Roanoke County Public Schools

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Roanoke County Public Schools

• Budget Overview
• for 2005-06
• January 26, 2005

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Roanoke County Schools

• 17th largest school division in Virginia
• 27 schools
• Employ 1,243 teachers
• Population of 87,300
• 16 of them are students

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School Budget is made up of

• Operating Fund
• Nutrition Fund
• Grants Fund
• Textbook Fund
• Bus Fund
• Capital Fund
• Alternative Education Fund
• Debt Fund

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Budget Teams

• Several groups of people working on various
  portions of the total school budget.

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Senior Staff Budget Team

• Managers from each departmental area of the
  school system.

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Teachers Salary Team

• 2 School Board Members
• 6 RCEA Members
• 1 Non-RCEA Member
• Personnel Staff
• Finance Staff

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Classified Salary Team

• 2 School Board members
• Transportation
• Maintenance
• Secretarial
• School Nutrition
• Instructional Assistant
• Personnel Staff
• Finance Staff

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Administrative Salary Team

• 2 School Board members
• Elementary principal
• Middle school principal
• High school principal
• Personnel staff
• Finance staff

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Superintendents Budget Team

• All 5 Board Members
• Superintendent
• Assistant Superintendents
• Directors
• RCEA President
• County Finance Officer

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Important Dates

• January 26 Public Hearing
• Feb 16 enrollment, preliminary revenues
• Feb 22 department budgets, personnel
• Mar 2 revenue, health insurance, other funds
• March 8 Joint School County work session
• March 9 and 16 budget work sessions
• March 23 School Board adopts budget
• April 1 School budget to County
• May 1 County adoption of School budget

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Where do we get our funding?
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Average Daily Membership
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Enrollment Growth the trend is upwards.
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How do we spend it?

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Per pupil spending

• 7,960 estimated for FY04-05
• 6 increase over last year

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Average Teacher Salary how do we compare?

• National Average 45,930
• Salem 44,492
• Roanoke County 44,139
• Virginia Average 42,778
• Botetourt 42,738
• Roanoke City 41,468
• Bedford 36,524
• Montgomery County 37,390

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Teacher Salary Benchmarks..

• 59th for beginning teachers
• 53rd for 10 years
• 29th for 20 years
• 76th for 30 years

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Past Salary Increases (average)

• 05-06 ???
• 04-05 3.5
• 03-04 2.0
• 02-03 2.5
• 01-02 4.0

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Past Benefit Increases

• No change in level of benefits !!
• VRS premiums up by 1.5 million
• Health premiums up by .8 million

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Cost of 1 Raises

• Teachers 605,000
• Administration 71,000
• Classified 135,000
• Total 811,000

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Instructional positions funded 100 with local
dollars

• 151 teachers
• 127 instructional assistants
• 23 assistant principals
• This means smaller class sizes!

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School System Priorities

• Maintain and continue progress on Six Year Plan
• Focus on competitive employee salaries
• Address new initiatives with creative redirection
  of funds
• Lobby General Assembly for full funding of SOQ
  and teacher salary increases

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Likely to see in the 05-06 budget

• Improvement in sales tax collections
• Staffing and salaries
• Higher enrollment more state aid teachers
• Small class sizes
• New SOQ technology positions
• VRS rate increase
• Rise in employee medical premiums
• Rise in utility rates/demand charges
• No Child Left Behind mandates
• Laptop initiative year 4 will be in grades
  9-12
• Capital funding for future

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Governors Proposed Budget

• Updates SOQ costs
• Funds 1.75 teacher raises for year (3 as of Dec
  1)
• Increases VRS rate by .59 (cost of .5M)
• Net proposed increase 3.3M new state revenues
• Subject to modification by General Assembly

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Taxpayer Value

• 100 of our schools fully accredited
• Good schools attract good business.
• Good schools attract more students.
• Good schools increase property values.

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How can you help?

• Contact your legislators and ask them to..
• Fully fund the state share of public education,
• Fund teacher salary increases,
• Fund school capital needs.

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Legislator Contacts

• Senator Edwards district21_at_sov.state.va.us
• Senator Bell district22_at_sov.state.va.us
• Delegate Fralin Del_Fralin_at_house.state.va.us
• Delegrate Griffith Del_Griffith_at_house.state.va.us
  
• Delegate Ware Del_Oware_at_house.state.va.us
• Also see www.rcs.k12.va.us for contact
  information.

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Yet Another Challenge