Agenda 04-23-2019 Attachment B - Chapel Hill - Carrboro City Schools Board of Education FY2019-20 Operating Budget Request and CIP

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CHCCS Superintendent's Budget Request 2019-2020 Summary FY 2019-20 Budget Request The Board of Education's funding desire is to help sustain our upward trends in student performance by continuing to engage, empower, and inspire our students and staff through our instructional programs and service delivery. The total District Appropriation request of$5,530,872 would help us greatly continue our important work thru sustaining operations with continuation funds of$3,598,872, to fund our students and staff s continuation "as-is" needs and our limited expansion funding recommendation of$1,932,000 to ensure we can keep our programs and schools moving forward. We are excited about our plans for deliberate EQUITY training throughout the district and county with a joint effort with both school systems as well as our own CHCCS efforts to integrate the equity lens throughout our district from operational levels to the schools and the classrooms. We know these efforts will help us change predictable outcomes for our students who are victims of the achievement gaps. All of our work will be tied to our strategic plan and a huge cornerstone piece surrounding EQUITY across all aspects of our work is going to help our students, staff and community flourish. By providing our students with expanded opportunities for academic enrichment through summer school, extended day, clubs and other activities we know we are going to make great achievement gains. By emphasizing the WHOLE CHILD thru our social/emotional programming efforts under Student Services we'll also be adding that extra support our students and parents need to be successful in the classroom and beyond. Our constant evaluation of our facility needs helps us to always make sure we are putting student and staff safety first. Our safety initiative will enable us to ensure we are creating that safe and welcoming environment for our students and enable us to respond well in any crisis. We continue to turn a critical eye towards our existing programs and resources while employing new and innovative programs to engage our most at-risk youth and provide them the tools and opportunities they will need to be successful in life. At the same time CHCCS is implementing programs that address the needs of our most accelerated learners so that all of our students can achieve at their full potential. Expanding the opportunities for our students is also critical for our students and families as continues to be exhibited in the fantastic work and collaborative efforts with the CHCCS Foundation, our PTA Council and other active advisory groups. It is crucial that we have the resources and strong partnerships necessary to offset any challenges while continuing to meet our students' needs in offering high-quality instructional programs. Offering a competitive benefit plan for our employees to include maternity/paternity leave would ensure we can continue to put high quality instructional staff in front of our students. We will serve over 12,350 students in our schools ready to learn this fall and we remain committed to serving each and every one of them. The support of our parents, community, business partners, the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Commissioners and others is crucial to help our students succeed. BE IT RESOLVED that the Board of Education of Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools submits its budget request and the authorization to increase the special district tax by $0.0470 per $100 property valuation (up to a total assessment of $0.2488 per $100 of property valuation), as needed, to fully fund our budget request to the Orange County Manager and Orange County Board of Commissioners. Thank you for considering our funding request for fiscal year 2019-2020.