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| Octorara All-star basketball player Lamont Clark takes aim during last Winter's run for the State championship. |
Octorara School District is mentioned in an article in Lancaster Online this morning for eliminating funding for middle school level athletics.
What the article doesn't mention is cuts to Octorara's athletic budgets aren't likely to stop at the middle school.
Superintendent Newcome is on record for suggesting cutting middle school athletic funding is just the beginning; that high school athletic funding is next.
Cutting funding doesn't mean team sports at Octorara would disappear in Newcome's model. Rather each team's booster clubs would raise all the money needed to field that team.
If this model looks familiar, it should. Its the same the model Octorara High School Band has successfully operated under for the last 15 years.
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Octorara has been phasing out athletic funding for years. Booster & Clubs have been paying for most of the uniforms & equipment for about 10 years. The district has paid for coaches, transportation & officials - with the booster organizations paying for practically everything else.
Ellen, do you recall how much the district had in the budgets for athletics this year? $250,000 is the number I recall but I haven't checked my notes.
I think it was about that - but.... that amount is what the original budget was last year - then they decreased it by $50,000. The administration asked them to take $50,000 out this year - so they took out the SAME $50,000 and claimed it as savings. The way the district budgets is so far removed from how any other business budgets.
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