NORTHAMPTON — The School Committee has called a special meeting for Wednesday afternoon at which members will go into executive session to discuss and possibly vote on a response to a vote of no-confidence the school union recently issued against Superintendent Portia Bonner.

The meeting, to be held virtually from 4 to 6 p.m., will also include discussion about the school budget in open session.

Meanwhile, the City Council has called its own virtual special meeting for next Tuesday at 7:30 p.m., at which councilors are expected to decide whether to accept Mayor Gina-Louise Sciarra’s amended city budget that would increase funding for the schools. The council voted down the amended budget last week, with detractors saying it didn’t go far enough in preventing cuts to the school system.

Up first is the School Committee meeting on Wednesday, at which leaders of the Northampton Association of School Employees will get 15 minutes to share information about the union’s no-confidence vote against Bonner. The committee will then discuss and vote on a response to that action.

NASE’s vote was taken amid an ongoing debate over the direction of the city’s school budget, with a high likelihood of job cuts for the district this year.

In statements made earlier this month, Bonner pushed back against the union’s claims she had not done enough to advocate for school funding.

“It seems that if I am not demanding the budget package sought by the union, then I have not met their standard of advocacy,” Bonner said. “I also met with Sen. Comerford to discuss Chapter 70 funding and state support to increase funding for Northampton. Is that not advocating?”

After the executive session, the committee will discuss two different school budgets — one that reflects an increase of 5% next fiscal year and another that reflects an 8% increase.

Because the City Council voted down the amended budget last week that would have meant an 8% increase for the schools, under state law the city’s budget reverts back to the originally proposed 5% budget increase for schools.

The council will vote on whether to adopt the additional funds in the amended version at its special meeting next week.

The difference between the original proposed budget by the mayor, and the later amended budget is around $1 million. If the amended budget were to pass, then around 20 jobs in the district would likely have to be cut, with even more if going off the mayor’s original budget.

Alexander MacDougall can be reached at amacdougall@gazettenet.com.