Whos of Who-cester

 You can find the agenda here. You can find the video  online here. Note that we opened the meeting with an executive session involving a ...

...appalling long document providing for every conceivable and inconceivable situation and opening up ramifications into everybody's de...

Since the public hearing on the Worcester Public Schools' FY19 budget is Monday (7 pm, Durkin Administration Building), I thought we...

Two subcommittees and a full committee meeting! It's not actually clear from the online postings what is going to be discussed at the s...

meeting before the budget hearing... agenda is here

post as we go Allen: state reduction of nearly $600K less than WPS budgeted school committee recommended budget based on House 1 budget o...

Report is here Allen: reflects a lot of the conversation we've had in previous quarters projected balance has improved drivers still ...

There is a regular meeting of the Worcester School Committee on Thursday at 7 pm. You can find the agenda here. By the way, Mike does these...

posting as we go Nurses O'Connell: provides for 51 nurses : is that every school? Rodrigues: coverage in all schools, yes. Still figu...

second quarter: Allen: through the second quarter, amount expended to date in relation to budget amount pretty specific projections by acc...

Foley reporting out: Three areas of note in shortfalls: personal services: higher than usual legal costs tuition account: third party se...

Consalvo: 17% expended or committed all new FY14 positions either filled or long term sub projected balance in custodian account: vacancy ...

Other insurance passes Retirement O'Connell: early retirement incentive: how many people did that? Petty asks if the numbers have to ...

report here Vacancies and attrition in IAs and Instructional support overtime on bus monitors custodians...contractual manpower overtime ...

Find the back-up here Account by account here Update: sorry, I was asking questions, and so missed posting any notes. Here are a few fro...

Workers Comp: recommended at $952,300 (we're expected to expend over a million again this year) Monfredo asks if there's anything...

Flat funded except for the containment charges, which are up 33%; in total a 2% increase for the account (the containment is outsourced, and...

Mr. O'Connell wants to know if there are any developments on this. No, more or less, is the answer.

I'm leaving out the account numbers, and just giving here the tags. All of these are administrative recommendations to "consider...