School cuts come to head

Some recent personnel moves threw a curve ball of sorts at Ely school officials scrambling to come up with a balanced budget for next year.

Recent retirements, resignations and leave requests have upended the budget cutting process and have prompted the district to pivot in advance of a final decision by May 11.

“We’ve kind of had to readjust and move from within and look at where we can share people and move people around,” superintendent Anne Oelke said at Monday’s school board study session. “We don’t want to hire people and then look to reduce in the future.”