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Eliminate grants to community non-profits Pine Knolls <br />($6,350) and Orange County Family Resources ($18,275) <br />Eliminate funding far field trips <br />Eliminate funding far SGC's <br />Reduce funding for differentiated pay stipends by 5d°!° <br />Eliminate subsidization of Child Nutrition Services <br />Do not add requested positions for growth in high schools <br />Reduce funding for athletics by 10 percent <br />The Grand Total <br />Cost Control Measures <br />- Not issuing contracts to many staff members <br />- Postponed contractual commitments <br />$ 24,625 <br />$ 63,944 <br />$ 33,2Q4 <br />$ 62,814 <br />$144,Q00 <br />$ 66,Q50 <br />$ 23,528 <br />$3,808,861 <br />Cost Savings <br />- Energy reductions in excess of B,OOQ,000 kilowatt hours <br />- Savings in custodial and food service contracts <br />- Reductions in costs following the Segal Group recommendations <br />School Supporters' Concerns <br />- Threat to maintenance of a quality educational program <br />- Desire to move forward, not be held harmless or worse, go backward <br />- Reductions in teacher assistants <br />- Reductions in after school programming at elementary and middle school levels <br />- Reductions in supplies, field trips, and travel <br />Observations <br />- Fully fund Tier I before moving to Tiers II and II I <br />- Proposed nine-cent increase is not a given <br />- Additional funding is needed to meet the Commissioners' target of 48.3°~ funding for <br />education <br />- The Manager's recommendation provides for only a 2 percent increase in our local, <br />current expense budget <br />- With low student growth, there is an opportunity to provide a greater increase in the <br />per-pupil appropriation <br />- Use equity reserve to fund common needs in bath districts {SROs, Middle College, <br />student exchange) <br />CAPITAL INVESTMENT PLAN <br />Long Range Capital Projects <br />Health and Safety $175,000 <br />- ADA Compliance <br />