Middleborough Public Schools

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Middleborough Public Schools

• School Committee
• Public Hearing
• FY09 Budget
• April 17, 2008

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Strategic Plan Goals

• 1. Communication To continue to enhance
  communications with students, staff, families,
  community, and government.

• 2. Teaching and Learning To maintain high
  expectations for all students and staff.

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Strategic Plan Goals

• 3. Resources To pursue, secure, and integrate
  resources to benefit our schools.

• 4. Facilities To ensure facilities meet program
  and population needs.

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What is at stake?

• Without sufficient funding, the ability to
  address
• Program needs at Middleborough High School
• No Child Left Behind (NCLB) adequate yearly
  progress (AYP) status
• Improving student achievement on the
  Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System
  (MCAS)
• K - 12 Class Size

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What is at stake?

• The ability to
• Provide sufficient supplies and materials
• Provide necessary professional development
• Update the PK-5 Literacy Program
• Provide adequate individual attention for our
  needy/at-risk students

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Public HearingSummary

• School Department Data
• Review of FY09 budget development
• Review FY09 budget alternatives
• a) Full Recovery Budget
• b) Level Service Budget
• c) Year 1 Limited Recovery Budget
• Public Hearing FY09 Budget Recommendation

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Recent Past School Committee Budget Proposals

• 1,395,600 of initiatives aimed to improve
  student achievement were eliminated from our FY06
  (942,000) and FY07 (453,600) budget requests.

• All due to the School Committees willingness to
  work closely with Town boards and departments in
  a collaborative manner to face our budget
  challenges together.

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Where We Are Heading With Decreased Appropriations

• Class Size Increases - PreK grade 8
• Support Services Decreasing - PreK grade 8
• PreK grade 8 -Inability to sustain current
  programs
• PreK grade 8 - Inability to improve programs
• High school
• Academic insufficiencies
• Accreditation concerns
• Facility needs
• Increased fees
• Reduction and loss of course offerings
• Reduction and loss of fine arts and athletic
  programs

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Result of the FY08 School Budget Appropriation
Major Reduction to Services and Programs

• District-Wide
• Reduced 20 Stipend Positions
• Reduced custodial services
• Reduced Administrative Positions by 4 Assistant
  Superintendent Director of Technology Director
  of Guidance 6-12 Asst. Housemaster
• Reduced the Athletic Budget
• Reduced Services of the Technology Department
• Reduced Nurse Staffing by one

• High School
• Foreign Language (0.5)
• Home Economics (0.5)
• Mathematics Teacher (1)
• Science Teacher (0.5)
• Special Education Teacher (1)
• Educational Support Personnel Alternative
  Program (2)
• Reduced a number of stipend positions (Safety
  Assistants)
• Eliminated the Supply Coordinator position (1)

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Result of the FY08 School Budget Appropriation
Major Reduction to Services and Programs

• Middle School
• English Teacher (1)
• Mathematics Teacher (1)
• Special Education Teacher (1)
• Reading Teacher (1)
• Science Teacher (1)
• Social Studies Teacher (1)
• Grade 6 Position (1)

• Elementary K - 5
• Grades K-5 Teachers (6)
• Mathematics Specialist 3-5 (1)
• Library Media Specialist (1)
• Physical Education Teacher (0.5)
• Educational Support Personnel (6)
• Eliminated Supply Coordinator positions

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Result of the FY08 School Budget Appropriation
Major Reduction to Services and Programs

• A user fee of 175 was implemented to participate
  in High School athletics. An activity fee was
  implemented to participate in the Burkland and
  Nichols Intramural programs. The following teams
  and programs were eliminated the Nichols Middle
  School basketball (girls and boys), baseball and
  softball, and cheerleading teams and the High
  School freshman football, freshman basketball,
  freshman baseball and freshman softball teams

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PK Grade 8Enrollment Class Size
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Operational Budget Appropriations History
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Middleborough Public Schools

• Five Year Budget History

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Middleborough Public SchoolsNegotiated Salary
Percentage Increases10 Year History2000-2009
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Chapter 70 State Aid FY93 FY09 Received By
Middleborough
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Middleborough Public Schools

• Per Pupil Expenditures

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Per Pupil Expenditures2005 and 2006
Includes in FY06 Extraordinary Maintenance of
2,639,631 Roof, HVAC, Windows, Paving, Gym
Floor
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FY07 Preliminary Expenditures Per Pupil by
Function, All Funds - Summary
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Per Pupil Expenditures2005, 2006 2007
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School Versus Total Expenditures
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General Fund Expenditures as a Percent of the
Total
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FY09 Budget Development
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FY09 Budget Development
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FY09 School Committee Full Recovery Budget
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Full Recovery Budget Personnel
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Full Recovery Budget Personnel
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FY09 Level Service Budget
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Level Service Budget

• A Level Service Budget Forecast is the estimated
  cost required to deliver the same level of
  services for the next fiscal year (FY 09) as we
  had in the current (FY 08) fiscal year, including
  all contractual increases economic factors that
  affect the cost of these level services.
• A Level Service Budget will only continue the
  problems we are experiencing this fiscal year as
  a result of the reductions mentioned previously.
  Some would describe a Level Service Budget as a
  Survival or Maintenance Budget.

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FY09 Budget Development
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School Committee Year 1 Limited Recovery FY09
School Department Budget Proposal
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Proposed Year 1 Limited Recovery FY09 School
Department Budget
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A Year 1 Limited Recovery FY09 School Department
Budget will

• Maintain current course offerings and class sizes
• Meet legally mandated requirements for services
  to students in Special Education
• Meet increased costs of utilities and other
  non-discretionary cost increases
• Provide for three (3) Grade 7/8 Middle School
  Teachers one (1) Elementary School Psychologist
  and one (1) Out-of District Facilitator/Behavior
  Specialist (Pre K-12)
• Provide resources to maintain reduced Athletic
  Program
• Restore funding for necessary/basic materials and
  supplies

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A Year 1 Limited Recovery FY09 School Department
Budget will NOT

• Provide opportunities to improve and update
  curriculum materials
• Provide for all professional development needs of
  our staff
• Reduce class sizes that increased due to the cuts
  in positions as a result of the FY08 Operational
  Budget appropriation
• Provide resources necessary to address MCAS and
  AYP concerns
• Restore any programs
• Restore freshman and middle school sports

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Public Hearing FY09 Budget Recommendation

• Recommendation
• Adopt the Year 1 Limited Recovery FY09 School
  Department Budget in the amount of
• 25,657,094