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41 <br /> Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools <br /> Lincoln Center, Merritt Mill Road <br /> Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27516-2881 <br /> The Board of Education Telephone: 919/967-8211 Ext. 226 <br /> FAX: (919) 933-4550 <br /> Nell G. Pederson Mark Royster,Chair <br /> Superintendent <br /> TO: �C'a County Commissioners <br /> FROM: Royster, Chair <br /> Board of Education <br /> RE: 1997-98 Budget Request for Additional Students <br /> DATE: June 23, 1997 <br /> We are very appreciative of the additional two cents added in the budget <br /> resolution of the special district tax that would increase funds to the CHCCS <br /> budget by $820,518. If you have not heard, on Friday, the House and Senate <br /> approved the Excellence in Schools Act that mandates the average teacher <br /> salary increase to 6.5 percent. Therefore, the timing of the additional budget <br /> allocation could not have been better. It will now allow us to fund some of our <br /> most critical needs beyond the state mandated salary increases and the funds <br /> to charter schools. <br /> There still continues to be concern about the increased enrollment <br /> projected by DPI in May of 89 students who will be entering public school from <br /> home and/or private schools. We understand from DPI that we cannot obtain <br /> certification of those students until July 1. <br /> Since this date, July 1, is after the approval date of the budget, we <br /> respectfully ask that you set up a reserve in your budget of $1,889 per student, <br /> or$168,121, for the 89 public school students anticipated by DPI's May report. <br /> These funds would be held in your contingency and will only be allocated on a <br /> per pupil basis up to and including 89 students, upon certification by DPI in July. <br /> Charter schools are new to all of us and, certainly, the funding process <br /> has been quite frustrating. We hope that you will approve the reserve funds, <br /> $168,121, so that we will not have to cut into the funds allocated to our students. <br /> Thank you for the continued commitment, shown by your actions, to meet <br /> the educational needs of the public school students of our school district. <br /> c: John Link <br /> Neil Pedersen <br />