Scarborough School Department

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Scarborough School Department

• Budget Review
• Board of Education Finance Committee
• January 28 and 29, 2008

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Overview

• Process to date
• Cost Center budget development
• Superintendent Review and Adjustments
• Changes for FY09
• New Chart of Accounts
• Shift in Cost Center designations creates large
  percentage increases/decreases

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Overview

• Overall Summary
• FY09 Request 36.4M
• FY08 Budget 33.5M
• Increase 2.9M or 8.7
• Factors Influencing Increase
• Enrollment
• Programming
• Fixed Costs

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Overview

• Review Process
• Cost Center Administrators present Needs/Requests
  
• Finance Committee has opportunity for Q A
• Finance Committee makes final recommendation to
  full Board.
• Board of Education makes recommendation to Town
  Council.
• Town Council determines bottom line, pending
  legislative action on budget approval process.

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Scarborough High School

• 06-07 Enrollment 921
• Current Enrollment 1040
• Projected Enrollment 1069
• Focus Areas
• Maintaining Class Size
• Providing appropriate Academic Offerings

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Scarborough High School

• Enrollment-driven Requests
• 1.0 FTE Math/Science Teacher
• 50,000
• 1.0 FTE English Language Arts Teacher
• 50,000

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Scarborough High School

• Program-driven Requests
• 1.0 FTE Ed. Tech. for Technology Support
• 25,000

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Scarborough High School

• Unmet Needs
• 1.0 FTE Social Studies
• 1.0 FTE Math/Science
• Tech. Integrator
• Study Center Support
• 1 on 1 Technology

• Impact
• Class sizes continue to increase
• Teachers work on their own to integrate
  technology
• Support for students will remain limited
• Access to technology will remain limited

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Scarborough Middle School

• Pressing Needs
• Class Size Reduction
• All Grade 6 Homeroom Classrooms currently have 25
  26 students.
• All Grade 7 and 8 Homeroom Classrooms currently
  have 23-24 students.
• Student Literacy
• 29 students Did not Meet and 124 students
  Partially Met the state standards on MEA
  Reading tests.

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Scarborough Middle School

• Enrollment-driven Requests
• 1.0 FTE Classroom Teacher
• To reduce class size for incoming Grade 6
  homerooms
• 50,000

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Scarborough Middle School

• Program-driven Requests
• 0.5 FTE Ed Tech Study Center
• Currently a full-time position is partially
  funded through Title V. Funds will no longer be
  available through Title V.
• 12,500
• Reallocation of Tech Integrator to Literacy
  Specialist

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Scarborough Middle School

• Impact
• Teachers will not receive support needed for
  curriculum/technology
• Class sizes will remain at 231 or larger

• Unmet Needs
• Curriculum Specialist
• Classroom Teachers Grade 7 and 8

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Student Activities

• Largest Athletic/Co-curricular program in Maine
• 17 Varsity Sports
• 61 Teams
• 32 Clubs
• 1738 Student Positions
• Focus Areas
• Athletic Training Services
• Relief for Booster Funding adoption of MS
  Football

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Student Activities

• Enrollment (participation)-driven Requests
• Increase Athletic Training salary and benefits
• 25,000
• Increase stipend for Middle School Liaison
• 3,000

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Student Activities

• Program-driven Requests
• Increase funding for rental of Ice and Pool
  facilities
• 60,000
• Provide funding for Middle School Football
  program
• 7,000
• Increase funding for reconditioning football
  equipment
• 5,000

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Student Activities

• Unmet Needs
• Middle School Athletic Administration and
  Supervision
• Athletic Training Services

• Impact
• Programs continue to grow, placing strain on
  administrative services at all levels.
• It may become difficult to retain employees,
  reducing the efficiency of training services.

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Facilities

• Budget Format
• Lines assigned to building budgets for FY09
• Needs
• Operating Budget vs. Capital Improvement
• Efficiencies
• Purchasing Agreements
• High School
• Cooperation with Town Departments

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Facilities

• New Requests
• Contracted Painting Services (district-wide)
• 30,000
• Daytime Maintenance Coverage (K-2 schools)
• 7,500

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Curriculum

• Cost Center Overview
• New Programming
• New Adoptions
• District-wide resource for new initiatives and
  existing programs

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Curriculum

• Staff Development
• Method Group Facilitators
• 30,000
• District-wide In-service
• 28,300
• Middle School Math Curriculum Work
• 25,000

• Assessment
• Testing and Scoring Supplies
• 20,200
• NWEA Licensing
• 25,000
• Just 5 Clicks data warehousing
• 26,500

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Curriculum

• High School Textbook Requests
• 13,000
• Instructional web-based subscriptions
• 23,200

• Programming Requests
• Middle School Math Curriculum
• 45,000
• Summer Reading Academy
• 35,000
• Summer Math Academy
• 35,000

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Curriculum

• Unmet Needs
• K-5 Math Curriculum
• 6-12 Literacy Interventions
• 2 Tech/Curriculum Integrators
• Middle School Math Coach

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Wentworth Intermediate School

• Current Enrollment 766
• Projected Enrollment 762
• Focus Areas
• Class Size and Instructional Programming
• Professional Development
• Non-fiction Reading Titles

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Wentworth Intermediate School

• Program-driven Requests
• Additional Staff Development Programming
• Data-driven, Professional Learning Community
  Model
• 1500
• 3/5 FTE Technology Integrator
• 30,000
• 1.0 FTE Guidance Secretary
• 31,300

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Wentworth Intermediate School

• Impact
• Lack of direct teacher contact time
• Unmet demand for technology integration
• Ability to meet needs of students remains limited

• Unmet Needs
• 1.0 FTE Math Support Teacher
• 2/5 FTE Tech Integrator
• Instructional Space

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Blue Point School

• Current Enrollment 280
• Projected Enrollment 292
• Focus Areas
• Reducing Class Size
• Addressing Behavioral Needs
• Maintaining Academic Support

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Blue Point School

• Enrollment-driven Requests
• 1.0 FTE Kindergarten Teacher
• To reduce student/teacher ratios in Kindergarten
  classrooms (currently 191).
• 50,000

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Blue Point School

• Program-driven Requests
• World and U.S. Maps/Globes
• Outfitting every classroom with pull-down maps
  and/or globes
• 900.00

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Blue Point School

• Unmet Needs
• .33 FTE Intervention Strategist
• .33 FTE Guidance Counselor
• Space

• Impact
• Increase in disruptive behaviors will continue
• 1 Counselor will remain responsible for 750 K-2
  students
• Continued lack of instructional and storage space

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Eight Corners School

• Current Enrollment 252
• Projected Enrollment 250
• Focus Areas
• Decreasing Class size
• Addressing student behavioral needs
• Developing appropriate instructional space

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Eight Corners School

• Enrollment-driven Requests
• 1.0 FTE First Grade Teacher
• To reduce class size from 201 to 161 in first
  grade classrooms
• 50,000

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Eight Corners School

• Impact
• Increase in disruptive behaviors will continue
• Increased studentteacher ratio
• 1 Counselor will remain responsible for 750 K-2
  students
• StudentTeacher ratios will remain at 211 or
  larger

• Unmet Needs
• .33 FTE Intervention Strategist
• .5 FTE Literacy Ed. Tech
• .33 FTE Guidance Counselor
• Classroom Teacher 2nd Grade

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Pleasant Hill School

• Current Enrollment 185
• Projected Enrollment 206
• Focus Areas
• Class Size
• Student Behavioral Needs

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Pleasant Hill School

• Enrollment-driven Requests
• 1.0 FTE Classroom Teacher
• Level to be determined by enrollment projections
• 50,000

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Pleasant Hill School

• Program-driven Requests
• Student Behavioral needs will be addressed
  through the Special Education request of 1.0 FTE
  K-2 Social Worker

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Pleasant Hill School

• Impact
• Increase in disruptive behaviors will continue
• 1 Counselor will remain responsible for 750 K-2
  students

• Unmet Needs
• .33 FTE Intervention Strategist
• .33 FTE Guidance Counselor

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Special Services

• Cost Center Overview
• English as a Second Language (ESL)
• 60 students, 19 languages
• Section 504
• 70 students
• Gifted and Talented (GATES)
• 120 students
• Special Education
• 415 students

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Special Services

• Current Needs
• 1.0 FTE Resource Room Teacher Wentworth School
• 0.5 FTE Speech and Language Therapist Wentworth
• 1.0 FTE Social Worker K-2 Schools

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Special Services

• Current Needs
• Existing positions funded from outside sources
• 0.5 FTE Assistant Director
• From State Agency Client (SAC) Grant
• 0.5 FTE Administrative Assistant
• From SAC Grant
• 1.0 FTE Psychological Services Provider
• From Local Entitlement

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Special Services

• Unmet Needs
• 0.55 FTE Physical Therapist
• 0.5 Language Facilitator
• 1.0 FTE ESL Teacher
• Summer Evaluations (50,000)

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Food Service

• Cost Center Overview
• 3 Production Kitchens
• SHS, SMS, Wentworth
• 3 Satellite Kitchens
• Blue Point, Pleasant Hill, Eight Corners
• 30 Employees
• Providing 185 breakfasts and 1300 lunches daily,
  as well as A la carte for both meals. A la carte
  revenue at the High School is approximately
  3,000 per day.

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Food Service

• Impact Areas
• New CBA added 4 holidays plus vacation time for
  employees
• Fuel costs are now being charged on each delivery

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Food Service

• Unmet Needs
• 4th Oven at Wentworth
• Dishwashing machine at Wentworth