The State of Funding for Florida Schools

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The State of Funding for Florida Schools Pressures Facing Polk County Jason W. Pitts, Senior Director of Finance

How Does Polk County Compare to other Districts in the Nation? 1 How Does Polk County Compare to other Districts in the Nation? 28th Largest District in the nation (# of Students) Funded 995th out of the top 1,000 largest school districts (13,588 districts in the US) New York and Illinois - $23,000 per student West Virginia - $14,000 per student Florida - $7,000 per student

How Does Polk Compare to other Districts in Florida? 2 How Does Polk Compare to other Districts in Florida? Polk County is the 7th largest district in the state Polk County is funded 64th of 67 districts (bottom four) Polk offers second highest beginning teacher salary in state (as of 2016/2017) Polk’s average teacher salary is 25th in the state Polk’s spending on administrative costs is the 4rd lowest in the state

Additional Funding Challenges 3 Additional Funding Challenges Polk County has high poverty and ESE designated students Polk County is unique as an urban and rural county Extremely high transportation costs due to size and layout of county (state funding only covers 60% of costs) Polk County is larger than the state of Rhode Island 511 buses transport over 49,000 students 41,670 miles travelled each day (24,901 miles)

Transportation Funding vs. Expense 4 Transportation Funding vs. Expense Expense Funding

Florida’s Financing Model 5 Florida’s Financing Model Reported in the press as “Dollars per Student” Called the FEFP – Florida Education Financing Program To receive state assistance districts must use Required Local Effort When designed, it attempted to equalize funding across districts Funding is primarily property tax and sales tax

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7 10-year loss $237,220,873

8 State Average

9 Average Inflation Rate $6,960 State Funding United States Department of Labor Consumer Price Index

10 Property Value Loss

Polk’s Biggest, Imminent Challenge – Capital Funding 11 Polk’s Biggest, Imminent Challenge – Capital Funding ½ cent sales tax expires December 2018 – A loss $40 million per year in capital funds if not renewed Impact Fees – currently at 50% - growth not paying for itself Local Capital Improvement funding limited to 1.5 mills by legislature Lack of dedicated state capital funding (PECO) Current Capital Shortfall - $400 million Projected 5-year shortfall - $900 million Concurrency

Polk County School Board Budget FY2017-2018 11 Polk County School Board Budget FY2017-2018 General Fund - $835 million Special Revenue (Title funds, food service, other grants) - $180 million Debt Service - $66 million Capital - $192 million Internal Services (Self-Insured Funds) - $124 million Agency Accounts (Internal) - $24 million Grand Total = $1.5 billion

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General Fund Financial Health – Fund Balance 14 General Fund Financial Health – Fund Balance Board Policy – 5% (unassigned/assigned) State minimum – 3% State emergency intervention – 2% Standard government agency benchmark – 60 days or 15%

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16 FY 2018-2019 Budget Outlook 2018-19 New Items (Not including growth): Fuel Cost Increase 1,000,000 FRS rate increase 1,500,000 Recurring Cost of 2017/18 raises 8,159,000 Title 1 shift to General Fund Coach Positions 600,000 Professional Development at Turnaround schools 3,500,000 Continuing Turnaround school incentives 1,700,000 Employee Additional Benefit Package Expense 15,000,000 TOTAL NEW EXPENSES 31,459,000 NET INCREASE (Discretionary Revenue - Discretionary Expense)** (13,625,823) Needed to Reach State Mandated 3% Fund Balance   (3,730,576) Needed to Reach Board Policy 5% Fund Balance 11,547,914

Cost to Build a New School 17 Cost to Build a New School Elementary - $30 million Middle School - $40-$50 million High School - $60-$80 million