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True or false?
“The School Board is asking for a larger increase in local funds this year than it did last year.”
Answer False
On March 27, the School Board sent a proposed budget to the Board of Supervisors that included a 6.2 percent increase in local funds of $494,968.
The RCPS local increase granted by the supervisors for the current 2006-07 year was $676,870, or 9.3 percent. Note: the $676,870 local increase for the schools for this year was included in the $1.8 million in additional real property revenue projected by the county for 2006-07. (Source: County Administrator John McCarthy).
Cost savings help reduce proposed spending increases to reasonable 6.2 percent:
How will the funds be spent?
1. Improve salaries for employees 4.5 percent plus step; maintain health insurance: $508,703
2. Pay state-required increase for retirement system premiums: $96,266
3. Improve programs for children: Instructional materials for both schools; tuition increase for Mountain Vista Governor’s School; increase for Next Step; add physical education mde to help reduce childhood obesity; add special education aide: $57,607
4. Increase School Board members’ salaries from $600 to $900 per year: $1,500
Subtotal: $664,076
Less cost savings achieved through modified zero-based
86.4%