WASB hears CCTI manager

by James Hunter

The Weatherly Area School Board approved the 2023-24 budget for the Carbon Career and Technical Institute (CCTI) at their meeting January 17, but not before questioning the school’s business manager, Jeffry Deutsch, who attended the meeting at the invitation of board member Tom Connors Jr. Deutsch answered questions about the CCTI’s spending plan.

Murtsef and his companion Madeline; brothers, Costa “John” Nizamoff and his wife Ruth, and William Nizamoff and his wife Hope; grandchildren, Nicole, Alexander, Stephen, and Joseph Murtsef; companion, Bradley Nelson.

A hairdresser by trade, Victoria enjoyed camping, knitting, long walks and computer games. as well as the companionship of her cats.

Private arrangements have been entrusted to the Philip J. Jeffries Funeral Home & Cremation Services of Weatherly.

Interment will be in Buffalo, New York.

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Deutsch said the $9 million budget includes a $6 million appropriation from the county’s five school districts – Weatherly Area, Panther Valley, Jim Thorpe, Lehighton and Palmerton.” Of the $9 million, we have a $4 million fund balance,” he explained. “$2.3 million of that is designated for programs, and $1.7 million is to fund deficits. We have not had an increase to the school districts in ten years, even though our enrollment is at its highest level ever now. And we get no basic ed, special ed, or transportation subsidies like school districts get. We’re not going to increase funding from school districts until we’re sure the fund balance won’t cover it.” That high enrollment is causing waiting lists for some programs, Deutsch admitted. “Our enrollment is now at 400-plus, and we have waiting lists for cosmetology and culinary (arts) they are the two biggest. We can move classrooms around because

See WASB, page 5