2012-13 Proposed Budget - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

2012-13Proposed Budget

Corvallis School District 509J

The budget situation in the Corvallis School District, like a number of other districts across the state, has suffered from:

Decreases in enrollment

Less funding from the State

Cost increases related to the Public Employees Retirement System (PERS)

The slow economic recovery state-wide

• November, 2011
• Presentation of the Long Range Financial Plan to the board
• November – December, 2011
• Presentations to staff of the budget outlook
• Two community listening sessions
• January – February, 2012
• Online survey to gather input from patrons and staff
• Superintendent’s Budget Task Force meetings
• March, 2012
• Budget Task Force presents recommendations
• Administrators build budget
• April, 2012
• Superintendent presents budget message and proposed budget to the Budget Committee

• All schools are safe and welcoming
• All students are challenged with a broad range of learning opportunities
• Students are prepared to be informed, engaged citizens in their community and the world
• The district will increase achievement for all students while closing the achievement gap
• Available resources are managed to preserve the long-term sustainability of the district

• Do things differently
• Keep cuts as far from the classroom
• Protect class size
• Align budget to resources
• Close achievement gap
• Legal obligations – maintain
• Reality is reality – align with declining enrollment and declining revenue

• The majority of district expenditures are related to people
• Other operating expenditures include:
• Facilities
• Student transportation
• Utilities
• Instructional materials
• Technology
• Copying and printing

Task Force Recommendation:

Use the Rainy Day Reserve of $1,000,000 and adjust Reserves by $350,000

Implementation:

Used about $1.45 million of the Rainy Day Reserve

Task Force Recommendation:

Reduce Days by 4 to save $700,000

Implementation:

Proposed budget is based on 4 reduced days, saving $678,000 (subject to negotiation)

Task Force Recommendation:

Reduce Extra-curricular and Athletic funding by $50,000

Implementation:

Reduced Extra-curricular and Athletic funding by $50,000

Task Force Recommendation:

Reduce school budgets by 5%, or $160,000

Implementation:

Reduced discretionary school budgets by about 6%, or $160,000

Task Force Recommendation:

Reduce department budgets by 5%, or $500,000

Implementation:

Reduced department budgets by 8.2%, or $763,525

Task Force Recommendation:

Decrease classroom instructional staff to align with decreasing enrollment, a savings of $720,000

Implementation:

Decreased classroom instructional staff to align with enrollment, $856,040

Additional Implementations to Fill the Gap:

Increased pupil to teacher ratio of between two and three students, $830,360

Reduced school discretionary allocation to align with decreased enrollment, $80,000