FY10 Budget (Current)

The School Committees have recently finished the process of approving budgets for the fiscal year that begins on July 1, 2009 (Fiscal Year 2010, also known as FY10).  The approved budgets are attached below (at the bottom of the list).

The possibility of elementary reorganization has been raised in conjunction with discussion of budget issues.  For more information about that, please see the page for Elementary School Organization Options.

Please be aware that there are three different school districts within the ARPS system:

• Amherst School District (for the four elementary schools in Amherst)
• Pelham School District (for Pelham Elementary School)
• Amherst-Pelham Regional School District (for the middle school and high school)

As seen in the pdf documents attached below, each school district has its own budget.  Each budget is discussed separately at a meeting of the appropriate school committee:

• Amherst School Committee
• Pelham School Committee
• Regional School Committee

So if you are interested in the issue of cutting high school sports teams, for example, then you would want to look at the regional budget and possibly attend a Regional School Committee meeting or contact one of the committee members.  As another example, if you are concerned about staffing in the Amherst elementary school libraries,  then you should look at the Amherst budget and possibly attend an Amherst School Committee meeting or contact a member of that committee.  And if you are concerned about the cuts to instrumental music at the Pelham school, then you should look at the Pelham budget and possibly attend a Pelham School Committee meeting or contact a member of that committee.

There are some expenditures that are shared among the three budgets.  For example, the superintendent serves all three districts and thus the salary of the superintendent is split among all three budgets.  This is true of many of the costs associated with our central office.  Each district pays a portion of those costs, according to the size of the district.