31.7 Million of Budget Cuts to Our Schools in the Last Five Years

2012-13 School Year - Budget Cuts Totaling 6.3 million

• Cut School Days
• Closed Mt. Pleasant Elementary School
• Closed King Elementary School
• Reconfigured 6th Grade by moving it to the middle school level
• Employee contract concessions
• Used additinoal reserve funds

2011-12 School Year—Budget Cuts Totaling $7.1 million

• Cut 10 school days
• Cut 5 non-school days
• Employee contract concessions of about $2.6 million, froze employee COLA and experience increment increases in addition to reduced benefits increase
• Reduced Supply Budgets for Buildings/Departments by 19.5% from 2010-11 levels for a total 44% cut in three years
• Eliminated 3.0 teaching FTE due to declining enrollment
• Cut 7.08 Classified FTE positions including custodians, courier, campus supervisor, instructional assistants, and clerical staff
• Used $600,000 of reserve funds (ending fund balance)
   

• Cut five school days
• Eliminated 1.5 teaching FTE
• Withheld the Elementary Instructional Assistant ReserveReduced Supply Budgets for Buildings/Departments by 10% from 2009-10 levels for a total 25% cut in two years.
• Agreed to employee group COLA concessions equal to about $1.5 million  
• Used $400,000 of reserve funds (Ending Fund Balance)

• Closed Park Place Elementary School
• Reduced the HS Athletic Budget by 25%
• Reduced the MS Athletic/Activity budget by 30%
• Eliminated Academic Support positions equal to 5 licensed FTE
• Reduced Curriculum Support Specialists by 1.3 FTE.
• Froze building & department Supply Allocations at 85% of 2008-09 level
• Cut all Elementary PE Teachers (4.7 FTE)
• Reduced Elementary Music teachers by 1.5 FTE
• Reduced Elementary Counselors by 3.2 FTE
• Cut 46 teaching positions
• Cut 1.75 administrative positions
• Cut 35 Classified positions including custodians, instructional assistants, and clerical staff
• Reduced MS counselor FTE by .5
• Froze Employee COLA and Insurance increases of about $2.0 million
• Cut $50,000 from Maintenance Budget
• Used $390,000 of reserve funds (Ending Fund Balance)
  

• Cut two Student Support Specialists
• Reduced building/department supply budgets by 12%
• Withheld four hours of Clerical Allocation
• Postponed purchase of math textbooks budgeted at $331,000
• Cut 5 days from school year
• Offset $100,000 of the Maintenance Budget with CET funds
• Used $450,000 of reserve funds (Ending Fund Balance)