School district told to cut $910,000 from budget

Months after the Churchill County School District shaved $2.2 million from its budget following a state mandate, it now has been told to cut an­other $910,000. Student allotment funding decreased by a little more than $500,000, while instructional supplies, such as textbooks — totaling more than $400,000 — has been cut from the new budget Gov. Jim Gibbons is creating. The school board is consid­ering using its entire $400,000 contingency fund, and anoth­er $65,000 from its rainy day fund, to cover some of the ad­ditional cuts. Superintendent Carolyn Ross said proposed cuts reject­ed by the school board a few months ago will be revisited soon. “What we are doing is col­lecting relevant data for the cuts the school board did not approve last year,” she said adding that expenses to oper­ate Lahontan Valley High School as well as... [read full story]