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| Palo
Alto Weekly Online Edition |
Publication
Date: Friday, May 02, 2003
Complete
draft list of
Budget Adjustments
to be made in the 2003-04
budget
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Description |
Certificated FTEs* |
Classified FTEs* |
Total Amount |
| 1 |
The GATE revenue from the State is estimated
to be reduced by $10,938. Budgeted expenditures will be reduced
by the same amount. |
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$10,938 |
| 2 |
The SIP revenue from the State is estimated
to be reduced by $77,018. Budgeted expenditures will be reduced
by the same amount. |
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$77,018 |
| 3 |
The PAR/BTSA revenue from the State
is estimated to be reduced by $41,516. Budgeted expenditures
will be reduced by the same amount. |
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$41,516 |
| 4 |
The EIA revenue from the State is estimated
to be reduced by $14,601. Budgeted expenditures will be reduced
by the same amount. |
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$14,601 |
| 5 |
The Miller-Unruh revenue from the State
is estimated to be reduced by $12,957. Budgeted expenditures
will be reduced by the same amount. |
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$12,957 |
| 6 |
The State Instructional Materials revenue
from the State is estimated to be reduced by $74,487. Budgeted
expenditures will be reduced by the same amount. |
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$74,487 |
| 7 |
The School Libraries Materials revenue
from the State is estimated to be reduced by $6,534. Budgeted
expenditures will be reduced by the same amount. |
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$6,534 |
| 8 |
The Instructional Technology (AB 1339)
revenue from the State is estimated to be reduced by $8,129.
Budgeted expenditures will be reduced by the same amount. |
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$8,129 |
| 9 |
The School Safety revenue from the State
is estimated to be reduced by $17,545. Budgeted expenditures
will be reduced by the same amount. |
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$17,545 |
| 10 |
The Tobacco Use Prevention revenue from
the State is estimated to be reduced by $1,966. Budgeted expenditures
will be reduced by the same amount. |
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$1,966 |
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Description |
Certificated
FTEs*
|
Classified
FTEs*
|
Total
Amount
|
| 11 |
The Tenth Grade Counseling revenue from
the State is estimated to be reduced by $2,554. Budgeted expenditures
will be reduced by the same amount. |
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$2,554 |
| 12 |
Reduce the travel and conference budget
for all departments by 50%. |
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$67,500 |
| 13 |
Increase the requirements for sites/schools
to obtain substitutes and use overtime and capture and save
approximately 1/6 of this budget. |
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$80,000 |
| 14 |
Reduce the use of cell phones in the
district. |
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$4,000 |
| 15 |
Charge Building for Excellence for the
direct costs incurred by the Routine Maintenance staff. |
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$75,000 |
| 16 |
Take advantage of energy management
opportunities to reduce utilities expenditures by 7%. |
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$158,000 |
| 17 |
Reduce the Accounting Department budget
by $50,000. |
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$50,000 |
| 18 |
Reduce Superintendent's annual contingency
budget by $10,000. |
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$10,000 |
| 19 |
Reduce Board of Education budget by
$7,500. |
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$7,500 |
| 20 |
Reduce the Information Technology budget
by a total of $75,000. |
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$75,000 |
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Description |
Certificated
FTEs*
|
Classified
FTEs*
|
Total
Amount
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| 21 |
Reduce the Student Support Services
budget by $35,000. |
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$35,000 |
| 22 |
Delete an overtime allocation in the
Print and Mail Shop. |
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$30,000 |
| 23 |
Reduce the elementary per student school
allocation from $128/student to $100/student. |
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$125,692 |
| 24 |
Reduce the middle school per student
school allocation from $84/student to $80/student. |
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$9,060 |
| 25 |
Reduce the high school per student school
allocation from $101/student to $95/student. |
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$19,674 |
| 26 |
Reduce the pool of dollars to fund the
elementary school special needs allocation at the elementary
schools from $300,000 to $250,000. |
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$50,000 |
| 27 |
Reduce the number of district landscape
positions by 2.0 FTE. These have been held vacant. |
|
2.00 |
$96,828 |
| 28 |
Delete the $25,000 of the $250,000 Staff
Development budget spent on meeting support. |
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$25,000 |
| 29 |
Delete the budget for sabbatical leaves
for 2003-04. |
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$70,768 |
| 30 |
Delete the 53 lead teacher stipends
of $1,196/teacher. |
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$63,388 |
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Description |
Certificated
FTEs*
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Classified
FTEs*
|
Total
Amount
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| 31 |
Replace a one coordinator position in
Education Services with a TOSA. Also, replace a vacant director
position in Education Services with a coordinator and leave
the coordinator position vacant. |
1.00 |
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$171,722 |
| 32 |
Delete the 1.0 FTE allocation for Middle
School deans. |
1.00 |
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$71,100 |
| 33 |
Delete the 0.5 FTE Assistant Business
Manager position, currently managing renovation, mitigations
and moves at Terman Middle School, effective October 31, 2003. |
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0.33 |
$50,500 |
| 34 |
Delete the Landscape Supervisor position
and have the Manager of Maintenance and Operations supervise
the landscape staff. |
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1.00 |
$103,000 |
| 35 |
Reduce the number of classified staff
in Human Resources by 1.0 FTE. This position is currently unfilled. |
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1.00 |
$56,033 |
| 36 |
Reduce the budgeted expenditures for
the Assessment Program by $59,000. |
0.20 |
0.40 |
$59,000 |
| 37 |
Delete the contract to provide webmaster
services and perform the activities in-house. |
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$15,000 |
| 38 |
Replace the Digital Publishing (WP)
supervisor with a non-supervisory position. |
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$12,000 |
| 39 |
Reduce the secondary literacy resource
teacher position from 1.0 FTE to 0.5 FTE. |
0.50 |
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$36,000 |
| 40 |
Reduce the General Fund support for
the technology TOSA position from 1.0 FTE to 0.6 FTE. Fund
the remaining 0.4 FTE with one-time AB 1339 funds. |
0.40 |
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$29,000 |
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Description |
Certificated
FTEs*
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Classified
FTEs*
|
Total
Amount
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| 41 |
Fund a 0.6 FTE Mathematics TOSA position
with Noyce funding rather than the General Fund. |
0.60 |
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$43,000 |
| 42 |
Delete the 0.7 FTE elementary literacy
TOSA position funded by the General Fund. This activity will
be supported by an existing 0.2 FTE General Fund position augmented
by a 0.2 FTE federally funded position. |
0.70 |
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$50,000 |
| 43 |
Delete the 0.53 FTE General Fund science
TOSA position. (The other 0.47 FTE of this position is currently
funded by the expiring BASEE grant.) There will be a 0.5 science
TOSA position multi-funded by categorical programs. |
0.53 |
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$37,683 |
| 44 |
Reduce the allocation for contracted
counseling and behavioral support services at the secondary
schools from $220,000 to $110,000. Some of these services will
be performed by district staff. |
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$110,000 |
| 45 |
Delete the over-formula custodial FTE
at Gunn High School for a full year. (Staff has already been
transferred to a vacant position.) Paly was not over formula. |
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1.00 |
$36,311 |
| 46 |
Move support staff, including clerical
and custodial staff, along with enrollment to the third middle
school. Therefore, reduce the allocation for growth in support
staff by $266,437. |
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$266,437 |
| 47 |
Reduce General Fund support to high
school athletics by 50%, or $10,000 at each site. |
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$20,000 |
| 48 |
Reduce support to middle school athletics
by 50%, or $7,500 at each site. |
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$22,500 |
| 49 |
Reduce the calendar and compensation
for all administrators by two days. |
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$72,000 |
| 50 |
It now appears likely that the state
will delete the funding for staff development buy-back days.
If this funding is deleted, there will be a corresponding reduction
in teacher calendar and compensation. Here, the assumption
is that two days will be deleted. If all three days are deleted,
the savings will be proportionately greater. |
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$572,000 |
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Description |
Certificated
FTEs*
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Classified
FTEs*
|
Total
Amount
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| 51 |
Reduce the total number of Middle School
Instructional Supervisor positions from current year 4.0 FTE
to 3.2 FTE. |
0.80 |
|
$57,000 |
| 52 |
Reduce
the High School "below the
line" allocations by 1.40 FTEs at each of the two schools.
The reductions are 0.8 FTE technology support, 0.2 FTE senior
project, 0.2 FTE WASC and 0.2 FTE AVID coordination. (The coordination
duties will be funded through a stipend.) |
2.80 |
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$196,680 |
| 53 |
Reduce
the Middle School "below
the line" allocations by a total of 1.4 FTEs from current
year. The reduction is 0.6 FTE technology support, 0.3 FTE
all-city music, and 0.5 FTE AVID coordination. (The coordination
duties will be funded by a stipend.) |
1.40 |
|
$95,940 |
| 54 |
Staff middle school counseling positions
at 400:1 rather than 360:1. |
0.61 |
|
$44,943 |
| 55 |
Staff high school counseling positions
at 400:1 rather than 360:1. |
0.89 |
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$64,674 |
| 56 |
Reduce the allocation for classified
staff at each high school by 1.5 FTE. |
|
3.00 |
$129,294 |
| 57 |
Phase out the warehouse. For 2003-04,
delete a 0.88 FTE position and for 2004-05, delete another
1.0 FTE. Use one-time money to fund the 1.0 FTE position in
2003-04. |
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1.88 |
$108,600 |
| 58 |
The state has reduced the transfer to
Routine Maintenance from 3% of the General Fund to 3% of the
smaller Unrestricted General Fund. This calculation has cut
the General Fund obligation by $700,000. At this point, it
is intended that the General Fund will contribute an additional
$290,000. It is hoped that the final state budget will not
require the district to use these dollars to support the General
Fund. At this time, no maintenance positions will be reduced. |
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-$290,000 |
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TOTAL |
11.42 |
10.61 |
$3,561,071 |
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*FTEs are shown for items in which the FTE reduction
is known. |
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Editor's
note:
This is part of the final installment in a four-part series on how the
school budget crisis is affecting various segments of the community.
As the biggest fiscal fiasco to hit education rocks schools across the
state, the Palo Alto Unified School District and the surrounding community
battle a state property-tax grab and formulate massive reductions to
the district's 2003-2004 budget.
At a study session April 29, the district will reveal its plans to reduce
the budget by more than $4 million for the 2003-2004 to address anticipated
state cuts and a shortfall in revenue.
In the meantime, it is fighting to hold onto more than $23.1 million
in property tax funding that Gov. Gray Davis threatens to take away.
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