Livingston Educational Service Agency

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Livingston Educational Service Agency

• 2007-2008 Proposed Budget

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LESA Board of Education

• Julie H. Hill, President (Hartland)
• LuAnn Loy, Vice-President (Brighton)
• Bill Manuel, Treasurer (Howell)
• Harold E. Fryer, Secretary (Fowlerville)
• Gary J. Kaiser, Trustee (Pinckney)

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Primary Budget Assumptions

• General Special Education Revenues
• Property tax growth at 5 with a Millage
  Reduction Fraction of 1.0
• 0 Increase in General Fund State-Aid Allocation
• Special Education Fund reimbursements consistent
  with expenditure growth
• 2 Increase in Federal IDEIA Flowthrough
• Continuation of all Consortium Programs

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Primary Budget Assumptions

• General Special Education Expenditures
• 1.5 Wage Increase (plus increments)
• Retirement Rate Decrease from 17.74 to 16.72
• Health Care Costs to reflect 7 Maximum Agency
  Contribution (i.e. CAP)
• Operational Support equal to prior year base
  level plus 2.5 inflation increase plus 1
  million pay-out from the fund balance
• Expansion of one school bus in the transportation
  fleet and four life-cycle replacements (total
  fleet of 45 Special Education and 8 Head Start
  busses)
• No increase in full-time equivalent staff for
  existing instructional programs
• Mandated services to be provided through the
  re-organization of existing staff which includes
  a 2.2 FTE reduction in Administrative Staff

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Budget Summary
Note The Deficit in the General fund represents
one-time spending for Instructional Consultation
Teams in the amount of 422,100, Adolescent
Literacy Initiatives in the amount of 109,500,
energy conservation initiatives for constituent
districts in the amount of 50,000, and a slight
operating surplus. The Deficit in the Special
Education fund represents a one-time supplemental
pay-out of operational support to constituent
districts.
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Planned Use of Fund Balance

• Projected June 30, 2008 Fund Balance
• General Education Fund - Future Use Continued
  annual funding of County-Wide Instructional
  Consultation Teams, Adolescent Literacy
  Initiatives and Energy Management Initiatives
  until the minimum 8 fund balance level is
  reached.
• Special Education Fund - Future Use Continued
  annual funding of Pathway Bond re-payments until
  the minimum 8 fund balance level is reached.

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