FY 2007 Superintendent’s Recommended
Operating Budget Summary
(Derived from MCPS FY2007 Operating
Budget Book)
January 2006
The Superintendent’s FY 2007
Recommended Operating Budget for the Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS)
totals $1,836,886,152. This represents
an overall increase of $122, 224,998, or 7.1% more than the $1,714,661,154
current approved FY 2006 Operating Budget.
Excluding grants and enterprise funds, the superintendent’s budget
recommendation for the purpose of spending affordability is
$1,709,322,737. This represents an
overall increase of $117,167,083 or 7.1% more than the $1,592,155,654
appropriated for the FY 2006 Operating Budget.
The FY 2007 Operating Budget
includes increases in operating costs for growth in student enrollment,
compensation changes, and other required inflationary increases including the
increased price of energy. It also
includes a recommendation of $15,343,712 for improvement initiatives in FY 2007
to expand full-day kindergarten to 17 additional schools, add 15 additional
assistant principals, and expand other programs needed for improved student
achievement.
Table 1 below summarizes the
main items in each of these categories.
Table 2 contains FY 2007 Budget initiatives funding, additional Full
Time Equivalent (FTE) staffing, and a reference to the FY 2007 Operating Budget
Book chapter that describes the initiative.
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Table 1: FY
2007 Superintendent’s Recommended Operating Budget ($ amounts in millions of
dollars) |
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ITEM |
AMOUNT |
ITEM |
AMOUNT |
|
FY 2006 Operating Budget (Nov. 2005) |
$1,714.7 |
PROGRAM REDUCTIONS |
|
|
ENROLLMENT GROWTH |
|
Central Services Reductions |
(1.6) |
|
Elementary/Secondary |
0.2 |
Support Operations
Reductions |
(1.5) |
|
Special Education |
4.3 |
School-Based Reductions |
(2.9) |
|
ESOL |
0.2 |
TOTAL PROGRAM REDUCTIONS |
(6.0) |
|
Transportation/Food
Service/Facilities/Plant Ops |
1.0 |
|
|
|
Benefits for staff added
for growth |
2.1 |
INITIATIVES |
|
|
TOTAL GROWTH AND REL. BENEFITS |
7.8 |
Full-day Kindergarten—17
add Schools |
1.9 |
|
NEW SCHOOLS (4 ES, 1 HS) |
9.7 |
Class-Size Reduction |
2.3 |
|
|
|
Middle and High School
Reform |
0.5 |
|
EMPLOYEE SALARIES |
|
High School Supports (TBA) |
2.6 |
|
Negotiated agreements |
40.4 |
Technology |
0.7 |
|
Benefits for Negotiated
agreements |
4.5 |
Elementary Assistant
Principals |
1.6 |
|
Continuing Salary Costs |
12.5 |
Building Services |
0.6 |
|
Benefits for Continuing
Salary Costs |
1.4 |
Parent
Engagement/Communications |
0.5 |
|
TOTAL SALARIES AND REL. BENEFITS |
58.8 |
Special Education |
3.8 |
|
|
|
Security and School
Environment |
0.7 |
|
EMPLOYEED BENEFITS AND
INSURANCE |
|
Organizational Development |
0.1 |
|
Employee Benefit Plan
(active) |
16.7 |
TOTAL INITIATIVES |
15.3 |
|
Employee Benefit Plan
(retired) |
(0.8) |
|
|
|
Retirement |
4.8 |
RECOMMENDED FY07 BUDGET |
$1,836.9 |
|
Tuition Reimbursement |
0.7 |
Less |
(52.0) |
|
FICA/Self-insurance/Worker’s
Compensation |
(4.7) |
Less Grants |
(75.6) |
|
TOTAL BENEFITS AND INSURANCE |
16.7 |
SPENDING AFFORDABILITY BUDGET |
$1,709.3 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
INFLATION AND OTHER |
|
REVENUE INCREASE BY SOURCE |
|
|
Utilities |
10.1 |
Local |
$68.8 |
|
Special Education Nonpublic
Tuition |
1.3 |
State |
47.8 |
|
Transportation |
2.5 |
Federal |
1.5 |
|
Plant Operations/Maintenance/Materials
Mgt |
1.0 |
|
0.2 |
|
Inflation |
1.7 |
Other |
3.9 |
|
Technology |
2.0 |
TOTAL REVENUE INCREASE |
$122.2 |
|
Food Service |
0.9 |
|
|
|
Other Changes |
0.4 |
|
|
|
TOTAL INFLATION AND OTHER |
19.9 |
|
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FY 2007 Budget Initiatives by MCPS Goal—Superintendent’s Recommended
Budget
|
Goal/Initiative |
FTE |
Amount |
Chapter |
|
Goal
1: Ensure Success for Every Student |
|
|
|
|
Full-day Kindergarten—17
additional schools |
26.0 |
$1,875,653 |
1-7 |
|
Expand Violence Prevention
Programs |
|
250,000 |
1-18 |
|
Add Assistant Principals
for Elementary Schools |
15.0 |
1,574,676 |
1-8 |
|
Lower Class Size for
Inclusion Classes in High Schools |
25.0 |
1,450,281 |
1-26 |
|
Reduce Oversize Art, Music,
PE Classes |
3.0 |
174,034 |
1-8 |
|
Add Directors of School
Performance |
2.0 |
198,142 |
1-35 |
|
Improve Staffing Ratio for
Learning Academic Disability (LAD) classes |
33.8 |
1,496.347 |
4-31 |
|
Implement Teaching Station
Staffing Model for Special Education |
24.4 |
1,039,000 |
4-31 |
|
Pilot Hours-Based Staffing
Model for Special Education |
15.3 |
714,527 |
4-31 |
|
Develop Web-Based System
for Individual Education Plans (IEPs) |
1.5 |
515,753 |
4-14 |
|
Expand Ride by the Rules
Program |
2.5 |
75,020 |
7-80 |
|
Add Building Services
Workers |
18 |
601,401 |
7-73 |
|
Goal
2: Provide an Effective Instructional
Program |
|
|
|
|
|
|
500,000 |
|
|
High School Supports |
|
2,600,000 |
|
|
Expand Gifted and Talented
Programs |
|
191,271 |
3-22 |
|
Add Substitutes and Teacher
Assistants |
12.5 |
701,686 |
1-8 |
|
Add Elementary School User
Support Specialists |
3.0 |
226,675 |
1-8/5-63 |
|
Provide Support for
Electronic Grading and Reporting Software |
2.0 |
191,980 |
5-29 |
|
Assure Data Safety and
Security |
|
100,000 |
5-23 |
|
Support Special Ed,
Professional Development, Parent Outreach Systems |
1.0 |
105,022 |
5-29 |
|
Enhance Support for Systems
Security |
1.0 |
87,761 |
5-23 |
|
Goal
3: Strengthen Productive Partnerships
for Education |
|
|
|
|
Enhance Translation
Services |
5.5 |
400,000 |
3-86 |
|
Expand Study Circles |
|
100,000 |
3-73 |
|
Goal
4: Create a Positive Work Environment
in a Self-Renewing Organization |
|
|
|
|
Provide Professional Growth
System Consultants—Supporting Services Training |
2.0 |
174,483 |
6-21 |