![[PiC] Thank You For Your Support](https://dcboces.org/sites/default/files/dcboces/images/Thank%20You%20for%20Your%20Support%20Graphic.png "Thank You For Your Support")
The Dutchess BOCES 2019-2020 budget was approved by all thirteen component school districts during school board meetings on April 23, 2019. Incumbent Board members, Ralph Chiumento and Ralph Coates were elected to serve three-year terms beginning July 1, 2019.
![[PIC] Calculator and Spreadsheet](https://www.dcboces.org/sites/default/files/dcboces/images/budget_19_20.jpg)
Dutchess BOCES’ annual budget, and associated annual meeting and budget presentations, give us opportunity to review our financial future with component districts and with the community at large. We appreciate the opportunity to meet, listen, discuss, and plan for the future with component Boards and staff.
![[PIC] Student Participant and CTI Judge Look Over Wood Working Excercise](https://dcboces.org/sites/default/files/dcboces/images/cti/FBjudging.jpg "] Student Participant and CTI Judge Look Over Wood Working Excercise")
The Dutchess BOCES Career and Technical Institute hosted the Annual Spring Expo on Saturday, April 6. Visitors learned about programs from CTI students and instructors. Demonstrations included carpentry, auto body repair, cosmetology, criminal investigation, agriculture, residential wiring, graphic design, film & video production, early childhood education, culinary skills and health occupations.
![[PIC] Graphic Of Ideas Being Exchanged In A Meeting Environment](https://www.dcboces.org/sites/default/files/dcboces/images/annual_meeting_19_20.png)
The Dutchess BOCES proposed 2019-2020 Budget presentation was held on April 6th at 11:30 a.m.in the Cafe of the Career and Technical Institute at 5 BOCES Rd. in Poughkeepsie. The budget presentation was part of the larger EXPO activities that morning.
![[PIC] Assistant Professor of Education Dr. Jane Bean-Folkes Instructs SPC Students](https://www.dcboces.org/sites/default/files/dcboces/images/spc/spc_marist_partnership.png "Assistant Professor of Education Dr. Jane Bean-Folkes Instructs SPC Students")
Dutchess BOCES is celebrating a yearlong partnership with Marist College that helps develop future teachers by immersing them in special education classrooms early in their college careers.
![[PIC] 2019 SkillsUSA Student Competitors and Advisiors](https://www.dcboces.org/sites/default/files/dcboces/images/cti/skillsusa_2019.png "2019 SkillsUSA Student Competitors and Advisiors")
Dutchess BOCES hosted the regional SkillsUSA competition for the first time on March 14th. Students from Dutchess, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Sullivan, Ulster, and Westchester counties competed in 30 fields.
On March 14th 2019, more than 200 BOCES students, mostly juniors and seniors, competed in the annual SkillsUSA Area 4 Regional Competition held at the Dutchess Community College and CTI campuses.