Revised Budget Proposal

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Revised Budget Proposal

• April 3, 2006

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Thinking About Revisions

• What do we want for our children?
• Instruction
• Operations
• Facilities
• Personnel

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Goals for the Budget Process

• A revised budget must
• 1. Maintain and improve programs for students.
• 2. Be easily understood and earn the support of
  our community.

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Choosing Items to Include in the Revised Budget

• The items included in the revised budget need the
  support of our
• Community
• Administrative, Instructional, and Support Staff
• Board of Education

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Superintendents Revised Budget Priorities

• Young Scholars Grades 4 5
• Creation of 1.0 FTE Teacher Assistant Position
  for Elementary Computer Labs
• Young Scholars proposal for Grade 6
• Foreign Language Proposal for Grade 7
• GOAL Proposal for High School
• Technology Replacement Plan

• Creation of 1.0 FTE Director of Technology
  Position (Reallocation of Resources)
• MSP 8
• Expansion of High School Life Skills Program
• Field Trip Funding
• Supplies for Elementary and Athletics
• Reduction in Funding from Original Budget
  Proposal

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Revised Budget Priorities Continued

• Staff Development
• Summer Curriculum
• IEP / 504 Accommodation Aide
• Increased District Library Clerk Time
• Facilities and Equipment
• Head Bus Driver Increase
• Reduction in Funding from Original Budget
  Proposal

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Additional Items Reallocation of Resources

• Health Program Shift from Grade 7 to Grade 6
• Acceleration in Studio Art Opportunity in Grade 8
• SAIL Coach Shift from Grade 6 to Grade 7
• ELA Honors Opportunity in Grade 7
• 1.0 FTE Reduction in Teaching Positions
• Creation of 1.0 FTE Director of Technology
  Position

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New Additions to Superintendents Original Budget

• ELA Honors Opportunity in Grade 8 (Reallocation
  of Resources)
• K1DS Program Split Resulting in a Kindergarten
  and First Grade Program (partial Grant Funding)

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Reductions To Original Superintendents
Recommended Budget

• Reduction in Cost for IEP / 504 Accommodation
  Aide (50 Grant Funded)
• Reduction in Technology Replacement Plan
• Reduction in Request for Head Bus Driver Time
• Breakage from New Resignation
• Reduction in Funding for Facilities and Equipment

• Eliminate Athletic Trainer
• Reduction in Request for Field Trip Funding
• Reduction in Request for Staff Development
  Funding
• Eliminate .3 FTE Float Nurse Position
• Reduction in Request for Creation of 2.0 FTE
  Teacher Assistant Positions for Elementary
  Computer Lab Aides

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Financial Implication of Revised Budget

• Superintendents Revised Budget
• Total Budget 41,945,901
• Expenditure Increase 4.71

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What Do We Know?

• The Estimated Tax Levy Increase 3.47
• The Tax Rate is more difficult to determine due
  to our not knowing the impact of the property
  reassessment. Utilizing our previous assessment
  data and prediction we believe the estimated
  increase in the Tax Rate will be 2.54 .

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Next Steps

• Board of Education Adopts the Superintendents
  Revised Budget Proposal.
• Board of Education agrees to add, delete, or
  modify items that are part of the proposed
  budget.