This subject may be of interest to you, the voter;


Looking at a budget to actual report of the 2015 budget of the Narragansett Regional School district of Templeton, MA, you may see reasons for concern;


under business and finance, the original appropriation was   $54,800.00
under the revised FY2015 budget, new appropriation was    $55,790.00
under yield to date expended as reported April 27, 2015       $98,376.92


same report shows encumbrances                                           $18,528.45


now as of 4/27/2015 - available budget shows                      -$61,115.37       (% used 209.5%)


In my view, I see an institution who is suppose to be teaching children how to do math
has having spent more than twice as much money as they had to spend. Now that kids is how you run a business!  According to this report, it shows the district using the Munis accounting system which is suppose to be the Cadillac of the accounting software systems out there.


Within this same report, under the heading of Legal service for school committee, it shows spending of 149%.


Breakdown as follows:
  original appropriation of                          $25,000.00
revised budget amount of                           $25,000.00
yield to date expended                                $27,163.58
encumbrances of                                         $10,157.77
available budget of                                    -$12,321.35


So there are just a couple examples of school spending at NRHS of Templeton, MA and yes there are more fun examples of fine business practices. Hopefully there is money stashed in the usual places such as the school general insurance fund and the excess & deficiency fund to cover all the over spending because there seems to be more within this particular budget to actual report from the NRHS school district.






Jeff Bennett