School Committees Recommended FY05 Budget

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School Committees Recommended FY05 Budget

• Lexington Public Schools
• Investing in our schools where ALL children can
  learn

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Our Mission

• Our classrooms are full of unique learners, and
  our mission is for each of them to reach high
  standards.

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Vision for Lexington Public Schools

• Inspirational principals and caring teachers
• Learning environments that are responsive to
  all students needs
• Comprehensive curriculum that includes
  physical education, art,
  music, health and foreign
  language
• Appropriate and equitable resources
• Fair and equitable student teacher loads
• Ongoing professional development
• Safe, clean and well maintained schools
• Ample materials, supplies and equipment
• Up-to-date textbooks
• More than minimal administrative support and
  infrastructure for a 6100 student school
  system

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We are a large school system. Next years
freshman class will be the largest class at LHS
since 1981. Class of 2008 - 546 students
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Total Actual 2003-04 6028 students Total
Projected 2004-05 6161 students
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• Our budget work is based on the belief that
  the most important interactions that take place
  are between the teacher and the student. We have
  labored to build a budget that does the least
  damage to our mission. However, the cumulative
  impact of reductions made over the past three
  years has and will have an impact on the quality
  of the educational experience for Lexingtons
  students of today and tomorrow.

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School Committee Recommended FY05 Budget

FY 04 Appropriated 62,787,454 FY 05
Recommended 66,757,468 Less Benefits
Reduction (400,000) Grand Total FY
05 Budget 66,357,468 Increase
3,570,014 Increase
5.7
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The Reality of the School Budget over the Past
Three Years

• Third consecutive year of ACTUAL reductions
  in the Superintendent and School Committees
  requested budgets, for a cumulative total of
  6.1 million dollars, or if the FY 2005 override
  fails, 9.4 million dollars.
• FY03 - ( 220,000)
• FY04 - ( 2,048,000) (2,592,000)
• FY05 - ( 1,228,090)
• FY05 - (4,499,512) IF OVERRIDE
  FAILS

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FY03 Reductions

• Custodian 33,000
• Nurse 55,000
• Furniture 20,000
• .2 FTE Learning Center 12,000
• Physical Education Equipment 15,000
• Curriculum and Instruction 65,000
• Audio/Visual Technology 20,000
• Grand Total 220,000

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FY04 Reductions before SC Approval

• Delayed funding Full Day Kindergarten
  800,000
• Didnt fill Director of Secondary Education
  100,000
• Didnt fund LHS Ops Manager/Scheduler
  55,000
• Didnt fund .5 Elementary Assistant Principal
  36,000
• Didnt fill Coordinator of Library Media
  75,000
• Didnt fill 4.0 FTE at elementary 200,000
• Reduced Electricity expenses 40,000
• Reduced Crossing guard expenses
  5,000
• Reorganized department head model 75,000
• LEA funded cost for .2 FTE 7,600

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• Reduced CO Administrators COLA by .5 4,000
• Reduced Administrators COLA by .5 10,000
• Reduced custodial overtime 100,000
• Increased rental and user fees 50,000
• Reduced tutor hours 50,000
• Reduced school-based initiatives 40,000
• Reduced nurse/secretarial substitute hours
  6,400
• Reduced aide staff 25,000
• Reduced secretarial staff
  30,000
• Reduced custodial staff 30,000

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• Reduced LHS building supplies 17,500
• Increased rental fees 55,000
• Reduced half of mentoring program 30,000
• Reorganized TBE/ESL Program 35,000
• Eliminated MS building repairs 30,000
• Eliminated MS library equipment 34,000
• Raised bus fees 47,500
• Reduced Elementary building maintenance 12,000
• Reduced professional development 48,000
• Total Reduced 2,048,000
  

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The Result of FY04 Failed Override

• Eliminated HS Resource Officer
  22,000
• Eliminated 3.0 H.S. Staff 165,000
  
• Eliminated 3.0 H.S. Enrollment Driven Staff
  150,000
• Eliminated H.S. Dean 75,000
• Eliminated 5.0 High School Class Size Staffing
  250,000
• Reduced Athletics Budget 20,000
• Reduced secretarial staff 30,000
• Reduced SPED Tuition 80,000
• Reduced 2.6 Custodial Staff 78,000
• Eliminated Curriculum and Instruction Initiative
  82,500
• Established Fee Based Instrumental Music
  100,000

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• Reduced Supplies, Printing, ONDS, Software
  50,000
• Increased User Fees
  48,500
• Reduced 2.7 FTE Classroom Teachers
  135,000
• Reduced health education staff by 1.0 FTE
  50,000
• Reorganized Chinese Bilingual program
  40,000
• Eliminated permanent substitutes
  134,000
• Reduced art, music and PE from 1 hour to 45
• minutes per week
  225,000
• Eliminated 3.0 M.S. Classroom teachers
  150,000
• Reduced building and instructional supplies
  80,000
• Reduced 1.5 FTE Elementary Assistant Principals
  105,000
• Reduced Elementary Building Maintenance
  48,000
• Eliminated Training for Maintenance And Tech.
  Staff 12,000

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• Eliminated Drama Specialist Position
  25,000
• Reduced funding for Science and SS
  20,000
• 25 funding of supplies for L.A.
  20,000
• Eliminated .6 FTE Nurse 30,000
• Eliminated MS 1.0 FTE SPED staff
  65,000
• Dont fund a 1.0 FTE Evaluation Team Leader
  65,000
• Reduced MS technology support
  50,000
• Reduced MS Maintenance and Instructional
  Supplies 58,000
• Eliminated MS Science Lab Equipment
  34,000
• Eliminated Safety-related repairs and
  maintenance 20,000
• Reduced ECE/Elementary SPED positions
  75,000
• Total 2,592,000

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Where Did That Leave Us?

• Significantly curtailed cleaning and maintenance
  of our facilities
• Fell behind in support of our technology program
• Seriously undermined our curriculum review and
  modernization
  process
• Indefinitely deferred implementation of full day
  kindergarten
• Limited resources available for textbooks and
  supplies
• Restricted our capacity for supervision and
  administration of education programs and staff
• Reduced our elementary art, music and physical
  education programs

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Major Factors Driving FY05 Budget Decisions

• Decrease in town revenue
• Reduction of state funding
• Elimination of some grants
• Increase in health care benefits
• Increased operating costs utilities,
  transportation
• Growing enrollment at the high school
• Reductions for the third consecutive year
  

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FY05 Budget Process -What did we hold sacred?

• Class size
• Programs
• Direct service to students
• Programs that were reduced in FY04

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DECEMBER FY05 Obligations

• Contractual Obligations 3,195,000
• New enrollment at LHS
  275,000
• Transportation for Fiske 200,000
• Unemployment Compensation 205,449
• Total
  3,875,449

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DECEMBER FY05 Budget Proposal

• FY04 Appropriated Budget -
  62,787,454
• School Committee directed
• 2.5 increase 1,569,686
• Total 64,357,140
• Required FY05 reduction of 2,065,357 and a
  240,406 increase in fees

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School Committee Recommended FY05 Budget

• FY 04 Appropriated 62,787,454
• FY 05 Recommended 66,757,468
• Less Benefits Reduction (400,000)
• Grand Total FY 05 Budget 66,357,468
• Increase 3,570,014
• Increase 5.7

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FY 05 Obligations

• Contractual Obligations
  2,599,993
• Step/level 930,000
• Benefits _at_ 11.2 944,993
• Vendor contracts 100,000
• Utilities 625,000
• New enrollment at LHS 275,000
• Transportation for Fiske 200,000
• Unemployment Compensation 205,449
• TOTAL 3,280,442

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School Committee FY 05 Recommended Budget
addresses these objectives at minimal levels

• Reasonable class size, work in literacy and
  numeracy for all students, and restoration of
  art, music and physical education for elementary
  students at FY03 levels
• Professional development around differentiated
  instructional strategies
• Support for ongoing initiatives that include the
  Mentoring Program, Curriculum Renewal, and
  Student Performance Assessment and Evaluation
• Focus on retention and recruitment of teaching
  staff and their professional development
• Efforts to improve curriculum coordination,
  articulation, and supervision
• Concentration on maintenance operations of
  aging facilities

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Actual Reductions

• In kind LEA contribution 14,400
• Reduce professional development 50,000
• Reduce textbooks 2,213
• Reduce technology facilitators 67,393
• Reduce library materials 14,000
• Eliminate librarian 55,972
• Reduce tutors 25,262
• Reduce software 20,688
• Reduce .5 attendance officer 13,277
• FL, Fine and Performing Arts, Educational
  Technology
• and Health teach a class 53,568
• Return trailers 40,000
• Reduce legal services 150,000
• Reduce elementary curriculum secretary 12,000
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Actual Reductions (continued)

• Reduce LHS curriculum secretaries
  34,887
• Reduce building supplies 27,000
• Reduce clerical substitutes 3,100
• Reduce nurse substitutes 2,000
• Reduce benefits to 15 increase 161,956
• ERI savings 171,374
• Benefit savings by replacement of 15 full time
  tutor
• positions with less than 20 hour positions
  129,000
• Contract out special education services
  55,000
• Reduce utilities 125,000
• Total Reductions 1,228,090
  

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At Risk List

• est.FTE
• Revise Curriculum Coordination Model 2.5
  140,764
• Restore 4.0 FTE for elementary art, music,
  p.e. 4.0 225,000
• Restore 3.0 FTEs elem, 3.0 FTEs MS 6.0 300,000
• Restore MS. Foreign Language 2.0 108,129
• Materials and supplies 284,660
• Support equitable student/teach ratio at
  L.H.S. 5.0 275,000
• Tutor budget 5.0 100,000
• Restore health education teacher at elem.
  level 1.0 50,000
• Fund METCO if State reduces budget 100,000
• Restore MS and Elementary Assistant
  Principals 2.0 142,215
• Restore building and grounds budget 50,000

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At Risk List (continued)

• Reduce instrumental fee by 50 1.0
  50,000
• Restore elementary curriculum specialists 2.0 103,
  800
• Restore Technology Integration Specialist 1.0
  44,000
• Restore partial technology facilitators 2.0
  70,000
• Restore partial library aide budget 4.0 100,000
• Restore partial pro. development budget
  50,000
• Restore secretaries 2.0 60,000
• Ensure portion of Debate transportation costs
  25,000
• Restore curriculum initiative funds 85,000
• Add fifth Dean at LHS or Guidance Counselor 1.0
  75,000
• Restore Director of Secondary Education 1.0 100,0
  00

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At Risk Items (continued)

• Restore Elementary Nurses to full time .5
  28,000
• Restore Elementary Drama Specialist .5 25,000
• Restore curriculum secretary 1.0 25,000
• Restore library aides 3.0 59,854
• Restore funds for Intramural sports 30,000
• Fund more tutors 5.0 100,000
• Restore instrumental music teacher 1.0 50,000
• Restore custodial staff 2.5 68,000

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At Risk List (continued)

• Restore portion of textbook account 75,000
• Restore maintenance account 50,000
• Ensure Mentor Training 10,000
• Ensure more funds for textbooks 150,000
• Fund JV Hockey 18,000
• Ensure the system custodian position 1.0
  44,000
• TOTAL 56 FTES 3,271,422

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Summary

• FY 04 Appropriated 62,787,454
• FY 05 Recommended 66,357,468
• Increase 3,570,014
• Increase 5.7
• Failed Override ( 3,271,422)
• New FY 05 63,086,046
• NET Increase 298,592
• NET Increase .5
• Balance of 698,592 of Curriculum Coordination
  model covered at 2/11/04 Summit net subsequent
  4/14/04 400,000 benefits reduction

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Summary Net of At Risk Items

• FY 04 Appropriated 62,787,454
• FY 05 63,086,046
• Increase 298,592
• Increase . 5

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• You, as a community collectively and
  collaboratively, need to determine what you want
  the Lexington Public Schools to look like over
  the next few years.

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In Conclusion

• Unfunded AT RISK Programs will dramatically
  and significantly impact the way the Lexington
  Public School System educates children.

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We ask the Town to demonstrate its support for
quality education by approving the Recommended FY
2005 Budget. Will you invest in our children?
We believe that is the wisest investment the
community can make.