Superintendent's Budget Presentation

Tonight the Superintendent presented his proposed budget for FY2009. This is my first time through the budget process and I anticipate that it will be a tremendous education experience for me and the two members-elect who haven't ever been through the process before. We have meetings about four nights/week until January 8th, when we expect to vote on the final budget and send it to the Board of Supervisors.

You'll read about it in the papers I'm sure, but here are my bullet-point notes from the presentation, in case you wanted to look over my shoulder. I won't elaborate on any of it because it's late and I'm tired.

• Supervisors York, McGimsey, Buckley, Waters and Miller attended.

• 14% group health insurance rate increase ($16.7M)

• 5.8% teacher salary increase including step
• Classified Employee 6.0% increase
• Auxiliary 6.4% increase
• Administrator 5.6% increase
• Email archive servers
• Potomac Falls High School stadium scoreboard
• Proposed ($801.4M) ($110.9M total increase, $84M local)

• 16% budget increase
• Budget distribution:
  

o 79.9% instruction

o 8.5% Ops & Maintenance

o 6.8% Pupil Transportation

o 3.0% Administration

o 1.3% Attendance & Health

o 0.5% Facilities

• 291 new teachers needed to accommodate growth

Hopefully I can get you a link to the Superintendent's powerpoint presentation.