Members of the Salem-Keizer School District budget committee will get an overview of district leaders’ proposed spending for next year at their first meeting on Tuesday.
The committee will select a chair and vice chair and hear Superintendent Christy Perry’s overview of the proposed budget for the 2021-22 school year. The draft budget has not yet been publicly released.
Committee members are scheduled to hear public comment on the budget and deliberate at meetings on May 18 and May 24. The budget eventually approved by the committee is then sent to the school board for adoption.
The committee includes seven community volunteers as well as all seven elected school board members. Committee members are Jaqualine Bechtel, Barbara Ghio, Lisa Harnisch, Levi Herrera-Lopez, Oni Marchbanks, Adriana Miranda and Tyson Pruett as well as school board directors Satya Chandragiri, Danielle Bethell, Kathy Goss, Sheronne Blasi, Paul Kyllo, Marty Heyen and Jesse Lippold Peone.
To participate: The meeting will be held in-person at 6 p.m. Tuesday, May 4, but members of the public may only attend virtually because of Covid restrictions. The meeting can be viewed on YouTube at the links below and will also stream live on CC:Media, channel 21.
English: https://youtu.be/z9KPOkybSQc
Spanish: https://youtu.be/AxfLTV_AJbg
-Rachel Alexander
