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SUPERINTENDENT'S BUDGET 1990 -1991 What follows in this document is the Schools Boards recommended budget for current expense and capital outlay expenditures of the Orange County School System for the 1990 -1991 budget year. Also included are budget proposals for State, Federal, and Child Nutrition funds. As in prior years, this budget request was developed through a process which provided opportunities for input at all levels. As can be expected, the requests exceeded the amounts recommended in this budget package by a wide margin. In fact we received current expense expansion requests which totaled nearly $1,950,000. Excluding additional continuation items, only $363,131 remains in our expansion request and another $104,000 is listed in our "equity funding" request. This amounts to only 24% of all requests initially received. Capital outlay fund requests were received in a total amount of $2,314,533. That amount was also severely cut with only 42% ($984,166) remaining in this recommended budget. We have tried to insure that this budget request takes into careful account the board approved goals and objectives.., You will note that we are scheduled to receive several new positions from the state, provided the legislature funds this year's installment of the Basic Education Program(BEP). Last year, they only funded a part of the scheduled BEP and that may be true again this year from all reports we are receiving about state revenue shortfall. With all of these state BEP efforts to improve instructional services, we need to begin to concentrate local funding on our system -wide support structure. Many of the new positions in our local request are in support areas,, which allow the instructional process in the classroom to proceed in a more efficient manner. Increases are sorely needed in custodial, maintenance and clerical service areas of the classified employee ranks. Significant dollars have been requested for these and other support services to strengthen the overall system. We were asked to work toward a continuation budget request increase of five to six percent. This has proven to be impossible with an expected salary increase of six percent and a reduced amount of fund balance appropriated. During the budget process last year, we were instructed by the County to increase our planned fund balance appropriation by an additional $150,000. We were informed that the County would cover the recurring expenditures which resulted in future year. We were told that we would not have to continue appropriating this additional $150,000. That results in true continuation budget which requires an 11% increase in County funding. Add to that our additional continuation and expansion requests of $492,031 and County funding on a per child basis comes to $1,254.82 up from $1,057 last year which is an increase of 18.7 %. We have also