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The cuts made in the 2008/09 school year included:
- 68 District Office positions, including an Assistant Superintendent position
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across the board salary reduction of
- 1% for employees
- 2% for high level district office employees
- 5% for the School Board, Superintendent and School Board Attorney
Based on the feedback from employees, taxpayers, Budget Committee, and our community I am recommending the following cuts for 2009/10:
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Superintendent´s Recommendation for Budget Cuts in 2009/10: |
Savings |
| 1 |
Eliminate (50) District Office positions - Savings and number of positions are approximate. Plans are still being finalized. (In 2008/09 - 68 positions were eliminated) |
4,000,000 |
| 2 |
District share of savings from the Energy Challenge and other energy savings |
350,000 |
| 3 |
Parking lot lights out from 11:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m. |
64,962 |
| 4 |
Install programmable thermostats in portables |
85,633 |
| 5 |
Change Duette to a Contract Site School 09/10 FY |
118,000 |
| 6 |
Reduce or eliminate the Field Trips allocation for elementary & middle schools |
140,000 |
| 7 |
Establish a new pay scale and guidelines for employees returning to work from DROP |
400,000 |
| 8 |
Eliminate use of Pinnacle gradebook program at elementary schools |
15,576 |
| 9 |
Reduce by 50% special allocations to Magnet Schools (Project 0405) |
57,500 |
| 10 |
Reduce the funding for Challenge Day from $66,000 to $6,000 (Project 0610) |
60,000 |
| 11 |
Reduce by 10% the cost of extra curricular supplements such as sports, dance, music, academic, student group leaders, etc. (reduction in the number of supplements, not the amount per supplement) |
97,446 |
| 12 |
Eliminate allocation of 36 Reading Coaches (allocate 18 Reading Teachers) |
1,135,620 |
| 13 |
Reduce the purchase of Voyager instructional materials |
300,000 |
| 14 |
Lease the Parent Information Center (move employees to the Owens Annex at the School Support Center) |
83,000 |
| 15 |
Eliminate the Assistant Principal position at schools with less than 575 students |
900,000 |
| 16 |
Reduce one elective teacher at each high school (art and music programs cannot be eliminated) |
378,540 |
| 17 |
Reduce by 25% the Adult, Career, and Technical Performance Funding for Vocational Programs |
78,117 |
| 18 |
Discontinue Stanford testing for grade one |
100,000 |
| 19 |
Eliminate one custodian from each high school (Through attrition) |
207,438 |
| 20 |
Decrease by 50% use of subs for inservice (Inservice during the school day) |
210,197 |
| 21 |
Implement an application fee for new hires (a fee of $50 times 300 new hires for 09/10) |
15,000 |
| 22 |
Reduce by 50% the cost of out-of-county travel for employees (professional development / meetings) |
170,613 |
| 23 |
Generate revenue through cell phone towers (focus on sites that are vacant and future school sites) |
162,000 |
| 24 |
Eliminate (through attrition) 1.0 basic aide position from each elementary school. Each school would be given an allocation of dollars that would be used to bring in substitute aides for 180 days. |
371,484 |
| 25 |
Create an alternative 12 month calendar that will provide employees with an option for 4 days off with-out pay |
100,000 |
| 26 |
Use the flexibility provided by the legislature to use Instructional materials funds to pay for teachers |
1,000,000 |
| 27 |
Savings from diesel fuel prices being reduced from last year to this year |
500,000 |
| 28 |
Eliminate one specials teacher at each elementary school, replace with a teacher assistant (art and music programs cannot be eliminated) |
1,249,182 |
| 29 |
Increase print volume of the Print Shop to lower the cost of printing district wide |
250,000 |
| 30 |
Savings from not having to budget for the Kaplan Contract for the Core Curriculum |
1,500,000 |
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Superintendent´s Recommendation for Budget Cuts for 2009-10 |
14,100,308 |
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