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Education Funding in Orange County
<br />Figure 4. Annual General Fund Appropriations for Education
<br />Fiscal
<br />Year
<br />Ending
<br />Current
<br />Expense
<br />Appropriation
<br />Recurring
<br />Capital
<br />Debt
<br />Service
<br />Long
<br />Range
<br />Capital
<br />Capital
<br />Reserve
<br />Total
<br />Total
<br />General
<br />Fund
<br />Budget
<br />Education
<br />% of Total
<br />GF Budget
<br />1990
<br />$11,403,973
<br />$1,500,000
<br />$1,792,275
<br />$3,450,300
<br />$0
<br />$18,146,548
<br />$42,494,467
<br />42.70%
<br />1991
<br />$13,057,549
<br />$1,500,000
<br />$2,636,842
<br />$2,044,661
<br />$0
<br />$19,239,052
<br />$46,351,500
<br />41.51 %a
<br />1992
<br />$14,861,157
<br />$1,500,000
<br />$2,963,400
<br />$1,827,627
<br />$0
<br />$21,152,184
<br />$50,935,148
<br />41.53%
<br />1993
<br />$15,713,450
<br />$1,500,000
<br />$2,879,475
<br />$2,603,953
<br />$0
<br />$22,696,878
<br />$53,887,298
<br />42.12%
<br />1994
<br />$17,258,306
<br />$1,500,000
<br />$4,879,002
<br />$2,606,048
<br />$0
<br />$26,243,356
<br />$60,852,952
<br />43.13%
<br />1995
<br />$19,098,062
<br />$1,500,000
<br />$5,717,540
<br />$1,408,581
<br />$0
<br />$27,724,183
<br />$66,581,662
<br />41.64%
<br />1996
<br />$21,175,309
<br />$1,500,000
<br />$8,524,408
<br />$3,049,749
<br />$476,048
<br />$34,725,514
<br />$73,099,271
<br />47.50%
<br />1997
<br />$24,604,074
<br />$1,624,500
<br />$8,318,118
<br />$4,058,571
<br />$494,442
<br />$39,099,705
<br />$79,259,530
<br />49.33%
<br />1998
<br />$27,197,822
<br />$1,856,528
<br />$8,767,660
<br />$1,999,147
<br />$618,843
<br />$40,440,000
<br />$85,483,019
<br />47.31%
<br />1999
<br />$30,422,520
<br />$1,949,652
<br />$9,318,087
<br />$2,353,225
<br />$649,884
<br />$44,693,368
<br />$92,685,103
<br />48.22%
<br />2000
<br />$34,537,104
<br />$2,043,6751$8,968,3051$2,597,5471
<br />$224,8041$48,371,4351$100,251,1481
<br />48.25%
<br />In fiscal year 1999 -00, total funding for education increased by more than $3.6 million (8.23 percent).
<br />This is lower than the average of the past five (just over 12 percent) and ten (11.5 percent) years. Major
<br />factors influencing increases in the past years are:
<br />• Repayment of debt associated with three voter approved bond referenda and private
<br />placement funding for school facilities.
<br />• Increases in annual current expense funding each year.
<br />• Increases in recurring capital appropriations. (From $750,000 per school system in fiscal
<br />years 1990 through 1996 to a dedicated three cents on the property tax rate currently).
<br />• Creation of a capital reserve
<br />fund for School/Park
<br />projects.
<br />The chart to the right projects funding
<br />levels for the school systems if the Board
<br />of Commissioners elected to fund the
<br />schools at the historical rates. Should the
<br />historical percentage increases continue,
<br />appropriations for public schools would
<br />more than double over the next ten years.
<br />$160
<br />$140
<br />$120
<br />$100
<br />$90
<br />$60
<br />$40
<br />$20
<br />$0
<br />MWbre erDOUM
<br />WD1 3003 Zoos M 3005 M W 3008 M 3010
<br />+ 1999 -00 Average — — 5 Year Average • 10 Year Average +�
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