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Friday, December 14, 2012

Rockwood School District: 'Picture' Less Financial Backing

LAST CHANCE TO SUBMIT FEEDBACK: For many years, Rockwood School District leaders have used bond funds to pay for ongoing maintenance. But that source of funding came to abrupt halt once the April bond issue failed.

Is Rockwood School District's financial future really a case of comparing "apples and oranges"? It was lately, with today (Friday, Dec. 14) being the last day to submit feedback regarding the district's situational and strategic comparison—all while facing a $5.1 million budget deficit. After comparing the proposed apple versus orange pictures, or scenarios that resulted from the past several months of a community engagement initiative, of Rockwood's potential future, feedback can be submitted a variety of ways: Both Apple and Orange pictures/scenarios include the district eliminating about $1 million from the operating budget for the coming school year. But, the proposals suggest tax increases that would raise revenue over that of the …

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Rockwood School District -- Administrative Center, Lafayette High School, and 'Picture Rockwood' Process Frames Future, $6.6M Projected Deficit

Mark Schmiedeskamp

8:06 am on Friday, December 14, 2012

Rockwoods needs more money? My what a surprise. I wish I could understand how renovating fields and installing artificial turf has anything to do with academics. Maybe Borchers should hire another of his "consultant" cronies to explain the connection.   more ›

Thursday, November 29, 2012

'Picture Rockwood' Process Frames Future, $6.6M Projected Deficit

Now through Dec. 14, Rockwood School District taxpayers have opportunity to share feedback via telephone survey or online feedback form regarding final summaries chosen to guide district's future strategic direction.

The future direction of Missouri's third largest school district now pivots around two visionary "pictures," which actually are recaps of outcomes based on specific assumptions, revenues and expenditures. A multimonth community engagement process to shape Rockwood School District's strategies moving forward has peaked, and district officials will host the final workshop of the process during the first week of January as they move from Phase 1 to 2 of this overall project. Details of the so-called district "pictures" were supposed to capture broad strategies, not specific action plans, said Rockwood representatives when the project was initiated in October, after Rockwood Board of Education directors approved the project in July. Background…

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Rockwood School District -- Administrative Annex and Rockwood School District -- Administrative Center

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Eileen Tyrrell

8:56 pm on Saturday, December 1, 2012

KM all good solutions and worthy for our elected Board of Education to explore. Please send them via email directely to your elected officials on the Board of Education. A tax increase, of any kind, is not good in this economy. Currently Rockwood receives approximately 60% of our property taxes and 52% of our personal property taxes. If you would have brought these solutions to the table at a …   more ›

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