School Board set to approve 2016-17 budget

The New Prague Area School Board meets at 6 p.m. Monday, June 27, and is scheduled to give approval to the preliminary budget for the 2016-17 fiscal year, which begins July 1. 

The preliminary budget calls for $38.9 million in general fund revenues and $41.7 million in expenditures for the 2016-17 school year. Both numbers are up from the previous year, but the new budget will dip into the fund balance the district has built up over the last few years. 

Read more in the June 30, 2016 edition of The New Prague Times.