{"id":27829,"date":"2017-04-19T10:19:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-19T17:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/kent-school-district-hosts-community-budget-meetings-to-discuss-hiring-spending-freeze\/"},"modified":"2017-04-19T10:19:00","modified_gmt":"2017-04-19T17:19:00","slug":"kent-school-district-hosts-community-budget-meetings-to-discuss-hiring-spending-freeze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/kent-school-district-hosts-community-budget-meetings-to-discuss-hiring-spending-freeze\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent School District hosts community budget meetings to discuss hiring, spending freeze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Kent School District will host two budget information meetings to discuss <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/kent-school-district-implements-hiring-spending-freeze\/\" target=\"_blank\">a recently instituted spending and hiring freeze<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>District officials announced the freeze the first week of April to reduce a potential $15 to $20 million budget shortfall for the remainder of the 2016-2017 fiscal year.<\/p>\n<p>The community meetings are scheduled for 6:30-7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 20, in the Kent-Meridian Library, 10020 SE 256th St., and from 6:30-7:30 p.m. Monday, April 24, in the Kentlake Cafeteria, 21401 SE 300th St.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit the district&rsquo;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.k12.wa.us\/site\/default.aspx?PageType=3&#038;DomainID=1&#038;ModuleInstanceID=1352&#038;ViewID=047E6BE3-6D87-4130-8424-D8E4E9ED6C2A&#038;RenderLoc=0&#038;FlexDataID=25185&#038;PageID=1\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Questions or concerns should be directed to the district&rsquo;s finance team at budget@kent.k12.wa.us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kent School District will host two budget information meetings to discuss <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/kent-school-district-implements-hiring-spending-freeze\/\" target=\"_blank\">a recently instituted spending and hiring freeze<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":27830,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-27829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27829"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27829"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=27829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}