{"id":1668,"date":"2015-02-10T17:53:17","date_gmt":"2015-02-11T02:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communications.blogs.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/wpmu\/?p=1668"},"modified":"2015-02-10T17:53:17","modified_gmt":"2015-02-11T02:53:17","slug":"news-release-kpbsd-public-budget-forum-and-public-pool-use-meetings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/2015\/02\/10\/news-release-kpbsd-public-budget-forum-and-public-pool-use-meetings\/","title":{"rendered":"News Release: KPBSD Public Budget Forum and Public Pool Use meetings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kenai Peninsula Borough School District<a href=\"http:\/\/communications.blogs.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/wpmu\/files\/2015\/01\/KPBSD-50-years-logo-Smallest-version.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1646 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/communications.blogs.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/wpmu\/files\/2015\/01\/KPBSD-50-years-logo-Smallest-version.png\" alt=\"KPBSD 50 years logo Smallest  version\" width=\"100\" height=\"80\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nContact: Pegge Erkeneff, 907.714.8888<br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">News Release<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><strong><em>How would you spend 167 million dollars?<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>Soldotna, February 10, 2015\u2014KPBSD faces a multi-million dollar deficit for a status quo budget in 2015-2016. If you care about quality schools and an excellent public education for our Kenai Peninsula K-12 students, please attend a public meeting in your area.\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\nIn addition, KPBSD seeks input to evaluate the operation of the pools within our schools. Community members are asked to provide thoughts about how to improve pool usage, and help KPBSD examine cost efficiencies.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe KPBSD focus is to maximize opportunities for the students in our classrooms,\u201d said Sean Dusek, superintendent. \u201cThe district looks forward to gathering innovative options from the public to help us address our fiscal realities. Additionally, we want to hear ideas from the public related to our pool usage and operation costs.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Parents, employees, students, community members\u2014please attend. Mark your calendar and bring your questions and ideas to a KPBSD public meeting, where you will learn about the district budget perspective, expenditures, revenues, and receive responses to your questions.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>KPBSD Public Pool Use Meeting and Public Budget Forum Meetings<a href=\"http:\/\/communications.blogs.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/wpmu\/files\/2014\/09\/money.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1533 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/communications.blogs.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/wpmu\/files\/2014\/09\/money-150x150.png\" alt=\"money\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Tuesday, February 17, 2015, Seward High School library<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>5:00 Pool Use; 5:30 p.m. Public Budget Meeting<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Wednesday, February 18, 2015, Soldotna High School library<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>5:00 Pool Use; 5:30 p.m. Public Budget Meeting<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Tuesday, February 24, 2015, Homer High School library<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>5:00 Pool Use; 5:30 p.m. Public Budget Meeting<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Link<\/strong><br \/>\nKPBSD finance department and budget documents: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/FinanceKPBSD\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/FinanceKPBSD<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/communications.blogs.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/wpmu\/files\/2015\/02\/KPBSD_2015_02_10-Public-Budget-Forum.pdf\">February 10 2015 News Release: Public Budget Forum<\/a><br \/>\n###<br \/>\nThis and all <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/MediaPublicRelationships\">KPBSD media releases<\/a> are online at this web page: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/MediaPublicRelationships\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/MediaPublicRelationships<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/Communications.aspx?id=28992\">Suggest or contribute a story<\/a> online link: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/SuggestKPBSDstory\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/SuggestKPBSDstory<\/a><br \/>\nPlease contact me with questions or connections to be made for your KPBSD district and school stories.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kenai Peninsula Borough School District Contact: Pegge Erkeneff, 907.714.8888 News Release How would you spend 167 million dollars? Soldotna, February 10, 2015\u2014KPBSD faces a multi-million dollar deficit for a status &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/2015\/02\/10\/news-release-kpbsd-public-budget-forum-and-public-pool-use-meetings\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;News Release: KPBSD Public Budget Forum and Public Pool Use meetings&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[198,410,611,788],"class_list":["post-1668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-release","tag-budget","tag-fiscal","tag-kpbsd","tag-pool"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}