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Chapel Hill- Carrboro City Schools Explanations of Local Fund Budget Increases_ Growth (Continuation Budget) Opening, recurring costs for Mary Scroggs Elementary $918,428 Mary Scroggs Elementary School will open its doors in August, 1999. We are particularly excited about this school's opening because it incorporates an instructional model that has been more than a year in the making. The school will operate within the normal per -pupil cost of our other elementary schools, but staff will be allocated and used differently. For example, a number of support positions have been eliminated in order to provide more teachers. This will enable us to reduce class size to 20 students in grades K- 5. Technology will receive added emphasis, teachers will stay with the same students for two years, before and after school care will be integrated into the instructional program, and the curriculum has been selected carefully after thoroughly investigating products and programs that have been evaluated in the literature. Although classroom teacher positions can be reallocated from other schools whose enrollments will decline, most positions that must be replicated in new schools are funded with local dollars. The total local cost for opening Mary Scroggs Elementary School is $918,428. See Appendix C of our budget for a breakdown of all positions and non - personnel costs. Opening, recurring costs for ECHHS Expansion $416,650 East Chapel Hill High School is undergoing a major expansion as we add classrooms to increase its capacity by 500 students, a performing arts wing with a 500 - student auditorium, an auxiliary gymnasium, several new athletic fields, and a set of tennis courts. This will increase the school's operating budget by $416,650, which includes utilities, additional custodians, and instructional personnel to support the increased enrollment. See Appendix C of our budget for a breakdown of all positions and non - personnel costs. Increased maintenance costs due to plant expansion $170,100 As we add to our school plant, it is imperative that we add to the maintenance department's staff to support the new square footage and grounds. Typically, in past years, we have made some compromises in this area. This year we are recommending that we add one HVAC mechanic, one electrical mechanic, and one staff member to the grounds crew. The cost of these three positions and the necessary support materials is $170,100. Local teacher supplement funds for new state paid positions $67,500 Each year we must budget for the local supplement portion of new state -paid teaching positions generated by the projected increase in the number of students. The cost of these supplements for fifteen (15) new positions this year is $67,500. Non - personnel funds for growth in staff and students $45,900 The State Department of Public Instruction's budget office has projected that the district's enrollment will increase from 8,468 to 8,784, 316 students more than the projection upon which the 1998 -99 budget was based. A total of $45,900 has been budgeted for those local expenses that are allocated to schools on a per -pupil or per - student basis. Total for Growth Related Expenses $196189578