Financial Summary

2011 General Session

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 Close a $313 Million Structural Imbalance

 Fund $60 Million Enrollment Growth

 Fund $39 Million Medicaid Growth

 Legislative Strategy for FY2012

 Adjusted Revenue Estimates: $263 million
 Agency Reallocations: $ 80 million
 Other Sources of Revenue: $ 19 million
 Remaining Structural Imbalance: $ 50 million

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 Revenues Expenditures

General
Health & Governme
General
Education Human nt, 21%
Fund, 17%
Fund, 23% Services, Higher
Dedicated
22% Education,
Credits, 8%
11%

Transporta
Federal Transpirati tion, 9%
Public
Funds, 24% on Funds,
Education, Law
Other, 24% 4% Capital
28% Enforceme
Facilities, Debt
1% nt, 5%
Service, 3%

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 State funding for Public Education increased by 2.1%
or $50.3 million
 Exceeds Governor’s Budget by $29.8 million
 Enrollment growth of 14,754 with $30.6 million new
funding; short $26.6million to fully fund with
new money
 Real value of WPU decreased by $23 per WPU
FY2011 FY2012 Net Impact
WPU Base Value 2,577 2,816 239
Per WPU Value of Flexible Allocation 292 30 -262
Restated Value of WPU 2,869 2,846 -23

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2011 General Session

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 MSP Transfers to Offset Forecast Shortfall in Basic
Program

 Increase to Educator Salary Adjustment

 Appropriation of Education Jobs Funding

 Reduction to Flexible Allocation to Offset Education

Jobs Funding

 Additional Section 146 Reporting

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2011 General Session

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 WPU bifurcated
 $2816 all programs except Spec Ed and CTE Add-On Programs
 $2577 Spec Ed and CTE Add-On Programs

 Basic Tax Rate estimated at 0.001628

 State Guarantees for Board and Voted Leeways

increase to $27.17 per WPU per 0.0001

 Enrollment growth of 2.6% funded

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 Expansion of Section 105.5 – Flexibility in Use of
Program Funds

 ADM Disallowance for Students Attending UCAT

 Creation of Two Block Grant Programs:

 Enhancement for At-Risk Students Program
 Enhancement for Accelerated Students Program

 Consolidation of Special Educators Additional Days

into Special Education – State Programs

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 Changes to K-3 Reading Improvement Program
 Up to $7.5 million for an RFP for computer-assisted instructional
learning and assessments program

 Early Intervention Program

 Potential Replacement of OEK concept
 Up to $2.5 million for an RFP for adaptive learning technology
and assessments

 Pilot Assessment
 Online delivery of U-PASS to large school districts

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 Program Elimination
 PEJEP

 Performance-Based Compensation Pilot

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 Program Reductions

 Flexible Allocation by $194.6 million

 Adult Education by $0.3 million

 Interventions for Student Success BG by $8.2 million

 USOE by $0.7 million

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 Program Continuance
 Administrative Costs for
Districts and Charters Schools
 To and From School – Pupil
Transportation
 Transportation Levy
Guarantee
 Youth in Custody
 Matching Funds for School
Nurses
 Beverly Taylor Sorenson Arts
Learning
 Regional Service Centers
 Teacher Supply and Materials
 Professional Staff
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 Program Increases

 Basic School Program 11.0%

 Utah Common Core $2.0 million

 Charter School Enrollment Growth $8.7 million

 Teacher Salary Supplement $1.7 million

 6th Grade Math Assessment $0.7 million

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 Allows and encourages local school boards to enter
into an interlocal agreement to create a regional service
center to provide education related services
 Requires a regional service center to be formed by an
interlocal agreement to receive state funding
 Requires the State Board of Education to make rules
regarding regional service centers
 Provides that a charter school may enter into a
contract with an eligible regional service center to
provide education related services to the charter school.

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 The Bill allows that a district or charter may sell
advertisement space on the exterior of a school bus.
 requires that a district or charter that chooses to sell
advertising shall adopt guidelines
 lists items to be contained in those guidelines
 lists DOT rules (not on the back of a bus)
 outlines who is responsible for payment
 requires that revenue generated go into the general fund of the
district or charter.

 The Bill requires the Department of Transportation to

make and enforce rules pursuant to advertisements on
school busses.

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REPEALS CREATES/CONTINUES
 Recreation levy (11-2-7)  Board Local Levy (53A-17a-164)
 Capital Outlay levy (53A-16-107)  Capital Local Levy (53A-16-113)
 Voted Capital Outlay levy (53A-16-110)
 Voted Local Levy (53A-17a-133)
 Transportation levy (53A-17a-127)
 Board leeway (53A-17a-134)  Basic Rate (53A-17a-135)
 Federal Impact Aid (53A-17a-143)  Judgment Recovery (59-2-1328)
 Ten Percent of Basic (53A-17a-145)  Debt Service (11-14-310)
 Reading Improvement (53A-17a-151)
 Tort Liability levy (63G-7-704)
 Judgment and Warrants (53A-16-111)

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 New limits:
 0.001800 Board Local Levy
 0.003000 Capital Local Levy
 0.002500 Grandfather clause

 Voted and Board Leeway State Guarantee Impacts

 Program Flexibility

 TNT Implications

 Charter School Local Replacement Impacts

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 Creates the Charter School Revolving Account
within the Uniform School Fund
 Purposes
 Capital
 Start-up
 Technical Changes
 Restricted Account
 All assets transferred
 Separated from Capital Revolving Loan Fund

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 Modifies the Open and Public Meetings Act:
 Establishes a pilot program for charter schools to conduct
electronic meetings:
 establishes time limits on the electronic meeting;
 prohibits closed meetings;
 provides a method for public notice and participation;
 requires new notice to be given each time a topic to be considered
at an electronic meeting has not been listed as an agenda item; a
 Report to the Public Utilities and Technology Interim Committee
by October 1, 2011 as to the effectiveness of conducting business
via electronic meetings

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 For purposes of a property tax exemption, a charter
school is considered to be a school district
 For property tax exemption, the property must be
owned by the charter school
 Parallel language in S.B. 125 Property Tax Exemption
Amendments
 Retroactive to January 1, 2008

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