Robert Logan’s Two Budget Reduction Scenarios – no BIG difference

Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2011 21:36:27 -0500
From: djsmith
Subject: Mr. Logan’s Two Budget Reduction Scenarios

 Thank you Mia and others  for posting the Two Budget Reduction Scenarios.  In case you didn’t know these two scenarios were posted on the Chatham County Schools Webpage on Friday morning for about 15 minutes.  And then they were mysteriously removed.   Makes you wonder if they were not intended for the public’s eye and someone goofed by posting them.

Interesting facts to note:
Scenario 1: Does not change (reconfigure) our K-8 schools. 
19 Teachers and 21.5 Teacher Assistants will be cut

Scenario 11: Reconfigure the K-8 schools into K-5 and 6-8 platform
18.8 Teachers and 22 Teacher Assistants will be cut

(According to the above almost the same number of teachers and teacher assistants will have to be cut whether the schools are reconfigured or not) 

Scenario 1:  Does not change (reconfigure) our K-8 schools.
The Budget is cut by $2,767,898

Scenario 11:   Reconfigure the K-8 schools into K-5 and 6-8 platform
The Budget is cut by $2,771,182

(Do the math, this is only a difference of $2,823.00 between the two plans..  In other words, to keep our school system as it is will cost less than $3000.00.  Surely someone’s salary at the Central Office can be cut to make up the difference or we can have a bake sale)

Questions that should be addressed with the Scenarios:
What Central office personnel will be cut?
Are the classified staff at the Central Office or in the schools?
Are the district wide instructional support personnel those at the Central office or are they personnel in the schools?
Scenario 11 calls for cutting Assistant Principals.  JSW, Bennett, Bonlee, Moncure (the K-8 schools under fire do not have Assistant Principals) How do you cut something you do not have?
Does Scenario 11 include the addition of an Assistant Principal for Bonlee becoming a Middle School?

Just something to think about.

DJ
 
Subject: Subject: Budget Reduction Scenarios
           
            Text of the page originally posted at
            http://www.chatham.k12.nc.us/central_office/finance/docs/Budget%20Advisory%20Committee%202.3.11.ppt
          
            but no longer included in the presentation (referenced by Ann Godwin in             #3496:
           
            Scenario I (No Reconfiguration)
            Scenario I is built with no changes in the current configuration of the
            district’s K-4; K-5;K-8; 6-8; 9-12 schools.
            60% Budget Reductions (Teachers, Teachers Assistants, Assistant
            Principals, Clerical and Custodial):
            6 classroom Teachers and 21.5 Teacher Assistants**
            ($944,930)
            13 teaching positions:
            (Art, Music, PE, Spanish, Band, CTE)
            ($715,624)
            Total: 19 Teachers and 21.5 Teacher Assistants
            Subtotal: ($ 1,660,554)
            40% Other Cuts: Central office personnel (classified staff, district
            wide instructional support personnel); athletic transportation;
            custodial services, and contract services.
            ($1,107,344)
            Total Reductions: $2,767,898,($461)
            Total Reductions needed: $2,768,359
           
            Scenarios II (Reconfiguration)
            Scenario II is built with a reconfiguration of the school system’s K-4;
            K-5; K-8; 6-8; 9-12 schools to a K-5; 6-8; 9-12 configuration.
            60% Budget Reductions (Teachers, Teacher Assistants, Assistant
            Principals, C…lerical and Custodial)
            9.5 classroom Teachers and 22 Teachers Assistants**
            ($ 1,151,892)
            9.3 teaching and administrative positions:
            (Spanish; Band; CTE; Art; Music; PE; Reading; Assist Principals)
            ($511,946)
            Total: 18.8 teachers and 22 Teacher Assistants
            Subtotal: ($1,663,838)
            40% Other cuts: Central office personnel (classified staff, district
            wide instructional support personnel); athletic transportation;
            custodial services; and contract services.
            ($1,107,344)
            Total Reductions: $2,771,182 (+2,823)
            Total Reductions needed: $2,768,359
           
            **The Department of Public Instruction proposed allotment decreases will lead to increased class size averages in grades K-3 by 1; grades 4-6 by 3; grades 7-8 by 4; grade 9 by 2; grades 10-12 by 1; teacher assistants in Kindergarten only; decreases in instructional support positions and reduced months of employment for CTE teachers and assistant principals.Totals 1,661,015 = 60% schools 1,107,344 = 40% central office