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CHCCS Superintendent's Budget Request 2019-2020 <br /> projected 30 student increase of$123,780. The CHCCS only projection used is the DPI projection and <br /> that is 3 below the county's SAPFO projection of 12,358. <br /> Local Continuation Funding Requirements <br /> The incremental local continuation budget requirement for Chapel Hill-Carrboro City <br /> Public Schools is $3,598,872, which is a 7.0% increase to maintain current operational <br /> services — AS IS. This is comprised of three main sections: Student Growth impacts, <br /> Operational/Inflationary impacts, and Salary/Benefit legislative impacts. The highlights of our base <br /> budget requirements to sustain our current level of operations are as follows: <br /> A) Net funding required for students at the current per-pupil funding of$4,126 would be a <br /> net increase of funds of $123,780. That is comprised of a projected increase CHCCS <br /> students from the prior year of 20 and an increase in charter school students of 10. The net <br /> change in students for CHCCS is projected using the state projection at this time for <br /> consistency from year-to-year. Overall the district has relatively stable student numbers from <br /> year-to-year(see prior section). <br /> B) The requirement for operational costs is a net increase of $237,715. Operational costs <br /> include items for utilities, maintenance, supplies, and others required for district facilities as <br /> well as supplies & materials for classrooms funded from local resources. We used the <br /> Consumers Price Index (CP1 Dept. of Labor — Dec 2018) for our projections. This section <br /> reflects the following: <br /> 1) Inflationary costs for operations from FY 2018-19 are $198,613 that reflects the <br /> application of the CPI increase of 1.9%applied to our local non-salary expenditures. <br /> 2) Projected increase in utility/energy costs are projected at $39,102 and reflect the CPI <br /> average increase in this category of 1.1%. <br /> 3) The district has no new square footage coming on-line in FY 2019-20. As such we <br /> are not requesting any continuation funds for operational costs this year. <br /> 4) We continue to work on our sustainability initiatives related to being good stewards of <br /> our resources and environments. As we achieve savings in these areas they are <br /> reinvested towards our sustainability efforts. <br /> C) Salary and Benefit requirements for local staff (est. 888 FTE) total $3,237,377. This <br /> breaks down as follows: <br /> • The state appears intent to increasing salaries this next year for teachers and for <br /> classified staff. Teacher's average increase is projected at 5.0% and classified staff at <br /> 3%. This impact on locally paid staff would be $1,821,339 with the FICA benefit <br /> portion being 139,332. This also includes the impact on the local teacher supplement. <br /> This request also ensures the district meets the requirements of providing a living <br /> wage for its employees under policy 6424/7061. <br /> • There is currently projected to be a 4.0% increase required for employer's <br /> hospitalization. This will increase that cost by $250 per person to $6,354, for a total <br /> additional cost of$222,175 for local staff. <br /> • The other portion of the benefit increase is related to the impact on the state's <br /> retirement rate increasing by 1.5% to 19.34%, which is a percent of salary. The <br /> retirement rate impact is an increase of$1,054,531 for local staff. <br />