Roanoke County Public Schools

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Roanoke County Public Schools

• Budget Overview
• for 2007-08
• January 25, 2007

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Roanoke County Schools

• 17th largest school division in Virginia
• 30 schools (1 regional)
• 1,227 teachers
• 2,277 total employees
• Population of 88,200
• 17 of them are students

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School Budget is made up of

• Operating Fund
• Nutrition Fund
• Grants Fund
• Textbook Fund
• Bus Fund
• Laptop Insurance Fund
• Capital Fund
• Alternative Education Fund
• Debt Fund

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Budget Teams

• Several groups of people working on various
  portions of the total school budget.

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Senior Staff Budget Team

• Managers from each departmental area of the
  school system.

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Teachers Salary Team

• 2 School Board Members
• 7 Teachers
• Personnel Staff
• Finance Staff
• County Finance Officer

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Classified Salary Team

• 2 School Board members
• Transportation
• Maintenance
• Secretarial
• School Nutrition
• Instructional Assistant
• Personnel Staff
• Finance Staff

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Administrative Salary Team

• 2 School Board members
• Elementary principal
• Middle school principal
• High school principal
• Personnel staff
• Finance staff

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Superintendents Budget Team

• All 5 Board Members
• Superintendent
• Assistant Superintendents
• Directors
• RCEA President
• County Finance Officer

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Important Dates

• January 25 Public Hearing
• Jan 27Joint retreat with Board of Supervisors
• Mar 1 Budget Summit (Information)
• March 6 Budget Summit (Decision making)
• March 13 Joint work session with BOS
• March 15 Work session
• March 20 School Board adopts budget
• April 1 School budget to County
• May 1 County adoption of School budget

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Where do we get our funding?
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Average Daily Membership
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Enrollment Growth the trend is up.and
down.but mostly up!
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How do we spend it?

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Per pupil spending

• 8,843 estimated for FY06-07
• 8 increase over last year

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Salary vs. Class Size how do we compare
(FY04-05 VEA data)?

• Average Class Size
  Salary Ranking
• Salem 47,848 103
• National Average 47,808 -----
• Roanoke County 45,957 71
• State Average 45,377 -----
• Roanoke City 44,303 36
• Botetourt 43,955 108
• Franklin County 40,867 106
• Montgomery County 38,928 43
• Bedford 38,074 100

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Past Compensation Increases

• Salary Increase
• 06-07 4.5 teachers
• 4.0 others
• 05-06 4.0
• 04-05 3.5
• 03-04 2.0 average
• 02-03 2.5 average

• Benefits Increase
• 06-07 4.6
• 05-06 1.5
• 04-05 3.2
• 03-04 0.2
• 02-03 1.6
• Tentative 07-08 VRS increase is 843,000.

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Cost of 1 Raises

• Teachers 674,000
• Administration 84,000
• Classified 162,000
• Total 920,000

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School System Priorities

• Maintain and continue progress on Six Year Plan
• Focus on competitive employee salaries
• Address new initiatives with creative redirection
  of funds
• Lobby General Assembly for full funding of SOQ
  and teacher salary increases

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Likely to see in the 07-08 budget

• Stabilizing sales tax collections
• Staffing and salaries
• Higher enrollment more state aid teachers
• Small class sizes
• VRS rate increase
• Employee medical premium increase
• Rise in utility rates/demand charges
• Program revisions in special education
• Laptop initiative year 5 funding stream
• Capital funding for future

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Governors Proposed Budget

• Updates SOQ costs
• Funds 1.75 teacher raises for year (3 as of Dec
  1)
• Increases VRS, life insurance, and retiree health
  credit rates by 1.31 (cost of .9M)
• Net proposed increase 2.9M new state revenues
• Subject to modification by General Assembly

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Taxpayer Value

• 100 of our schools fully accredited
• Good schools attract good businesses.
• Good schools attract more students.
• Good schools increase property values.
• Economic development more commercial dollars
  available for county school needs.

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How can you help?

• Contact your legislators and ask them to..
• Fully fund the state share of public education,
• Fund teacher salary increases (as of July 1),
• Fund school capital needs.

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Legislator Contacts

• Senator Edwards district21_at_sov.state.va.us
• Senator Bell district22_at_sov.state.va.us
• Delegate Fralin delfralin_at_house.state.va.us
• Delegate Griffith delmgriffith_at_house.state.va.us
• Delegate Ware deloware_at_house.state.va.us
• Also see www.rcs.k12.va.us for contact
  information.

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Yet Another Challenge