Building The FY10 School Budget

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Building The FY10 School Budget

• Dennis-Yarmouth
• Regional School District
• Empowering each student to achieve excellence
  with integrity in a changing world.

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Maintaining Excellence During Challenging
Economic Times
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THE GOAL

• Come as close to level funding as possible while
  maintaining the core values that lead to
  fulfilling our mission.

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DRAFT 5 PRELIMINARYEXPENDITURE BUDGET

• TOTAL
• 50,037,600
• AMOUNT OVER FY09
• 1,326,280
• PERCENT INCREASE
• 2.72

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CORE VALUES

• Maintain a safe school environment for all.
• Ensure a well-rounded program to serve the needs
  of all learners.
• Maintain educationally sound class sizes.
• Ensure equity and consistency.
• Continue to improve student achievement.

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AS STEWARDS OF TAXPAYER

• Efficiencies and Savings
• Lighting Upgrades (17,950)
• Evaluation of Phone Services (10,836)
• Oil Savings (31,602)
• Negotiations over Transportation (27K/yr.)
• Full, prompt payments for Insurance (8,243)
• Open Microsoft Office (5,035)
• Classroom Space Rental (17,500)

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AS STEWARDS OF TAXPAYER

• Ongoing Efficiencies and Savings
• Cooperative purchasing
• Use of Duel Fuel Boilers
• Participation in Energy Conservation Programs
• Three-tiered Bus System
• Use of Self-Insurance Programs
• Collaboration with the Collaborative and other
  Districts for Special Education Services and
  Special Transportation

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How we achieved the Draft 4 and 5 numbers?
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BEGINNING WITH DRAFT 4

• Maintain Staff
• Reduce other non-mandated expenses by 10

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DRAFT 5

• Defer purchases
• Textbooks
• Technology
• Defer maintenance projects
• Reduce supplies to absolute minimum
• Enrollment Review

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CURRENT ENROLLMENT
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DRAFT 5 Thinking Differently

• Changing the High School Schedule
• Aligning MES and MMS School Schedules

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FTE REDUCTIONS DRAFTS 4 5
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Longitudinal Look At FTEs
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Where Are Our School Choice Students Going?
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How Do We Compare?
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How Do We Compare?
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MANDATED COSTS
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Major Cost Drivers
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Major Cost Drivers-Totals
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Impact of Rising SPED Costs
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• Comparing
• Average
• Teacher
• Salaries

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D-Y Teacher Experience Education
FY09 Data
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D-Y Teacher Experience Education
FY10 Projected Data
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Thoughts for the Future
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Economies of Scale

• Refers to the economic principle that as the
  volume of production increases, the cost of
  producing each unit decreases.
• In education, economies of scale are reductions
  in average costs that are realized by spreading
  costs over a larger number of students.
• Source Rennie Center for Education, Research
  and Policy, Lisa Famularo, Ph.D., Fall 2008

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Point where economies of scale are realized
Point where economies of scale are realized
Source Rennie Center for Education Research and
Policy, Lisa Famularo, Ph.D, Fall 2008 Note
Data in this chart are for illustrative purposes
only.
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FY10 DRAFT 5 BUDGET

• TOTAL
• 50,037,600
• AMOUNT OVER FY09
• 1,326,280
• PERCENT INCREASE
• 2.72

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