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Attachment 3a9 • ��°tPEL HILL- o�o CITY SCHOOLS TO: Valerie Foushee, Chair, Orange County Board of Commissioners Frank Clifton, Orange County Manager FROM: Neil G. Pedersen Superintendent RE: Information Requested for September 23,2Q 10 Joint Meeting DATE: September 1 b, 2010 � First,the CHCCS Board of Education wishes to express its gratitude to the Orange • County Board of Commissioners and the Manager for working in a spirit of cooperation to help us navigate through another very chalienging budget year. In addition, the state legislature did not cut as much from school district budgets as was initially anticipated, and federal dollars continued to comgensate for state reductions. As a result, our district did not have to make as extensive reciuctions as we initially feared. Still,we did make reductions in our local and state budgets and employees received no pay increases for the second year in a row. This mernorandum provides the information that was requested of the school districts for the September 23Td joint meeting. It includes information on the 2010-11 budget,the outlook for 2011-12,the Capital Investment Plan,and our 10�'Day Membership. Local Budget . The attached sheet (Attachment No. 1) summarizes the adjustments that we made in our local budget to address nevv expenses and to reduce expenditures to he�p to pay for them. Our biggest new expense was $b62,043 for state mandated increases in employee heal#h insurance and the state retirement match. In addition,we budgeted $136,429 for several continuing programs that will require an increase in expenditures as indicated on Attachrnent No. ]. At the meeting where the School Board adopted its local budget,the Board also allocated$70,000 from fund baiance to support an evaluation of the district's literacy interventions by an outside consultant. This was in response to ongoing concerns � about a small number of students who progress through our system without developing strong literacy skills. These students are at great risk of not graduating from high school; • therefore,the Board believed this one-time expenditure of funds was warranted.