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CHAPEL HILL - CARRBORO CITY SCHOOLS <br />Lincoln Center, Merritt Mill Road <br />Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27516 <br />Telephone: (919) 967 -8211 <br />Neil G. Pedersen <br />Superintendent <br />TO. Board of Education <br />FROM: Neil G. Pedersen. <br />Superintendent f` <br />Atttachment lb <br />Ann Hart, Assistant Superintendent <br />For Instructional Services <br />Steve Scroggs, Interim Assistant Superintendent <br />For Support Services <br />RE: Background Materials for the 2000 -01 Budget <br />DATE: February 10, 2000 <br />The School Board Planning Conference provides the Board of Education with its <br />first look at budget requests for the 2000 -01 year. Most of the day on Friday will be spent <br />on budget related issues. The morning will begin with information about compensation and <br />benefits needs. We will then move into very brief summaries by our schools and divisions <br />of the written requests that are in your notebooks. After lunch, the Board will have time to <br />deliberate and discuss the requests that have been presented as well as other <br />recommendations that they might have. <br />Our budget process began last November when we asked School Governance <br />Committees and Divisions to prepare requests. The school requests in your notebooks have <br />been approved by the respective SGCs. Below, I will review for the Board what I consider <br />to be priority areas for this year's budget. <br />Growth <br />Last year's budget was based on a projected enrollment of 8903 students. As of the <br />end of the fourth month of school, there are 8982 students enrolled in CHCCS and we are <br />reimbursing charter schools for 118 students — a total of 9100 students for the 1999 -2000 <br />year. It is apparent that we were under - budgeted for this year. <br />We have not yet received a student projection figure from the state's budget office, <br />which is the projection that we must incorporate in our budget. The projection that we <br />generated internally indicates that we will have 9287 students enrolled in CHHS and, for <br />budget purposes, we are using the same charter school enrollment figure as in last year's <br />budget —143. This means that our budget is based on 9456 students, an increase of 527 <br />students over this year's budgeted figure. This is a substantial amount'of growth and <br />comes on the heels of steady annual increases since the mid- 1980's. This degree of growth <br />continues to have a major impact on our budget. <br />The Board can expect a request for budget increases in the following areas: <br />• Preliminary staffing and planning for Smith Middle School <br />• Additional staff for East Chapel Hill High School <br />