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Remove Supplement Cap on Certified Employees (Strategic Plan Goal:Employee Experience) In order to attract and retain experienced staff, the local operating budget provides funding to remove the current supplement cap on certified teachers hired after July 2016. Certified staff who have accrued over 20 or 25 years of teaching experience, will once again be eligible to earn the District's historically higher supplement percentages of 20% or 25%. Increasing the supplement percentages of eligible teachers have been included in the local operating budget at $166,000. Expansion Summary The Expansion Budget totals $166,000 or $13.58 per pupil. With a backdrop of high uncertainty, it focuses the District's extremely limited resources on strategic plan alignment. Continuing to improve the employee experience is critical to addressing the future needs of the District. Removing the 16% supplement cap will allow the District to foster an improved employee experience through additional targeted equitable compensation of its experienced certified teaching staff. Non-Recurring Expenditures for 20-21 Cost for Additional Year of Project Advance (Strategic Plan Goals: Student Success and Employee Experience) State grant funds have provided the funding for Project Advance since December 2016. Additional grant funds will not be available starting in the 2020-2021 school year. The District's Office of Leadership and Strategy has collaborated with NCDPI to allow the remaining balance in State grant funding to carry over into FY 2020-21. These funds were previously set to expire on June 30, 2020. To address the Board's commitment to a one-year continuation of the Project Advance stipends, $428,500 will be available in carryover funds to offset the $968,500 projected overall cost This will reduce the local operating budget requirement to $540,000. This will allow the District to hold qualifying employees harmless during the 2020-21 school year. This will be a non-recurring expense, and will be funded through a one-time appropriation of$540,000 of local fund balance. COVID-19 Re-Entry and Recovery (Strategic Plan Goals: Student Success, Family & Community Engagement, and Organizational Effectiveness) As our schools adapt and overcome the COVD-19 pandemic and transition into what can be described as a new normal, continued planning and funding for re-entry and recovery will be paramount. The overall amount of funding required is still difficult to estimate. However, an allocation of $1,000,000 is included to prepare our schools to transition into various forms of instruction in a way that makes everyone feel safe. The allocation of funds for re-entry will help to ensure that appropriate supports are available to students, staff, and stakeholders. Since this has been an unprecedented time, we do not know what supports our learners will need, but we need to be prepared for the additional cost. 5 empower inspire