Presentation of Reformatted Budget Document (30 minutes)

Transcript (~9 min @ 2:17:08)

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▶ 2:16:37 Speaker 5: all that just graduations next friday night um six o'clock fred greenfield a week from this friday yep week from friday night the 31st uh whether you have a graduate graduate i know we'll see you but if not you get a younger older student come out and watch us recognize and celebrate these students and uh all that they've achieved over the years and secondly awards night is thursday night i want to thank all the people at home who have helped make some of the scholarship opportunities possible through the permanent scholarship fund and other individuals of families they'll be over $300,000 awarded to over well over 200 students so thank you all very much thank you all thank you mr. sell next up

▶ 2:17:29 Speaker 1: finance and facilities with ms. McAndrew all right evening everyone this is the

▶ 2:17:53 Jennifer McAndrew: Finance and Facilities Subcommittee there's one agenda item for us this evening which is the fiscal 2020 reformatted budget document I'll just very quickly remind everyone that when we pass the budget we talked about several additional opportunities for getting additional information and reformatted documents including this evening and as decisions continue to be made about the override money and other hires and as the contract negotiation wraps up there is additional information for the community even though all that money was accounted in the original budget and still is here this is additional information and we will do this again in September when more of those decisions are made our goal here is to provide the community with as much information as we have when we have it and to answer the committee's questions with that I'll turn it over to the superintendent and miss Farrell thank

▶ 2:19:07 Speaker 3: you for being here so late so again as requested by the committee this is our document that does by buildings does with 2018 the actual 2019 budget 2020 requests with comments anything that has been spent on the override funds is in blue there is still a great amount of money that is unassigned but accounted for I think when you get to it so I think it was page 19 she's saying 21 I'm also thinking 19 19 on mine as well because we are still in the process of making decisions as I said earlier as soon as we can make a decision on what a a position should look like we are posting it and as soon as it is filled we are putting it into this document again because of the way we function there and there are other factors that determine placement of staff for example how many speech teachers we may need at the Franklin how many ESL teachers we may need at the Hoover versus the Lincoln all those things wait for student enrollment figures to play out and then we make those assignments to buildings similarly on specialists for the elementary schools there is a committee of teachers and administrators working hard to try to plan how many how many specialties we needed each building they are cognizant of some Changes that will be coming in the in the contract and they are working within those proposed changes And those decisions have not been finalized yet either. I would like to just Draw your attention to a couple of items in here and then we can open it up for some questions Just in generalities the superintendent already indicated that you know There's a lot of planning that's still going on and we're being very cognizant of what our needs are and how the money should be spent and so we do not want to rush into that you will see when I pointed out to you that we are able to highlight some areas that are very specific that we know but yet some others that are still up in the air so pages 7 through 21 of this document break out each of our cost centers whether it's a particular school or a department like special education curriculum on page 15 if I could use that as an example you'll see that the first item on that page is high school teacher salaries in the comment is that the override very specifically said that we will be hiring for teachers for that building so there's an allocation of money yet to be determined after those positions are hired if it's an English teacher that money will go into the English line and likewise if it's a math teacher and so on about half ways down on the page you'll see a second entry that's in blue and that's for the additional position that is going to go to the high school which was for a guidance position so again we've tried to put things where it was very specific the middle school we know has four teachers as well the other page that I really want to draw your attention to is page 21 this is really where a bulk of the money is because it has not been distributed at this point you'll see that we have an ESL position we have the paraprofessionals we have the elementary social workers the assistant principal position elementary specialists again as the superintendent said we are looking at schedules we're looking at student population and needs and again once those are determined they will then go to the particular building so that when we report back in September you'll see that assistant principal in a building you will see those paraprofessionals highlighted in each of the buildings that they're assigned to and then half ways through that page you're also going to see over in the comment column negotiations there's a chunk of money 1.85 for negotiations and again we are in that process there is only so much information that we know for sure and that's commented down below where I say that $500,000 is allocated to teacher steps no matter what the contract says for percentages or anything of that nature that's guaranteed that that happens you go from step one to step two you go from step five step six so some of that's already been distributed the rest of the money which is one point two eight is for our further negotiations on what kinds of percentages market adjustments whatever it might be it also has to support all the other units that we talked about as part of the override about bringing paraprofessionals and VN drivers up to minimum wage and you know increases for administrators so there's an awful lot there still to be determined and again at some point once those contracts are settled that money will also then be distributed to many lines because again those teachers represent every building in multiple categories within those buildings so those are just a couple of the things at the back of this document you have pretty much all the supporting documents we provided in our earlier versions with some comparisons with who our staff are what their backgrounds are some of the comparisons with us and other districts so hopefully this answers a lot of the questions that were out there and we will continue once positions are filled to come back in the fall with something that really can earmark what positions went to what locations thank you

▶ 2:25:30 Gail Infurna: questions madam mayor thank you very much thank you for your work and this is

▶ 2:25:34 Speaker 3: much more detailed very easy to read clear as to where everything went where

▶ 2:25:36 Gail Infurna: the actuals were last year and the year before so I think this is very clear I just asked that this this record also gets put into the IQ m2 for the board of Alderman on the budget on the budget night that you go before there it's in already it's it already perfect perfect just so that they have the same document that we are all working off of so thank you for that thank you which is January

▶ 2:26:09 Speaker 2: 3rd that would be nice okay any other questions or comments seeing none that

▶ 2:26:19 Jennifer McAndrew: concludes finance and facilities for now thank you thank you miss McAndrew and