Mission Statement

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Mission Statement

• The mission of the Watertown School District,
  with determination to be a world-class
  educational leader and a centerpiece of a dynamic
  and growing community, is to meet the diverse
  needs of each student - academic, artistic,
  athletic, emotional, ethical, social, and
  technological - to develop members of our
  community who
• ?embrace life-long learning
• ?are caring and responsible citizens
• ?have a sense of social justice.
• This will be accomplished by
• ?establishing high expectations for all students
  
• ?partnering with parents and the community as a
  whole
• ?providing the differentiated instruction,
  guidance and resources necessary to achieve these
  high expectations set forth for our students,
  staff, and community.

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Budget Overview
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Summary of Factors Informing 2009-2010 Requested
Budget

• Context Each budget proposal is related directly
  to local school-based or program factors and
  prior year budget allocation.
• Factors Impacting the 2009-2010 budget proposal
• Enrollment modest decline system wide 84
  students middle school
• Economic collapse Declining revenues from state
  state 1 billion deficit projection
• Employee Benefits Funding level of the Town
  Pension Plan impacted by poor performing
  investment market
• Special Services Reduced funding of Excess Cost
  Sharing Grant
• Comprehensive Literacy We must intervene to meet
  needs of ALL learners.
• Correctives 342,490 to correct underfunded
  accounts inclusive of 56,569 for reduction in
  Pay to Participate fees.

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Distribution of Proposed Budget Expenditures by
Percent
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Salary Wages Certified Staff
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Salaries Wages Non-Certified Staff

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Local, State and National Level Unknowns in
the Budget

• Local
• of teacher retirements
• Paraprofessional contract settlement
• Town Pension plan funding level
• State
• Unfunded mandates passed on to town
• Education Cost Sharing Grant (ECS) funding
• Excess Cost Grant funding percentage (special
  education)
• National
• NCLB legislation
• Impact of Economic Recovery Plan
• Federal Erate Program Status
• Grant Funding Levels

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Current and Projected Enrollments

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Elementary School Enrollments
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Budget Priorities Contributions to Budget
Increase
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Correctives or Adjustments Contributing to
Current Service Increase
Total 342,490 Cumulative
Increase to Current Service .97
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Substitute Account

• Corrective of 207,780 to accurate level of
  expenditures across the system
• Substitutes for paraprofessionals, school nurses,
  secretaries, as well as teachers
• Teachers require substitutes for district PD
  initiatives such as curriculum writing,
  technology training, as well as PPT meetings

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New RequestGrade 5 Teacher Polk

• Enrollment Projection 391 students
• Six sections at each grade level
• 129 - 4th grade students rolling up to 5th grade
• 129 students from J.T.P.S. moving to Gr. 3
• Heminway Park 2009-2010
• Conversion of Library Computer Lab into
  classrooms
• NCLB Status In Need of Improvement Yr. 2
• COST 45,269

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Enhancement of Student Programming

• Watertown High School
• Art Teacher (.4 FTE)
• Expand course offerings in Art
• Interdisciplinary Humanities Course
• Ceramics, sculpture electives
• Aligns with best practice and NEASC accreditation
  
• COST 28,826

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Swift Middle School 6th Grade The Options for
09-10

• A. Keep it the same as 08-09
• Not equitable 78 students per team
• The rest of the district not at pace with middle
  school
• District-wide the needs are too great not to
  reallocate
• B. Eliminate the 3rd team but keep the 4 teacher
  dual content area model (social studies)
• Results in class sizes between 31-33 students
• C. The Decision Eliminate the 3rd team and
  redeploy 2 teachers as Social Studies gr. 6

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Current Service Reallocation of Staff

• Swift Middle School eliminate one 6th grade
  team redeploy 5 teachers across the system
• Two teachers to 6th grade teams Social Studies
• One teacher to JTPS early intervention reading
• One teacher to WHS academic literacy reading
• One special education teacher to WHS

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Recent and Projected Cost Savings in the
Watertown Education Budget 2008-2010

• Source of Savings Amount
• Contract Negotiations 150,000
• (Health Insurance)
• Insurance Buy Back 26,600
• Step Increment Freeze (WEA) 421,379
• Federal Erate Program 90,000
• Medicaid 32,000
• SyAM Computer Software 50,000
• Fiber Optic Line Reduction (5 Total) 22,000
• Total Savings 791,979

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Unmet Personnel Needs
Certified Personnel Positions not in FY 2009-2010
Budget Position FTE Salary Schedule Salary
RLA Consultant (JTPS) 1.0 6th
Yr-9 62,730 Behaviorist (K-12) 1.0 6th
Yr-9 62,730 Total Unmet Certified
Requests 125,460 Non-Certified Personnel
Positions not in FY 2009-2010 Budget Position F
TE Salary Schedule Salary Nurse
(WHS/SMS) 1.0 Entry Rate 31,840 RTC
Tutor 1.0 30,000 (Responsible Thinking
Classroom Swift Middle School) Total Unmet
Non-Certified Requests 61,840
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Current Services Textbooks

• 2009-2010 Textbook Acquisitions
• High School 47,332
• English 10
• Spanish 3,4, 5 Honors
• Precalculus
• AP U.S. History
• Middle School 67,702
• Gr. 8 Spanish and French
• Textbook Replacement
• Elementary 46,000
• Gr. 5 Reading (StoryTown)
• Primary 15,749
• Non-fiction Material
• Leveled Readers
• Total 176,783

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Curriculum, Textbooks, TechnologyThe Future

• Next two years (FY 2009-2011)
• Curriculum Revision Cycle
• Math K-8
• English Language Arts K-8
• World Languages 8-12
• W.H.S. Courses
• Textbook Replacement Cycle
• Alignment with curriculum revision
• Elementary science kits
• Technology
• Smartboard Technology at all grade levels
• Site licenses and software for district-wide
  research based reading intervention programs

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Health Insurance12 Month Claims Summary
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Town Pension Plan
2002 Town Pension Account ? FY 09-10
Contribution 68,598 82.10 ? Impact of the
Economic Downturn
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Transportation Operations

• Professional Services
• Utilities
• Maintenance Services
• Transportation Other Services
• Supplies Materials
• Equipment

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Professional Services

• 1.8 of Budget Request - 154,364 increase
• Consultant Services for Special Education
• ADMINS service contract plus implementation of
  modern financial/HR system
• Legal Counsel
• Ongoing union negotiations
• Special Ed Hearings
• BOE counsel and advice

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Utilities

• 3.5 of Budget Request 38,375 Reduction
• All rates, except Natural Gas, are locked in for
  2009-10
• Cost of Heating Oil down by 1.09
• Telephone increased to cover full cost of current
  services

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Maintenance Services

• 1.3 of Budget Request - 59,600 Increase
• Routine cleaning and maintenance of school
  facilities
• Service contracts for building systems
• Turf and track maintenance
• Slight increase to maintain level of service
• Maintenance Projects
• Repairs to HVAC and floor tiles at JTPS
• 5-Year Capital Improvement Plan

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Transportation Other Services

• 6.1 of Budget Request - 171,496 Increase
• 1st year of new 4-Yr First Student contract
• Rates increase 3 per year
• Polk bus added in 08-09 reduce overcrowding
• Polk/Heminway bus added in 09-10 for Walkers
• Diesel fuel price locked in for 2009-10
• S/E transportation increased
• Prop/Liability Insurances up nearly 10
• Athletic transportation PTP shortfall
• Infinite Campus - full implementation fees

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Equipment

• 0.2 of Budget Request - 35,410 Increase
• Ongoing vehicle purchase program no increase
• Instructional Equipment
• Replacement of classroom equipment
• Upgrade and replacement technology at JTPS
• 3-yr lease-purchase proposed
• Replacement of old network hardware and servers

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Supplies Material

• 2.3 of Budget Request - 74,517 Increase
• Extremely limited funding in all areas
• Teaching supplies up 21.5 to start regaining
  adequate level of funding iaw CGS 10-220
• Textbooks and Workbooks
• Replacement texts in some subject areas
• StoryTown into 5th grade
• Classroom leveled and non-fiction books at JTPS
• Library Books start to build volumes in school
  libraries

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Total Projected Municipal Budget FY 2009-2010

• FY FY
  PER CENT
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  08-09 09-10 INCREASE INCREASE
• 1) 2009 School Bonding
  1,407,000
  1,407,000
• Town Expenditures
• Excluding 2009 School
• Bonding, 23,386,146 23,698,110
  311,964 1.33
• Total Town
  23,386,146 25,105,110
  1,718,964 7.35
• Board of Education
  35,205,816 37,283,050
  2,077,234 5.90
• Grand Total
  58,591,962 62,388,160
  3,796,198 6.48
• 2) Current Mill Rate 24.35
• New Mill Rate 23.98
• Decrease (.37)
• 3) Analysis of Mill Rate Dollars
• One mill (1.0) 1,800,000
• Three quarters mill (.75)
  1,350,000
• One half mill (.50) 900,000

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American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA)

• CT State Stabilization Fund -542 Million
• Governor Rells Budget ALL stabilization Funds to
  K-12 education over 2 years
• Funds directed into Education Cost Sharing flat
  funding for 2010 and 2011
• ECS allocations must be used exclusively for
  education and not for municipal expenditures
• Governor using stabilization money to SUPPLANT
  ECS money.
• Major K-12 job losses around the state

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ARRA Funding to District

• Entitlement under IDEA
• Preliminary IDEA Part B - 786,449
• Preliminary IDEA Preschool- 24,320
• Purpose
• Expand learning time, Professional
  Development/technical assistance, increased
  capacity, Direct services to students and parents
• Maintenance of Effort
• Supplant vs. Supplement

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ARRA Possible BOE Budget Relief

• Fund the Deficit of Special Education Excess Cost
  250,000
• Fund the Increase in In-Service Training
• 26,100
• Total Possible Reduction 276,100
• BOE Requested Budget 37,006,950
• Percent Increase 5.1

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Present/Future Needs

• Texts/Learning Resources Technology
• Reading intervention/comprehensive literacy-ELLs
• Class Size Maintenance
• Capital Improvement/Maintenance Plan
• Early Intervention
• Alternative Education programming
• Curriculum Development
• Professional Development
• Leadership Development
• Continuous Improvement of Teaching Learning
• Overall Goal Enhance Student Learning
• Opportunities/Outcomes