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Editor s Notes: Show the work — School Board must see budget to oversee it

(5/26/2021)   I have to praise Winona Area Public Schools (WAPS) School Board members Steve Schild and Michael Hanratty for calling on school administrators to “show the work” and show the School Board what’s in their draft budget (see story page 4B). Every year, the city of Winona and Winona County present elected leaders with draft budgets that can be over 200 pages long, breaking down every single expense from how much the library has to spend on new books to how much the police department is budgeting for postage. Staff walk elected leaders through all the details five months in advance of the final budget deadline. By contrast, in a normal year, WAPS prepares budget books that are around 50 pages long, with high-level information about general categories of spending. This year, with one month to go before the deadline, WAPS has only given the board a two-page summary of the proposed budget. That’s the fiscal equivalent of glancing at Cliffs Notes befor

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