WPCNR SCHOOL DAYS. May 27, 2006: The Board of Education will appoint Fred W. Seiler of Rochester, NY to a three year contract as its 2006-2007 budget strategist replacing Terrance Schruers as Assistant Superintendent for Business after Mr. Schruers retires this September. Seiler takes the unenviable job of planning the $165.8 Million school budget that is facing rip-snorting cost increases in utilities, sensitive salaries (a new contract with the teachers has to be negotiated), and structuring the school board capital projects bond referendum and debt service tentatively planned for October or December 2006. Seiler holds a Bachelor of Arts from Temple University in Business Administration and an MBA fromthe Rochester Institute of Technology.
Mr. Seiler comes from the Spencerport Central School District West of Rochester, just South of the shores of Lake Ontario, from a district of 22,334 residents, with a school budget of $60.6 Million, a little less than one-third of the White Plains School Budget of $165.8 Million. However, the man he will succeed, if approved, Terrance Schruers came from a similar sized upstate district and fit in smoothly to the White Plains financial behemoth.
Seiler has experience in bonding for capital improvements having presided over the formulation of a $15 Million Capital Project bond for Spencertown in the 2006-2007 budget the district just prepared and passed. Seiler is reported as Clerk to the Board of Education and Assistant Superintendent for Business. Spencertwon is a district of 4,411 students, four elementary schools, one middle school and one high school. White Plains has 7,000 students, five elementary schools, two middle schools and one high school.
