MSAD # PROPOSED BUDGET

MSAD #11 District Goals The budget was developed to ensure implementation of the district goals and to prepare students post-secondary, career, and civic life.

MSAD #11 District Goals ✤ Academic Achievement ✤ Educational Data Specialist - needed to analyze individual student data and to provide additional staff training ✤ New Evaluation Tools for teachers, administrators, superintendent, and support staff positions ✤ Adequate funding for Professional Development

MSAD #11 District Goals ✤ Educational Coherence ✤ Continued support for growth model assessments - NWEA testing in the fall, winter, and spring ✤ Class reconfiguration at the middle school - two person teams in grade 6 and looping in grades 7 & 8 (this reconfiguration could also fall under Academic Achievement) ✤ Additional early release day for staff and curriculum development work

MSAD #11 District Goals ✤ More Diverse Learning Opportunities ✤ Enhanced summer school program for struggling students ✤ Reassignment of middle school alternative ed personnel in effort to better support student achievement/needs ✤ Adequate funding for curriculum materials

MSAD #11 District Goals ✤ Safe and Educational Supportive Climate ✤ A fully funded Capital Improvement Plan ✤ Positive Behavior Intervention Support implementation and training designed to help teach students specific appropriate behaviors ✤ Reinstitution of the Middle School Advisor/Advisee Program as one tool to enhance connections between staff and students

MSAD #11 District Goals ✤ Community Connections ✤ Community Conversation in October - sponsored by the MSAD #11 School Board ✤ Aspiration Fair at the elementary level - designed to expose students to various career opportunities within our communities ✤ Proposed high school senior internship program

Proposed Budget The budget was also constructed to address an ongoing decline in student enrollment and to minimize the impact to taxpayers

Proposed Budget ✤ Enrollment Decline ✤ May March student decrease ✤ Projected Enrollment for anticipated decline of another 32 students (unknown until kindergarten registration is complete in August) ✤ 4.2% six year decline

Proposed Budget ✤ Decline in enrollment results in a subsequent decline in state subsidy ✤ The further the district is from the recommended staffing levels identified in the state subsidy formula, the greater loss in state subsidy ✤ Not addressing the decline in enrollment results in a number of classrooms falling below the School Board class size policy and a loss of state subsidy

Proposed Budget ✤ Proposed budget reductions from to : ✤ 5 elementary teaching positions ✤ 1 middle school special education teaching position ✤ 1 high school learning lab teaching position ✤ 1 elementary educational technician I position

Proposed Budget ✤ Additional changes in the proposed budget: ✤ Increase in annual bus lease ✤ Salary and benefit increases ✤ Electricity decrease ✤ Increase in fuel oil ✤ Restoration of money for library books and professional development

Proposed Budget ✤ Additional changes in the proposed budget: ✤ Decrease in number of seats budgeted for CATC (based on present enrollment and projected decline in enrollment) ✤ Full funding of the annual Capital Improvement Plan ✤ Additional duties of Educational Data Specialist added to T.C. Hamlin Principal’s position ✤

Proposed Budget Proposed Budget = $21,402, Comparison to the budget: A decrease of: ($506,888.59) or (2.31%)

Per Pupil Cost Comparison

Effect on Property Owners Gardiner (107,718.35) (3.30%) Pittston ( 5,296.29) (0.30%) Randolph 22, % West Gardiner ( 7,231.72) (0.31%)

Effect of Property Owners $100,000 of Local Valuation Gardiner $ (29.89) Pittston $ ( 2.92) Randolph $ West Gardiner $ ( 2.57)

Proposed Budget ✤ Next Step: ✤ Budget Meeting - Tuesday, May 29, 6 Gardiner Area High School Gymnasium ✤ Budget Referendum - Tuesday, June 12, local polling sites