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Budget Concerns
Budget Concerns
Budget Concerns
2011 Fund balance $5.2 million 2011/2012 $2.6 million used to balance
current budget
carryover plus $1.4 million deficit if we do nothing different. So we start 2012 $4,000,000.00 in the hole.
$4,000,000.00 - $2.6 million in fund
balance leaves us
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How do we find $4.0 million and avoid an Emergency Financial Manager? Typical solution thus far have been to just cut. So where will we be cutting?
increasing.
No Sports or Clubs? No bussing? No media centers? These and many other remaining cuts we
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Think about this: We could build a new needed football field $600,000.00 Give every Sophomore an Ipad to keep if they graduate
$200,000.00
Buy Instruments $100,000.00 Invest in Art program $100,000.00 Continue Investment in Making all classrooms 21st
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planning and decision-making which reverses the working process of traditional budgeting. In traditional incremental budgeting, departmental managers justify only variances versus past years, based on the assumption that the "baseline" is automatically approved. By contrast, in zero-based budgeting, every line item of the budget must be approved, rather than only changes.[1]During the review process, no reference is made to the previous level of expenditure. Zero4/13/12 based budgeting requires the budget
This is where we start.Below you will see nothing. We need to start fresh and redesign public education.
Blank Sheet..
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How do we get there? Decide what's important/what you want to look like?
49,000,000.00 to spend I want(example)
1.) High School football is a must. 2.) 1% raise for my high quality teachers. 3.) I want a line item supported technology plan. 4.) I want to put $250,000 into savings. 5.) How many bands and teams do we need ? Quality vs. Quanity. 5.) I do not feel we need specific class sizes.
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