Chatham Chatlist Highlights

Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 20:11:07 -0500 (GMT-05:00)
From: Mia Munn
Subject: School budget cuts for 2010-11

The school system needs to find $2,624,604 in budget cuts/savings for the 2010-11 school year. The board tentatively selected the scenario below, but may tweak it some at the meeting next week.

Scenario C
Central Office Administrators – 1         80,445
High School Band Directors – 3 months of employment (1 each school)     15,530
Curriculum Coaches -9 – 11 to 10 months        47,419
Instructional Services Division Facilitators -11 – 12 to 11 months        66,027
Career Technical Education positions paid from State Regular ADM – 3    154,781
Middle School Spanish – 4.5 positions        230,351
Academically Intellectually Gifted – 1 position        55,574
Overtime Reduction 25%    50,000
Testing Coordinators – 3 positions        109,634
Teacher Assistants – 20         571,780
Media Assistants – 7        212,222
Clerical/Custodians reduction – 39 months of employment        138,423
Central Office Clerical – 1         45,650
Employee Dental    316,577
New Teacher Signing Bonus     25,974
School Instructional Allotments (Supplies & Materials)     265,378
School-based Rewards     14,291
Instructional Field Trips     38,360
Local Staff Development     108,094
Supplies and Materials – Central Office     78,094
Grand Total     2,624,604

(sorry I couldn’t make this look like a nice table)

Other cuts (considered but not made)
Local Supplements
HIgh School Athletic Directors – 3 months of employment (1 each school)
Curriculum Coaches – 5
Instructional Services Facilitators – 4
Instructional Technology Facilitators – 3
Career Technical Education positions paid from State Regular ADM – 5
Teacher Assistants – 13
Teacher Assistants – 10
Teacher Assistants – reduction in days of employment

More info
http://www.chatham.k12.nc.us/board/meetings/2009-2010/03_01_10_boemtg/Agenda%20Item-2010-2011%20Budget%20Presentation.pdf
Table with 5 scenarios is on page 7

Slides
http://www.chatham.k12.nc.us/board/meetings/2009-2010/03_01_10_boemtg/budget_presentation/Budget%20Presentation%202010_second_compressed.pdf

For those of you with comments on the budget, it’s just as easy to email the board as it is to respond here on the chatlist. Here are the school board members email addresses:
Deb McManus (chair) uncdeb@earthlink.net
Kathie Russell (vice-chair) krussell@chatham.k12.nc.us
Flint O’Brien flint@flintobrien.com
David Hamm dhamm@chatham.k12.nc.us
Gary Leonard gleonard@chatham.k12.nc.us

Please be involved.

Mia Munn