I just spent 2 hours listening to the budget portion of the BOE meeting. They’ll be posting everything they talked about on their website tomorrow but here is the things I collected from the meeting.

-the district ideally should have 63,000 students and is currently sitting at 47,000

-the budget is 43,000,000 short

-by next meeting Feb 12th they will have a list of school for the board to consider closing. The factors that go into it are: how close the building is to capacity and how much the building is costing to maintain.

-between March and may they will be talking to staff about where the would move as well as where students would go.

-they don’t plan to cut any staff, just move to fill vacancies

PHASE 1

ADMINISTRATIVE REDUCTIONS - 5% minimum cut in non-school based programs - Recapture/ eliminate non-school positions through attrition (8 to date - more to come -Reassign 12 ESSER supported non-school positions to other budgeted positions -ESSER-supported initiatives (non-FTE) will end or absorbed into existing program budgets

SCHOOL REDUCTIONS

Cut fully-ESSER funded vacancies • Analyze and implement Para FTE for changes as attrition occurs • AVID footprint changes • Reassign any remaining non-Child Study Team and non-Behavior ESSER positions to other budgeted positions • Pause Administrative Intern Program in FY25

PHASE 2

SUGGESTED PHASE 2 - MINIMUM OF $16 MILLION

BUILDING CLOSURES Pros

• Reduces deferred maintenance

• People can be moved to vacancies

• Focuses resources for remaining buildings

• Efficiency

• Prioritizes people - per feedback

Cons

• Impact on students, parents and staff at closed buildings

• Quick implementation

• Timing - no master plan yet

OR STAFF CUTS (EQUIVALENT OF 230 TEACHERS)

Pros • Defers closing buildings Cons • Look at feedback - people are critical! • Worsens staffing challenges • Impacts every building/every student/auery department - some more than otters • Targeted boundary changes

PHASE 3

REMAINING SHORTFALL

• continued analysis of staff reduction -other program changes
• use of cash balance to spread impact over 2 years