Jmst public schoolsJamestown (CSi) The Jamestown Public School Board Monday evening voted 8-1 to cut $800,000 from the 2014-15 school year budget.

Board member Roy Musland, cast the only dissenting vote, and said aside from the budget cuts the board will have to make, the proposal also includes a raise in property taxes on landowners in the district. The tax increase would bring in approximately $191,000 a year in revenue.

The school district is looking at a projected $800,000 shortfall at the end of this school year and a possible $1.8 million deficit in 2015.

Superintendent Robert Lech says about 80 percent of the JPS budget is earmarked for staff salaries, and Lech said expected staff attrition this spring would allow the district an opportunity to save $200,000 by hiring new teachers at starting salaries of around $40,000 a year.

Two teaching positions are being vacated by retirement, a foreign language teacher at the high school and the Safe Drug-Free Schools coordinator.

The proposed budget plan will be reviewed by the school board including a budget hearing later this year.

The meeting was recorded by CSi 10 THE REPLAY CHANNEL with showings starting later Tuesday.