Tech School Budget Meeting Delayed

From the BCCT

Cost meeting delayed
By JOAN HELLYER

A review of how much it costs the Bucks County Technical High School to educate each of its estimated 1,500 students won’t take place until at least September, a school official said.

Members of the school’s joint board committee had agreed before the summer break to meet with business managers from the six sending districts during July to look at all student-related costs.

But tech school officials were unable to arrange the meeting this month because of summer scheduling conflicts, said Sharon Rendeiro, the tech school’s business administrator.

The joint board committee, made up of Bensalem, Bristol, Bristol Township, Morrisville, Neshaminy and Pennsbury school board members, initially asked the business managers in 2007 to examine the comprehensive technical high school’s operating expenses.

They suggested special education costs be paid based on the services each district’s students receive. Special education costs, which vary depending on a student’s disability, are now split among the six sending districts.

If districts had been required to pay for the special education services their own students used in the 2007-08 school year, Bristol Township would have paid about $500,000 less to the tech school and Neshaminy would have paid about $450,000 more, officials said.

Neshaminy representatives protested the proposed changes, asking that the joint board consider actual costs for all students before revising the funding formula.

Rendeiro said she’s trying to set up a meeting with the joint board members and business managers once the new academic year begins at the tech school on Wistar Road in Bristol Township.

Downtown Improvements

Here's coverage from the BCCT on the DJTRB funded improvements in Morrisville

Ground breaks on Morrisville project
Posted in News on Wednesday, July 30th, 2008 at 12:09 pm by Courier Times staff writer Danny Adler

Morrisville and Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission officials broke ground this morning on roughly $1.5 million worth of transportation improvements.

The Morrisville improvements are part of 58 projects in Pennsylvania and New Jersey accounting for about $40 million from the bridge commission, the bulk of which goes to reinvest in communities with bridge commission bridges.

The project, paid for by the bridge commission, will bring new curbs, sidewalks and crosswalks on West Bridge Street from Pennsylvania to Harding avenues and on South Pennsylvania Avenue from Bridge Street to Philadelphia Avenue, officials said.

New traffic signals will be installed at the intersections of Delmorr Avenue and Bridge Street, and Pennsylvania Avenue and Bridge Street. A landscaped median island is planned for East Bridge Street from the Lower Trenton Toll Supported Bridge - the “Trenton Makes The World Takes” bridge - to Delmorr Avenue.

Morrisville improvements
Posted in News on Wednesday, July 30th, 2008 at 12:51 pm by staff photographer Bill Fraser

Tom Morton finishes framing around a water drain before concrete is to be poured for new curbs and sidewalks along Pennsylvania Avenue in Morrisville. Assisting him are Dan Williams (left) and Joe Gruber, owner of Gruber Construction, the company in charge of the job. $1.5 million is being funded by the Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission to be spent on various projects to revitalize Morrisville Borough.

School Board HR and Policy Committee Meetings

School Board Committee Meeting
Notice is hereby given that the School District of Borough of Morrisville, Morrisville, PA, will hold a Human Resource Policy Committee meeting followed by a Policy Committee meeting in the G-Hall conference room of the Morrisville Middle/Senior High School, 550 W. Palmer St., Morrisville, PA on Thursday, August 7, 2008 at 6:30 pm.

Marlys Mihok, Secretary

Stop the School...And then What?

Courtesy of Non Sequitur