Budget Area 6: BOCES Programs & Services

During the final Community Roundtable, which took place on Monday, March 8, participants discussed each area of the school budget and made recommendations to the Board of Education regarding which programs and services could be cut and which should be maintained. In order to keep the conversation going, we invite readers to post their thoughts on the following question that was presented to participants at the Community Roundtable. (Click here to read a PDF document that outlines the steps taken so far in the budget development process.)

Local Boards of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES) offer programs and services to area school districts throughout New York State. Broadalbin-Perth is part of the Hamilton-Fulton-Montgomery (HFM) BOCES.

BOCES were established in 1948 as a means for school districts to offer specialized services that they could not afford on their own. New York State encourages school districts to use BOCES services by offering state aid on BOCES purchases. Broadalbin-Perth receives 74% state aid on 95% of the programs and services it purchases through BOCES; this reimbursement is applied to the following year’s budget.