Under the school budget approved by town meeting last week, funding for sports and extracurricular programs was cut in half. The school committee has also voted to charge $100 a year fee for athletics and $40 a year for clubs. All freshman sports, as well as the hockey, volleyball and gymnastics programs, are to be eliminated.

Even with those cuts, school committee Chairman Larry Azer said the school system must come up with an additional $120,000 to maintain all of the remaining programs, or face eliminating additional sports or clubs.

“In five years of making budget cuts, this is the first time we’ve made significant cuts in the athletic budget,” Azer said. “After all the cuts we’ve already made, there was nowhere else to go.”

Azer said the school did not have a gymnastics or volleyball team last year, due to lack of participation. It did have a joint hockey program with Blue Hills Regional Technical High School, but there were only two Randolph High School students participating.

He said the meeting is in response to requests the committee has had from residents to consider fundraising in place of cutting programs.

Along with Azer, School Superintendent Richard Silverman, High School Principal William Conard and Athletic Director Robert Wargo are scheduled to attend to provide information and answer questions.

Fred Hanson may be reached at fhanson@ledger.com.