3.01 million general operating budget for Colonial Intermediate Unit 20. Nazareth’s contribution is $33,362.88—an increase of less than 2 percent, according to district business administrator Bernadine Rishcoff.

Superintendent Dennis Riker pointed out that Nazareth’s share does not include the costs of IU-related programs at Nazareth schools.

• The board also adopted the Nazareth district’s $1.10 million athletic fund budget for the upcoming school year.

That amount represents no change for the third-straight year, Riker said. The board also approved fund transfers throughout the year from the general fund to the athletic fund. That amount is $931,200.