Superintendents FY2008 Budget Message

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Superintendents FY2008 Budget Message

• William H. Lupini, Ed.D.
• Superintendent of Schools
• Thursday, March 15, 2007

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FY2008 Budget Message

• 3.2 million deficit
• 1.2 million deficit for Town Departments
• 2 million deficit for Schools
• Benefits budget increase of 12.8
• Operating Revenue up 6 million
• Wages and Benefits up 7.6 million

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FY2007 FY2008Projected Town/SchoolPartnership
Revenue Changes

• Revenue
• Property Tax 4.9M
• Local Revenue (Fees, Fines, Permits, etc.) 0.7M
• State Aid 0.3M
• Other (Adjusted for Free Cash and CIP
  (0.2M)
• Total Revenue 5.7M
• Expenses
• Allocated Fixed Costs 3.8M
• Allocated Personnel Benefits (Schools _at_
  1.9M) 4.1M 1.9M
• Allocation of Revenues to Schools 1.23M

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Net Revenue GrowthBrookline Public Schools
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Significant Issues for FY2008

• Health Insurance
• Enrollment Growth
• FY2007 Shortfall
• Unpredictable Nature of State Funding
• Loss of Grant Funds
• Building Maintenance
• Adult Community Education

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Health Insurance

• Health insurance now consumes 12.5 of the
  Operating Budget vs 6 in FY00.
• Budgetary growth of 13M (149) during the same
  period.
• Since 2000, enrollment has grown by 295 (11.2),
  due to school employment, compounding the
  cumulative growth of 120 in premiums.
• FY08 total cost of Blue Choice family plan
  19,114.

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FY2008 StrategyMeeting Preliminary Funding Target

• Reductions
• Central Administration 446K
• PK-8 (Elementary) 661K
• High School 567K
• Benefits 133K
• Repair and Maintenance 200K
• Grants and Other (Title I, Steps to Success,
  etc) 50K
• Total Reductions 2,057,000
• Enhancements (BRYT, Mandarin, Supplies) 317K
• One-Time Funding (Steps to Success, Adult
  Ed.) 355K

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Educational Enhancements and Accomplishments

• Collective Bargaining
• Classroom Materials
• Program Review
• Staffing Equity
• Special Education
• Replacement of Grant Funds

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Expenditure Reductions Central Administration

• Advertising
• Unfilled Positions from FY2007 Budget Freeze
• Computer Equipment
• Transportation/Custodial Secretary
• Application Support Position
• Substitute Teacher Hiring and Assignment
  Functions
• Hiring Retirees

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Expenditure Reductions Central Administration

• Permanent Building Substitute Teachers
• Maintenance and Repair
• Regular Transportation
• Director of Professional Development and Special
  Initiatives
• Town-wide Literacy and Mathematics Specialists
• Teaching and Learning Accounts
• Steps to Success

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Expenditure Reductions Elementary Schools

• Classroom Consolidations
• Title I Funding
• Literacy Specialists
• Mathematics Specialists
• Educational Technology Teacher
• Northeastern aides
• Elementary Library Assistants
• Supply Budgets
• Before and After School Programs

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Literacy Specialists
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Mathematics Specialists
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Expenditure Reductions Brookline High School

• Teaching Administrators
• Teaching Staff
• Psychologist
• Equity Project Teacher-Leader
• Educational Technology Staff
• Reading and Writing Project
• Guidance Counselors
• Secretarial Support
• Teachers Mentoring Teachers
• Career Center

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BHS Staff
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Additional Revenues

• Materials Fee
• High School Transportation Fee
• After-School Performing Arts Fee

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Other Considerations of Note

• Contingencies
• K-12 Coordinator of ELL Programs
• Staffing Equity
• Early Childhood Tuition Rates
• Adult Community Education
• Health Insurance Adjustment
• Class Size
• Program Review

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Town Mitigation Plan

• 1M in Fee and Fine Increases
• Adopt increases in various fees and fines,
  including parking enforcement and regulation,
  meter rates and refuse fee.
• 1M in Health Insurance Savings
• All unions would need to agree to changes in plan
  design.
• Savings could be as high as 1.9 million - 1.425
  million in the Town budget and 475K for
  employees.
• Coalition Bargaining

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Town Add-Back Strategy

• Public Schools
• We would receive 50 of add-back revenues.
• Public Safety
• 225K for two police officer positions and two
  firefighter positions
• Non-Public Safety
• 75K for restoration of non-public safety
  positions and accounts
• Building Repair and Maintenance
• A recommended restoration of 200K, which will
  include some School Department work.
• Collective Bargaining
• Reserved for collective bargaining with town
  unions

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Potential Additions and Restorations

• Guidance Counselors _at_ Brookline H.S.
• Mathematics Specialists
• Social Worker _at_ Brookline H.S.
• Literacy Specialists
• Building Repair and Maintenance
• Title I

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Mathematics Specialists
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Literacy Specialists
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Potential Additions and Restorations

• Computer Equipment
• Northeastern aides
• Tuition Reimbursement Professional Development
• Heath Insurance Adjustment

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School Committee Budget DirectivesFY2008
Priorities

• Maintenance and Repair of School Buildings
• Restoration List includes 100,000
• Program Review
• Supplies, Materials and Curriculum Development
• Staffing Recommendations in Visual Arts
• Enhancement List includes increase to Mathematics
  Specialists

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School Committee Budget DirectivesFY2008
Priorities

• The Equity Project
• Early Childhood Programs
• Restoration List includes Literacy Specialists
• 41 Program at Brookline High School
• Steps to Success
• Longer School Day
• Override Study Group
• Elementary World Language
• K-6 Mandarin Program _at_ Driscoll School

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Town/School Long-Range Strategy

• 6M Deficit for FY2009
• Municipal Partnership Act
• Revenue Sharing (Local Aid)
• Group Health and Other Savings
• Override

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Municipal Partnership Act

• Highlights
• Additional (up to) 1 Hotel Excise Tax (local
  option)
• New (up to) 2 Meals Tax (local option)
• Telecommunication Tax Loophole Closings
• Municipal entry to the GIC
• Property Tax Exemption Fund
• Underperforming Pension Systems asset transfer
  to PRIT
• Borrowing flexibility
• Minimal or no relief anticipated for FY2008
• Hotel Excise Tax, Meals Tax, and
  Telecommunication Taxes could generate close to
  2M in new revenue on an annual basis.
• Entry into the GIC could provide additional group
  health savings.

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Thank You

• In this very difficult budget environment, I want
  to thank (at least) the following individuals and
  groups for their amazing work in crafting the
  FY2008 spending plan
• Peter Rowe
• Jennifer Fischer-Mueller
• Candace McCann
• Steve Barrasso
• Michael DOnofrio
• Headmaster and Principals
• Curriculum and Program Coordinators (PK-12)
• We look forward to your questions about this
  proposal.