Brentwood Elementary School

School Advisory Council

Joint Budget Meeting with the Shared Decision Making Team

April 19, 2007

 

Meeting called to order at  3:30 p.m.

 

Attendees:

Representing SAC at the joint SAC/SDMT meeting were Keith Thompson (chair and teacher representative), Staci Blackwell (parent representative), and Britt Galipault (secretary and parent representative).  The meeting was chaired by Michelle Henderson (principal) and John Weida (assistant principal).

 

The purpose of this meeting was to review the school budget for the 2007 – 2008 school year and to reach a joint consensus between the SAC and the SDMT on how to allocate our flexible personnel budget for the coming school year.

 

Michelle Henderson began by reviewing Part A of the budget, which are centrally allocated positions mandated and funded by the school board.  79.26 positions were funded by the Landings for a total of $4,950,125.00, the details of which are set forth in Appendix A.

 

Part B of the budget is our flexible personnel allocation.  This part of the budget totals $75,286.00.  Together with the $280,765.00 allocated to us by the Landings for Title I teachers, this gives us $356,051.00 to spend.  However, we must purchase one additional classroom teacher out of these funds (to achieve state mandated minimum class sizes) and a 0.5 ESOL liaison, which is a mandated but unfunded position.  We are also funding a science teacher (at the Title I rate of $56,135.00) to add science to the specials wheel next year, as per the recommendations of the SDMT, and realizing $33,619.00 in cost savings by waiving the science aide funded by the Landings, which we are able to do because we are hiring a science teacher.  This leaves us $227,071.00 to allocate among our remaining priorities.

 

Each team was asked to list their priorities for additional positions:

 

·         Kindergarten:  2 or 3 reading teachers, K-1 lab

·         1st grade:  K-1 lab, 3 reading teachers

·         2nd grade:  K-1 lab, media specialist, 2 reading teachers

·         3rd grade:  K-1 lab, a minimum of 2 reading teachers, 1 staff member (not a volunteer) in the media center

·         4th grade:  2 reading teachers, behavior specialist, science teacher (unless the right A3 aide can be found)

·         5th grade:  Science teacher, K-1 lab, at least 2 reading teachers and possibly an aide for the reading teacher.

·         ESE:  2 reading teachers, behavior teacher, K-1 lab

·         Specials:  Science teacher, media specialist with media aide.

·         Support:  K-1 lab, media specialist, media aide.

 

We also discussed adding media as a sixth specials period.  As per the recommendation of the SDMT, a sixth specials period would be added if the funding was available.  Those present were unable to agree on whether to add a sixth specials period, and the meeting was adjourned at 4:45 p.m. without consensus.

Appendix A

2007 – 08 Individual School Executive Budget Summary

Specific Financial Information