MSAD #11

2012-2013 PROPOSED BUDGET

MSAD #11 District Goals

The budget was developed to ensure implementation of the district goals and to prepare students post-secondary, career, and civic life.

MSAD #11 District Goals

✤ Academic Achievement

✤ Educational Data Specialist - needed to analyze individual student data and to provide additional staff training

✤ New Evaluation Tools for teachers, administrators, superintendent, and support staff positions

✤ Adequate funding for Professional Development

MSAD #11 District Goals

✤ Educational Coherence

✤ Continued support for growth model assessments - NWEA testing in the fall, winter, and spring

✤ Class reconfiguration at the middle school - two person teams in grade 6 and looping in grades 7 & 8 (this reconfiguration could also fall under Academic Achievement)

✤ Additional early release day for staff and curriculum development work

MSAD #11 District Goals

✤ More Diverse Learning Opportunities

✤ Enhanced summer school program for struggling students

✤ Reassignment of middle school alternative ed personnel in effort to better support student achievement/needs

✤ Adequate funding for curriculum materials

MSAD #11 District Goals

✤ Safe and Educational Supportive Climate

✤ A fully funded Capital Improvement Plan

✤ Positive Behavior Intervention Support implementation and training designed to help teach students specific appropriate behaviors

✤ Reinstitution of the Middle School Advisor/Advisee Program as one tool to enhance connections between staff and students

MSAD #11 District Goals

✤ Community Connections

✤ Community Conversation in October - sponsored by the MSAD #11 School Board

✤ Aspiration Fair at the elementary level - designed to expose students to various career opportunities within our communities

✤ Proposed high school senior internship program

2012-2013 Proposed Budget

The budget was also constructed to address an ongoing decline in student enrollment and to minimize the impact to taxpayers

2012-2013 Proposed Budget

✤ Enrollment Decline

✤ May 2011 - March 2012 - 56 student decrease

✤ Projected Enrollment for 2012-2013 - anticipated decline of another 32 students (unknown until kindergarten registration is complete in August)

✤ 4.2% six year decline

2012-2013 Proposed Budget

✤ Decline in enrollment results in a subsequent decline in state subsidy

✤ The further the district is from the recommended staffing levels identified in the state subsidy formula, the greater loss in state subsidy

✤ Not addressing the decline in enrollment results in a number of classrooms falling below the School Board class size policy and a loss of state subsidy

2012-2013 Proposed Budget

✤ Proposed budget reductions from 2011-2012 to 2012-2013:

✤ 5 elementary teaching positions

✤ 1 middle school special education teaching position

✤ 1 high school learning lab teaching position

✤ 1 elementary educational technician I position

2012-2013 Proposed Budget

✤ Additional changes in the proposed budget:

✤ Increase in annual bus lease

✤ Salary and benefit increases

✤ Electricity decrease

✤ Increase in fuel oil

✤ Restoration of money for library books and professional development

2012-2013 Proposed Budget

✤ Additional changes in the proposed budget:

✤ Decrease in number of seats budgeted for CATC (based on present enrollment and projected decline in enrollment)

✤ Full funding of the annual Capital Improvement Plan

✤ Additional duties of Educational Data Specialist added to T.C. Hamlin Principal’s position

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2012-2013 Proposed Budget

Proposed Budget = $21,402,745.46

Comparison to the 2011-2012 budget:

A decrease of: ($506,888.59) or (2.31%)

Per Pupil Cost Comparison

Effect on Property Owners

Gardiner (107,718.35)

(3.30%)

Pittston ( 5,296.29) (0.30%)

Randolph 22,636.00 2.91%

West Gardiner ( 7,231.72) (0.31%)

Effect of Property Owners

$100,000 of Local Valuation

Gardiner $ (29.89)Pittston $ ( 2.92)Randolph $ 26.76West Gardiner $ ( 2.57)

2012-2013 Proposed Budget

✤ Next Step:

✤ Budget Meeting - Tuesday, May 29, 2012 @ 6 p.m. @ Gardiner Area High School Gymnasium

✤ Budget Referendum - Tuesday, June 12, 2012 @ local polling sites