Welcome everyone to our first Budget meeting just for SPCs. Part of the school act states that distr

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Introduction

• Welcome everyone to our first Budget meeting just
  for SPCs. Part of the school act states that
  districts must consult with SPCs on staffing and
  resources, plus our own policy 1030R1 provides
  for this as well. So the purpose of this meeting
  is to increase understanding of how we budget
  funds for the schools. This will also allow
  better discussions when the Board sets its budget
  priorities for the year.
• We are going to review some overall budget
  information
• Present details of school budgets
• Well then review how the school growth plans
  tie into our budgets
• Talk about School Centered Leadership

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Budget Process Goals

• Engage Schools and Communities in the Process
• Ensure that the decisions are aligned with the
  student achievement goals, both district and
  school
• Make spending decisions that reflect priorities
  for district and school programs
• Ensure that the decisions are clearly
  communicated and periodically reviewed

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Some Challenges

• The next few slides are meant to help you
  understand some of the challenges we face.

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School-age and Senior Population as a percent of
BC total, 1994/95 2013/14
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Constant pressure

• Substitutes 100,000
• Benefits 200,000
• Teacher Increments 300,000
• Less Students 900,000
• Staff Savings -450,000
• PVP EXC steps 30,000
• Supplies Inflation 125,000
• Total 1,205,000
• Over the next four years to 09/10 this would mean
  we need to reduce staff, programs, or supplies by
  a total of 4,820,000
• Assumes no raises

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Project Surplus\Deficit

• At this time we are projecting a surplus of
  892,000 that is slightly higher than the planned
  surplus in the preliminary budget.
• This was a deliberate plan of the Board as they
  were trying to stretch out the large budget
  increase last year to allow what had been added
  back into the budgets to be maintained for more
  than one year

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Budget Estimates for 06/07

• With enrolment of 8902 FTE our revenues would
  total 65,352,298
• Our expenditures for the year would be
  65,609,958 This would leave a balance of to be
  cut of 257,903 This is on a status quo basis
  and doesnt contemplate adjustments to class
  size which should be cut in half as we put in
  those extras half way through the year,
  increased costs, or reductions in instructional
  staff for declining enrolments.
• One surprise is that last year the Ministry
  announced we would get 150 million extra in 05/06
  and 20 million extra in the two year after that.
  Guess what is being used to fund the extension of
  the class size adjustments that were originally
  funded out of the strike savings
• This year the budget process will be more
  complicated as we first have to remove all the
  effects of the strike and then the adjustments
  that the ministry added back. We also can expect
  there will be a wage increase but at this time we
  have no firm numbers and can only hope all
  increases will be funded by the Ministry. In the
  future we expect any extra funding from the
  Ministry to be targeted.

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Staffing of Schools Teaching Staff

• Legislated class size K-3
• Class District average Individual
• Kindergarten 19 22
• Multigrade with K 19 22
• Grade 1-3 21 24
• Multigrade without K 21 24
• Primary/intermediate split 21 24
• District class size ratios (targeted) for 4-12
• Class Average Targeted Max
• Grade 4-6 28 30
• Grade 7-9 23 30
• Grade 10-12 24 30

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Support Staff

• See handout

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Special Education Staffing

• Creating School Profiles
  Allocation Needs Criteria
• Student designations (numbers of students
  identified as learning disabled, moderate
  intellectual disability, moderate behaviour)
• Number of low incidence students (level 1/ 2)
• Number of Intensive Behaviour Intervention/
  Serious Mental Illness students (level 3)
• Number of aboriginal students
• Numbers of ESL/ ESD students
• Counseling caseloads
• K screening
• FSA results
• Letter grades
• Provincial exam results

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• Elementary students not yet meeting
  expectations in literacy and numeracy
• DART assessment data
• Early numeracy assessment data
• Growth plan data
• Satisfaction surveys
• TCS district results
• EDI information
• Socio economic data (numbers of students in care/
  numbers of families on social assistance, numbers
  of students on independent living)
• Transition rates (transience)
• Family income/ family education levels
• School meal programs
• Long term tracking of feeder schools
• Attendance

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Detailed School budgets

• Handouts

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School budgets and their tie into School Growth
Plan

• 3 main areas of funding.
• School Growth funds of 4 per student, learning
  resources, and library supplies. Can also move
  other general supplies funds.
• Look at goals like literacy and might want to add
  funds into more books at the library
• If improved math is the goal may want more math
  manipulative
• Examples

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School Growth Funds

• These funds are set at 4 per student
• If the school doesnt spend the funds, they are
  put back into the pool. Our expectation is for
  the funds to be spent each year.
• If a school does spend all of the funds they can
  apply to the district for additional support.
  They would need to develop a plan and rationale
  for their project or idea

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School Centered Leadership

• Following is some excerpts from a presentation
  given by the Deputy Minister Emery Dosdall
• The object of his presentation was to develop a
  shared understanding of SCL and how it allows for
  effective local decisions to improve student
  achievement
• Certainly an indication of how serious the
  Ministry takes the role of SPCs and parents in
  decision making around budgets
• Might be the future?

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• We have the responsibility to improve performance
  for all students
• Our achievement levels are high when compared to
  other jurisdictions
• Pressure from parents and community for even
  higher levels
• Pressure to keep up with other jurisdictions as
  they improve
• A performance plateau will require significant
  change to see continued improvement

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• Give schools more control over decision making in
  order to increase student achievement
• When decision are made closer to the students the
  right decisions are made
• Effective schools are empowered schools
• Leadership for learning is required in every
  school
• Offer to participate given to all school
  districts, may provide some incentives for early
  adopters

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Students
Pac
Community
Teachers
Support Staff
Principal SPC
Superintendent
Secretary Treasurer
Trustees
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• Move decision making closer to the students
• Give schools greater authority and ability to
  make decisions that impact the learning of their
  students
• Requires effective and appropriate involvement of
  staff parents and students
• They hope to pilot this idea in one or more
  schools in 06/07 in each participating district
• Again. I included this as more as a discussion
  point to see where we as a district would stand
  on this issue

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Budget Time lines

• We will get detailed numbers and instruction in
  the middle of March
• I will ask the Finance Committee later this week
  to help me set out the consultation meeting
  schedule. In general terms I would like to see
  one soon after spring break with all our
  education partners and then one with the public
  soon after that to allow the Board to receive
  feed back to discuss changes at a later public
  meeting

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Priorities

• This would be a good time to review what in your
  minds should be the priorities for the Board to
  consider in setting next years budget.
• That would also be both things that need to be
  maintained/ added or less emphasis placed on
  them.
• We will shortly have some budget information to
  go on the web and that will include directions on
  how to provide input to the trustees on the
  upcoming budget.

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Questions?

• Thoughts?