Albemarle County Public Schools Feb. 12th Budget Update
Parents, please take note of the following information provided by Jane Kulow, President of the Parent Council, and Maury Brown, Communications Coordinator for ACPS.
Greetings all:
- If nothing else changes, our schools face $14-15 million in cuts for the coming year.
- Dr. Moran has said this is the worst budget crisis she has seen in all of her educational experience and has called the impact “catastrophic.”
- If you want to take action, there are two public hearings:
- Speak directly to the School Board on Feb. 15, 6:30 pm, Lane Auditorium, Albemarle County Office Building — they want your input on the decisions they need to make on what will be cut. Please note: the School Board is not empowered to increase funding.
- Speak directly to the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors on March 3, 6:00 pm, Lane Auditorium, Albemarle County Office Building — they want your input on how much funding the schools get via the Albemarle County tax rate. Please note: the BOS is not empowered to make decisions on which educational programs get funded.
The communication below was prepared by Maury Brown, Communications Coordinator for ACPS. She has provided links to new documents available on the ACPS website; I have included them as attachments as well. Ms. Brown’s goal is to provide clear, updated information on each of the related issues. Please forward this information to your school communities so parents can understand the financial outlook our schools face and, if they care to do so, take action from an informed position.If you have any question about any of this, please contact me and I will track down an answer. Thank you all for the time you are taking to provide information to our parents.Jane--
Jane B. Kulow
jbkulow@gmail.com
434 293.9940
ACPS Parent Council, President
www.acpsparentcouncil.org
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------2010-2011 Budget Update
As you are probably aware, the budget picture for next fiscal year, 2010-11, has gotten considerably more grim as a result of changes taking place at the state level that will result in substantially fewer dollars to Albemarle County Public Schools next year. Below are some one-page fact sheets and narrative summaries of the reductions under consideration, as well as two issues pending at the state level (implementing the changes to the Composite Index and Del. Bell’s amendment to take the revenue sharing payment into account in state funding allocations to Albemarle). Please review these items to familiarize yourself with these issues and the affect of these cuts on the School Division for next year.
Click HERE <http://schoolcenter.k12albemarle.org/education/components/docmgr/download.php?sectiondetailid=86957&amp;fileitem=50238&amp;catfilter=13284> for the Fact Sheet summarizing the reductions under consideration by Albemarle County Public Schools to meet the projected revenue shortfalls, including numbers of personnel. Click HERE <http://schoolcenter.k12albemarle.org/education/components/docmgr/download.php?sectiondetailid=86957&amp;fileitem=50235&amp;catfilter=13284> for the Fact Sheet on Delegate Bell’s Budget Amendment regarding changing Albemarle County’s revenue figures used in the state’s Composite Index calculation to reflect the Revenue Sharing Agreement payment and result in more state funding to ACPS. Click HERE <http://schoolcenter.k12albemarle.org/education/components/docmgr/download.php?sectiondetailid=86957&amp;fileitem=50234&amp;catfilter=13284> for the Fact Sheet on the Impact to Albemarle County Schools due to Implementing the Composite Index Changes in 2010-11. Click HERE <http://schoolcenter.k12albemarle.org/education/components/docmgr/download.php?sectiondetailid=86957&amp;fileitem=50236&amp;catfilter=13284> to review the $5.3 million reductions already included in the Superintendent’s Funding Request [includes line item amounts] Click HERE <http://schoolcenter.k12albemarle.org/education/components/docmgr/download.php?sectiondetailid=86957&amp;fileitem=50237&amp;catfilter=13284> to review the $8.4 million in additional reductions under consideration to meet revenue projections. [includes line item amounts]
Board of Supervisors:
All of them: bos@albemarle.org
Ann Mallek, White Hall : amallek@albemarle.org
Dennis Rooker, Jack Jouett: drooker@albemarle.org
Rodney Thomas, Rio: rthomas@albemarle.org
Ken Boyd, Rivanna: kboyd@albemarle.org
Duane Snow, Samuel Miller: dsnow@albemarle.org
Lindsay Dorrier, Scottsville: ldorrier@albemarle.org
Every one penny added to the current tax rate equals about $1 million in revenues for ACPS. The School Division faces an approximate $4 million shortfall in local revenue at current tax rate, due to suppressed housing assessments. $1 million equates to about 14 teachers salaries and benefits. An "equalized tax rate" that would bring in the same amount of revenue as the current year, with the lower housing assessments and without raising the actual dollars (taxes) paid by each homeowner would be 76.2 cents. That reduces by half the local shortfall to schools, from about $4 million less to about $2 million less.
General Assembly:
Northern Albemarle, Rob Bell, delrbell@house.virginia.gov
Urban Albemarle & Charlottesville, David Toscano, DelDToscano@house.virginia.gov
Southern Albemarle, Watkins Abbitt, DelWAbbitt@house.virginia.gov
Western Albemarle, Steve Landes, DelSLandes@house.virginia.gov
State Senate: Creigh Deeds, district25@senate.virginia.gov,
Emmett Hanger, district24@senate.virginia.gov
To help ACPS we lobby for the following:
1. Delay the implementation of the Composite Index changes until 2011-2012 so that the 97 localities, including Albemarle, may absorb their reductions over 2 years, resulting in fewer teachers and school division employees losing their jobs in 2010-11. (Implementing next year results in $5.2 million less for ACPS).
2. Maintain the Triennial census as the accurate calculation of student enrollment in public school localities. Abolishing the triennial census adversely affects localities with fluctuating resident populations, such as college towns and towns with military installations. (the change results in about $1 million less in state funds for ACPS).
3. Support Del. Bell's Budget Amendment to ensure that Albemarle's actual revenues are used in the state's Composite Index funding formula. The current formula overstates Albemarle's revenues by ~$18 million, the amount of the revenue sharing payment sent to Charlottesville every year. This results in less state funding for Albemarle Public Schools. Approving the amendment returns $2.6 million to ACPS.
Members of the House Appropriations Committee Considering Del. Bell's Amendment:
DelBTata@house.virginia.gov,
DelKCox@house.virginia.gov,
DelSLingamfelter@house.virginia.gov
DelCPoindexter@house.virginia.gov,
DelWAbbitt@house.virginia.gov,
DelJScott@house.virginia.gov,
DelMBaCote@house.virginia.gov, Support Del. Bell's Budget Amendment to ensure that Albemarle's actual revenues are used in the state's Composite Index funding formula. The current formula overstates Albemarle's revenues by ~$18 million, the amount of the revenue sharing payment sent to Charlottesville every year. This results in less state funding for Albemarle Public Schools. Approving the amendment returns $2.6 million to ACPS and corrects the math error in the formula.
Maury Brown
Communications Coordinator
Albemarle County Public Schools
401 McIntire Road
Charlottesville, VA 22903
(434) 972-4049
mbrown4@k12albemarle.org
Jane B. Kulow
jbkulow@gmail.com
434 293.9940
ACPS Parent Council, President
www.acpsparentcouncil.org
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------2010-2011 Budget Update
As you are probably aware, the budget picture for next fiscal year, 2010-11, has gotten considerably more grim as a result of changes taking place at the state level that will result in substantially fewer dollars to Albemarle County Public Schools next year. Below are some one-page fact sheets and narrative summaries of the reductions under consideration, as well as two issues pending at the state level (implementing the changes to the Composite Index and Del. Bell’s amendment to take the revenue sharing payment into account in state funding allocations to Albemarle). Please review these items to familiarize yourself with these issues and the affect of these cuts on the School Division for next year.
Click HERE <http://schoolcenter.k12albemarle.org/education/components/docmgr/download.php?sectiondetailid=86957&amp;fileitem=50238&amp;catfilter=13284> for the Fact Sheet summarizing the reductions under consideration by Albemarle County Public Schools to meet the projected revenue shortfalls, including numbers of personnel. Click HERE <http://schoolcenter.k12albemarle.org/education/components/docmgr/download.php?sectiondetailid=86957&amp;fileitem=50235&amp;catfilter=13284> for the Fact Sheet on Delegate Bell’s Budget Amendment regarding changing Albemarle County’s revenue figures used in the state’s Composite Index calculation to reflect the Revenue Sharing Agreement payment and result in more state funding to ACPS. Click HERE <http://schoolcenter.k12albemarle.org/education/components/docmgr/download.php?sectiondetailid=86957&amp;fileitem=50234&amp;catfilter=13284> for the Fact Sheet on the Impact to Albemarle County Schools due to Implementing the Composite Index Changes in 2010-11. Click HERE <http://schoolcenter.k12albemarle.org/education/components/docmgr/download.php?sectiondetailid=86957&amp;fileitem=50236&amp;catfilter=13284> to review the $5.3 million reductions already included in the Superintendent’s Funding Request [includes line item amounts] Click HERE <http://schoolcenter.k12albemarle.org/education/components/docmgr/download.php?sectiondetailid=86957&amp;fileitem=50237&amp;catfilter=13284> to review the $8.4 million in additional reductions under consideration to meet revenue projections. [includes line item amounts]
Board of Supervisors:
All of them: bos@albemarle.org
Ann Mallek, White Hall : amallek@albemarle.org
Dennis Rooker, Jack Jouett: drooker@albemarle.org
Rodney Thomas, Rio: rthomas@albemarle.org
Ken Boyd, Rivanna: kboyd@albemarle.org
Duane Snow, Samuel Miller: dsnow@albemarle.org
Lindsay Dorrier, Scottsville: ldorrier@albemarle.org
Every one penny added to the current tax rate equals about $1 million in revenues for ACPS. The School Division faces an approximate $4 million shortfall in local revenue at current tax rate, due to suppressed housing assessments. $1 million equates to about 14 teachers salaries and benefits. An "equalized tax rate" that would bring in the same amount of revenue as the current year, with the lower housing assessments and without raising the actual dollars (taxes) paid by each homeowner would be 76.2 cents. That reduces by half the local shortfall to schools, from about $4 million less to about $2 million less.
General Assembly:
Northern Albemarle, Rob Bell, delrbell@house.virginia.gov
Urban Albemarle & Charlottesville, David Toscano, DelDToscano@house.virginia.gov
Southern Albemarle, Watkins Abbitt, DelWAbbitt@house.virginia.gov
Western Albemarle, Steve Landes, DelSLandes@house.virginia.gov
State Senate: Creigh Deeds, district25@senate.virginia.gov,
Emmett Hanger, district24@senate.virginia.gov
To help ACPS we lobby for the following:
1. Delay the implementation of the Composite Index changes until 2011-2012 so that the 97 localities, including Albemarle, may absorb their reductions over 2 years, resulting in fewer teachers and school division employees losing their jobs in 2010-11. (Implementing next year results in $5.2 million less for ACPS).
2. Maintain the Triennial census as the accurate calculation of student enrollment in public school localities. Abolishing the triennial census adversely affects localities with fluctuating resident populations, such as college towns and towns with military installations. (the change results in about $1 million less in state funds for ACPS).
3. Support Del. Bell's Budget Amendment to ensure that Albemarle's actual revenues are used in the state's Composite Index funding formula. The current formula overstates Albemarle's revenues by ~$18 million, the amount of the revenue sharing payment sent to Charlottesville every year. This results in less state funding for Albemarle Public Schools. Approving the amendment returns $2.6 million to ACPS.
Members of the House Appropriations Committee Considering Del. Bell's Amendment:
DelBTata@house.virginia.gov,
DelKCox@house.virginia.gov,
DelSLingamfelter@house.virginia.gov
DelCPoindexter@house.virginia.gov,
DelWAbbitt@house.virginia.gov,
DelJScott@house.virginia.gov,
DelMBaCote@house.virginia.gov, Support Del. Bell's Budget Amendment to ensure that Albemarle's actual revenues are used in the state's Composite Index funding formula. The current formula overstates Albemarle's revenues by ~$18 million, the amount of the revenue sharing payment sent to Charlottesville every year. This results in less state funding for Albemarle Public Schools. Approving the amendment returns $2.6 million to ACPS and corrects the math error in the formula.
Maury Brown
Communications Coordinator
Albemarle County Public Schools
401 McIntire Road
Charlottesville, VA 22903
(434) 972-4049
mbrown4@k12albemarle.org
Click here to download:
Summary_Sheet_Budget_Reductions_Under_Consideration_for_2010-11.pdf (117 KB)
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