Meeker

Meyer: Four day week has saved $70,000

MEEKER I At their work session on Feb. 17, the Meeker Board of Education began discussing the budget for fiscal year 2015-16. School district superintendent Mark Meyer reported that the four-day school week produced a savings, from July through December, “not necessarily all-inclusive,” of roughly $70,000.

This figure is comprised of saving $10,470 on substitute teachers (current teachers have been absent less with the four-day week), $24,085 on transportation (partially attributable to lower fuel costs),…