Fund 80 for after school "Homework Club"?

(Ed. note: I hope to have audio of this discussion later.)

At last night's Evansville School Board there was considerable discussion about the future of the "Homework Club" now that the grant for it's funding has not been renewed.

Administration hoped to use some of the "extra fund balance money" to pay the $30,000 for this expense for next year or else ask the taxpayers for the money in a special "Fund 80" request.

Mr. Pierick indicated he thought the special fund 80 request was something he would prefer to avoid, and instead wished to consider the request within the regular budgeting process.

Just the mention of "Fund 80" brought back memories of the famous "Fund 80" meeting at the middle school many years past, where Dr. Gary Albrecht asked for a special fund 80 for a recreation district----the issue went down to defeat on a big turnout from Union Twp representatives. It was shortly after that that Mr. Albrecht announed that he was leaving the district. Fund 80 is a way to break the revenue caps of current Wisconsin State law.

The Finance committee will discuss the issue at the meeting on Thursday of this week. See the agenda blog. The Board seemed evenly divided on the issue. I hope to have some audio of this discussion later. Stay tuned.