Attachment B. Chapel Hill Carrboro City Schools Board of Education FY2018-19 Budget Request and CIP

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AGENDA ITEM # 2 ATTACHMENT B Chapel — Hill Carrboro City Schools 2018 -19 Operating Budget Message To date the General Assembly has not determined the 2018 -19 State budget that will be allocated to the respective school systems. The district has developed its operational plan using projections of the state mandates and continuation needs. Expansion budget requests have been deliberated upon and are also included. The following information provides the details of our budget for 2018 -19. Student Enrollment Levels, Special District Tax, and Other Revenue Chanizes We always begin our budget process considering our enrollment projections. State enrollment projections determine both state and local funding levels. We have now received the state projections and it is estimated that our enrollment will increase by 234 students next year. Assuming the county will fund this growth at the current per pupil, we would receive an additional $933,894 in our county appropriation next year. An additional $346,393 of revenue growth is also estimated from the inflationary increase in the special district tax. We are also anticipating an increase in our miscellaneous revenues of $175,000. Our estimated revenue increase for next year is $1,455,287. Mandated Cost Increases and Continuation of Current Services The Superintendent's recommended budget includes mandated cost increases and continuation expenses for medical insurance and retirement match, along with a placeholder for an anticipated state pay raise for teachers and other public school employees. We anticipate teachers receiving on average a 6.9% pay raise and all other employees receiving a $1,000 increase. Based on this increase all employees in the district will be paid at least the county's living wage rate. The district's budget request includes funding to provide the state mandated raise for locally paid teachers and all other locally paid employees, including the increase in the local supplement for state -paid personnel, classified employees, and administrators. At this time we have placed $2,345,731 in our request to fund these anticipated increases in the local portion of employees' salaries. Cost increases for the employer retirement match ($500,000) and health insurance payments ($211,500) for locally paid employees are also part of our request. Anticipated state salary mandates, retirement matches, and health insurance matches total $3,057,231. This number represents our continuation budget which is the amount of additional funding necessary to continue current operations. Recommended Expansion Requests We received over $3 million in budget requests from our program managers and schools. While these all represent legitimate identified needs, we recommend holding the line on the majority of the requests since our anticipated continuation expenses are significant. In addition, we are also seeking county support for the next phases of our capital improvement plan and we are seeking increased capital funding to maintain our existing inventory of school facilities. We therefore limited our requests to priorities that support the four categories identified in our strategic planning process, whole child, human capital, family and community engagement, and organizational structure.