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Exceptional Children's Program: 1 teaching position; 3 TA positions; .5 program facilitator; $ 208,874 Exceptional Children's Program: classroom supplies and computer equipment $ 10,600 Transportation Department: 2 additional bus driver positions $ 62,470 Information Technology: 3 technology assistant positions to support high schools $ 114,000 Total of Expansion Requests $ 395,944 Grand Total of Continuation and Expansion Budget Requests $1,419,836 In the Board approved budget request to the Orange County Commissioners, we made a series of reductions to our local budget as an initial measure to help with what we knew would be a difficult budget season. These initial reductions aze listed below: Initial Local Budget Reductions One-time budget allocation for Literacy evaluation and support $ (70,000) Reduce cleaning or custodial service/staff ~ $ (38,000) Eliminate signing bonuses for hard-to-fill teaching assignments $ (25,000) Reduce utility budget due to impact of conservation measures $ (250,000) 2% Projected reduction in local salaries and benefits due to under-spending $ (800,000) Total of Initial Budget Reductions $(1,183,000) After accounting for the mandates, continuation items, expansion requests, and the initial reductions, we were left with a local budget shortfall of $236,836. The Board's request to the County Commissioners was for the same dollar allocation because our student enrollment projection was lower than last year. The County's budget did not fully fund this request and we decreased our local revenues to reflect this. Combining the local shortfall with the decreased revenues meant we needed to appropriate $430,142 in additional fund balance to balance our local budget. This is summarized below: Local Budget Shortfall after Initial Budget Reductions $236,836 Add: Decrease in Local Revenues (Based on County, Manager's recommendation) $193,306 Additional Fund Balance Appropriation to balance the Local Budget $430,142 Out of the $5.75 million in state reductions, the district was required to make a $3,394,300 discretionary reversion. Since, we had already made $2.5 million in discretionary reductions in previous years we continued to revert those and added additional items to make up the difference. In total, the 2011-12 discretionary reduction included 40.36 classroom teacher positions, 60 months of CTE employment, and $785,830 in teacher~assistants funding. The state budget provided 8.5 FTE / additional classroom teachers in grades 1-3. Interestingly, the state budget did not change class size maximums. We reverted these positions (8.5 FTE) to help meet the discretionary reversion increase at the state level. The district is able to meet the current class size maximums without these positions. Reverting these positions also eliminates local cost increases for supplements and teacher assistants and also helped us avoid adding classrooms to already crowded schools. The reverted TA funds were covered by an additional fund balance appropriation. The district accepted some of the state reductions and eliminated them from the budget. These included; Mentor Pay ($83,187), Classroom Materials ($188,000), and Textbooks ($617,916). Finally 2