CCSD Tentative Budget FY 2011 - 2012; 3/24/11

FY 2012

Tentative Budget Recommendations

March 24^th, 2011

Jeff Weiler

What has happened sofar?

• Online Survey: March 1 – 15
• School Community Meetings: March 1 – 15
• Town Hall Meetings: March 15
• Review of Input: March 17

Where are we?   Short $400 million

• State Funds                                    - $196 million
• Loss of room tax                            - $35 million
• Property tax decrease                     - $48 million
• Fund balance no longer available     - $62 million
• Employee Contractual provisions    - $68 million
• (step, increments, PERS)

What we heard from the survey (12, 958 responses)

Average recommended cuts = $237million

• Do not cut athletics or activities
• Do not cut textbook & supply budgets
• Increase class size by 3 students
• Do not cut ECS’s, Spec. Ed. Facilitators or Librarians
• Do cut Literacy Specialists & ELL Facilitators
• Do not cut teacher prep periods (ES-Art, Music, & PE)
• Reduce transportation provided
• Cut salaries by 2 percent and 3 furlough days
• Reduce administration by 9 percent
• Would support additional revenue sources

Tentative Recommendations (in millions)

• Consolidate school bell times (125 positions)                   $10.0
• Pass along ½ cost of PERS increase                                $14.5
• Must be bargained
• Administrative department budgets (Cut 20%; 449 positions)    $48.7
• School textbook/supply budgets                                       $12.0
•  Cut 25% funds for schools: $22,000 – 87,000
• Ed. Computer Strategist & Literacy Specialists                 $17.7
• 1 ECS in secondary, 1 ECS between 2 elementary (113 positions)
• 1 LS at elementary school at principal’s discretion (100 positions)
• Salary Steps & Educational Increments (freeze)                $39.9
• Must be bargained
• Health Insurance – employee assume part (12%)              $23.2
• Must be bargained; Support Staff $63/month, Licensed $65/month, Admin $80/month
• Reduction in salary (7.8%)                                               $128.3
• Must be bargained
• Staff counselors & School Support Staff at 97%               $2.1                       
• 1 per 400 students at secondary, 1 per 500 at elementary (17 positions)
• Cut School Based Support Staff (45 positions)
• Increase Class Size                                                           $114.6
• Grades 1 – 3 by 3 students; up to 24 students per class (471 positions)
• Grades 4 – 5 by 5 students; up to 35 students per class (235 positions)
• Grades 6 – 12 by 7 students; up to 39 students per class (930 positions)

Total     2,486 Positions     $411

Additional Cuts needed if no concessions are achieved:

• Increase high school transportation radius                          $3.0
• Special Education Facilitators (163  positions)                   $13.4                     
• Magnet school off-ration staffing (197  positions)               $18.6
• English Language Facilitators (160  positions)                    $13.0
• Transportation to select/magnet schools (98  positions)      $10.6
• Transportation to career/tech schools (24  positions)          $2.6
• Yet to be identified . . .                                                      $51.9

Total     3, 925 positions     $113.1                    

Recommendations Summary:

$411 million in Budget Cuts; Between 2,486 & 5,428 positions eliminated; $889 million in annual lost economic output.  Source: Applied Analysis

What's next?

Adoption of tentative Budget: April 6 at 8am

State Economic Forum Meets: May 2

Adoption of Final Budget: May 18 at 5:30pm

Information taken from Jeff Weiler, Presented to the Board of Trustees on April 6, 2011