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The additional annual cost of the new building is $2,863,427 and this is based on Staff $1,583,782, Transportation $325,000, Buildings & Grounds $431,000, and Technology $523,447.
Based on this assessment, if the new school had not been built, our annual budget would have been reduced from $61,671,701 in 2008-09 to $61,137,057 in 2009-10.
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This was interesting for a few reasons:
- District enrollment has dropped from 4,758 as of 10/07 to 4,717 as of 11/08
- Cost per student per building has increased:
- Bushkill from 126 to 151
- Lower from 113 to 132
- Shafer from 126 to 129
- MS from 123 to 182
- HS from 182 to 183
Summary of Major Expenditure Increases/Decreases includes:
- The significant drop in Debt that was mentioned yesterday - a decrease of $1,476,292 and the fund transfer of $500,000.
- Special Education, traditionally indicated as the area that regulations have forced extra spending and thereby tax increases, has decreased by 6.4%.
- Technology loses 34% of its funding.
- Transportation increases $352,095 - based on page 1 this is due to the new building
Pages 7-12
These pages outline spending by State Code and compare proposed budget to current budget and prior year actuals dating to 2005-06.
Of interest to me is spending increase on "academic" (codes 1100-2200) vs. "support" (codes 2300-5100) areas. From 05-06 the academic expenditures have increased 21%, while support areas have increased 28%. The result is a minor percentage change in budget spending from 61.2% academic and 38.8% support to 59.8% academic and 40.2% support.
Where support has increased:
- Administrative costs increased 39% from $2.5M in 05-06 to $3.5M in 09-10
- Pupil health costs increased 53% from $332,766 to $508,141
- Business Office costs increased 24% from $512,350 to $634,750
- Buildings & Grounds costs increased 35% from $4,483,886 to $6,063,903
- Transportation costs increased 42% from $2,705,055 to $3,844,489
- Debt service costs increased 16% from $7,244,107 to $8,372,161
6 comments:
okay im gonna ask...bash me all you want... how does a school district spend 6 million on buildings and ground maint. ? hey maybe its just me, but that seems excessive..
While a big number, we have greatly expanded our facilities. The current MS opened about 2000. That is a good sized school compared to the old one (absorbed into the HS) and the new Intermediate School will add a considerable amount of land and building.
What concerns me even more is the debt we have absorbed to purchase these new buildings and the amount we are paying on that. But to your question (and no bashing):
The breakdown for the category is:
Salaries - $2,379,024
Benefits - $948,396
Purchase Professional & Technical Services - $252,500
Purchased Property Services - $1,434,119
Other Purchased Services - $273,900
Supplies - $742,464
Property - $31,500
Other Objects - $2000
Under staffing (page 22) it notes there are 14.5 Maintenance people and this has been consistent (between 14 and 15 each year) since 2001-02.
Also, it notes there are 52 teamster, I'm guessing this is roughly the total number of employees. Not sure if the top positions in the department are in this budget or in administration budget.
Personnel line divided by 52 gives an average salary of $45,750 and benefits of $18,238 per person.
Facilities: HS, MS, IM, Shafer, Bushkill, Lower, the Maintenance Building, and the Kern Building.
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$64,000/man a year for maintenance personnel.. wow, i need to apply..
What do you think you should pay a plumber or en electrician with 20 years of experience?
and how much should a guy get paid to cut grass ? or mop floors? to me thats excessive.
Ryan,
My question was sincere and your sarcastic reply did not answer it. I can guarantee you that the numbers reported are misleading.
The maintenance men from our school district, all 10 of them, curently earn less that $45,000 annually. The custodians make less than that. The problem is that the school district leaders, while trying to "cut back on paperwork" determined that the grass cutters and mailman should earn the same wages as the plumbers and electricians. All custodians make the same wages (less than maintenance) regardless of their level of responsibilty for the same purpose.
Please also note that the district's administration does not want to be bothered by "nuisance calls" over the weekends so there is a custodian "on call" in case of fire alarms, burglar alarms, etc. That is an additional expense.
I would also like to remind you of the "building fees" charged for use of the facilities on a weekend. I'm not sure if the additional custodial fees for those services are included in this budget. If that's the case, there should be additional income recorded somewhere to offset those expenses.
Enough for now, I could continue but what's the point? The administration is going to do what it pleases. Neither the blue collar workers nor the taxpayers will ever be satisfied with the results.
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