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Assistant Principals -31.00 months ( $199,361) <br />Career Technical Education(CTE) 24 1. 00 months ( $235,340) <br />Teacher Assistants ($3,038,639) <br />Total of 10% Reduction ($6,183,992) <br />Recently, Governor Perdue released her budget. Although the Governor's budget does not <br />recommend any reductions in teacher and teacher assistant positions, there are still <br />significant reductions in the allocations to local school districts. Under the Governor's <br />budget, CHCCS would lose $1,640,700. In addition, we estimated that an additional <br />$285,000 of expenses currently covered by the state would be passed on to local districts. <br />The reductions are broken out as follows: <br />Central Office (10 %) <br />$88,625 <br />Non - Instructional Support (15 %) <br />478,962 <br />School Building Administration (7.5 %) <br />183,405 <br />Staff Development (100 %) <br />189,780 <br />Transportation (10 %) <br />126,312 <br />Classroom Materials and Equipment (5 %) <br />37,777 <br />Student Accountability (100 %) <br />266,716 <br />Textbooks (34 %) <br />269,123 <br />TOTAL <br />$1,640,700 <br />Additional estimated costs passed on from State to LEAs: <br />Vehicle insurance for yellow buses 30,500 <br />Tort claims insurance 45,000 <br />Workers' Compensation: state -paid staff 210,000 <br />TOTAL $285,500 <br />Republican leadership has set spending targets for the budget that are considerably lower <br />than those in Governor Perdue's budget. The spending target for K -12 and Higher Education <br />is approximately a $1.5 billion reduction from current spending levels, twice as much as <br />Governor Perdue's budget recommendation. In addition, on the leadership's list of potential <br />reductions is the consolidation or elimination of Smart Start and More at Four. The district <br />receives approximately $450,000 from More at Four that subsidizes the cost of pre -K <br />students. <br />At the School Board's Annual Planning Conference, the Board indicated a willingness to use <br />approximately 40% of available fund balance to counteract the loss of state and federal <br />funding. As indicated earlier, the Superintendent's recommended budget would appropriate <br />$445,379 more to balance the local budget request. Using the scenario that we might allocate <br />40 percent of the "rainy day fund," we would have almost $2 million available to compensate <br />for the loss of state funds. This is approximately the same amount as the reductions in the <br />Governor's budget. <br />1 -4 <br />