Agenda Attachment B - Chapel Hill - Carrboro City Schools Board of Education FY2019-20 Operating Budget Request and CIP

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10 CHCCS Superintendent’s Budget Request 2019-2020 $200,000 to support the CHCCS district work surrounding equity and culturally relevant curriculum, specifically literacy in the school year 2019-2020. 4. Expanded summer programming for elementary school and exceptional children students in need of extra academic supports at $300,000. As is evidenced on the graphic below we are seeing data that shows a significant drop in students’ literacy skill comprehension over the summer months. Note the drops between EOY and BOY results (84 to 71 – summer of 2017 and 82 to 65 - summer of 2018). We want to offer an expanded summer program that will focus on instructional effort as well as targeted enrichment areas to help with our literacy gaps we see in our data. This should enable our students to start the next school year ready to learn and on or close to grade level on day one. 5. In addition to the programming requests above our district sees a critical need for immediate work related to School Safety. This request will help us implement phase I at $750,000 of this work by immediately getting the following items in our schools or upgraded to working and current equipment. This will be a 3 year project containing the following items: • Emergency digital radio systems to ensure all can be notified and communicate during any school emergency. We currently have radio equipment that is antiquated. Schools and resource officers cannot communicate effectively with first responders. • Intercom systems (Interior and Exterior) upgraded or repaired to ensure clear communication is available in our schools for emergencies and announcements. • ADA compliance upgraded and implementations to ensure we meet all ADA compliance concerns specifically related to emergency response aspects of this work. (Stairwell evacuations are an example). • Continued work to enhance our door access control systems and identification systems to ensure our schools remain safe and secure for students and staff. The total of these Expansion Request items is $1,932,000. Through our work with strategic plan alignment with a focus on providing some flexibility in resource allocation in relation to that plan we feel we can further maximize the districts resources in more targeted efforts. This will allow for each school to meet their unique needs and align with their school improvement plans. However, to jump start that work, ensure we can support our student’s needs and continue our improvements for the safety of our schools we respectively ask the county for funding related to the above expansion items.