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expansit— budget. For the past two years, the Board requested all revenue increases in the county appropriation to comply with the commissioners' goal to equalize funding between the t,.,o districts. The state has projected our enrollment for 1991 -92 at 6300 students ( after the out -of- county, tuition paying students are subtracted). This is the number on which the budget is based. Compared to an enrollment of 6,014 students last year, this represents a 4.8% increase in the number of students receiving educational services. The local budget has been prepared in accordance with directions from the County Manager to cooperate in his efforts to present the County Commissioners with a common format for both school districts. It begins with a continuation budget which provides for a 5% salary increase and inflationary price increase for non - personnel items except where noted in the budget. Health insurance rates are up 46% (employer's share), and this increase is reflected in the continuation budget. The second component of the budget, the additional continuation, includes additional expenses which will be incurred by operating the present program. A major portion of the additional continuation budget is designated for the six middle school teachers who are required to continue implementation of the middle school program. A sizable amount is also needed for increased operatz tg costs for the added facilities at Phillips and Chapel Hill High School and for additional staff, equipment and supplies to accommodate the larger student population. The final component of the local current expense budget is the expansion budget. Included in the expansion budget are those items being requested to initiate new programs or to enhance or expand existing ones. A list of items totalling more than a million dollars was submitted by the staff for expansion needs. All were defensible items; however, being sensitive to the present economic situation, that list was pared to $355,879. This year's expansion budget is the lowest in recent years. The reclassification of the office support personnel is the largest expenditure in the expansion budget. It is critical that we correct inequities in the existing schedule and adjust the schedule so that persons are fairly paid for the work they perform. The expansion budget also includes funds for a pre - school program and science program enhancements, both goals of the Board to improve student learning. In addition, the cost for an extended year program for selected exceptional students is included. This program is needed to continue services to these students during the summer months when school is not in session. Finally, the numbers of exceptional children and non - English speaking students continue to grow. In addition, we're lasing the resources from Durham Technical Institute which we had received for the high school English as a Second Language students. Serving these students appropriately requires additional resources. The expansion budget includes teachers to meet both of these needs. The overall continuation budget will increase by 6.32 percent, which translates into only a 1.49 percent per -pupil increase. The per pupil allocation from the County, however, will need to be increased by 9.95 percent, from $1,175.00 to $1,291.91. The County appropriation is up, however, 15.22 percent due to the slowly expanding tax base, the freeze on the district tax rate, and the increase in student population. Items included in the additional continuation budget will require an additional $794,530. Generating this revenue from the county appropriation will require an overall increase of 26.47 percent, or an increase in the county per -pupil allocation from $1,175 to $1,418, a 20.68 percent increase. The continuation and additional continuation budgets require $15,100,336 in total revenues, an increase of 12.22 percent over the 1990 -91 budget. An additional $355,879 is necessary in order to fund the expansion budget. Historically, the expansion budget was funded, in large part, through increases in the district tax. Two years