Quarterly Update to Kenai Peninsula Borough AssemblyMarch 13, 2012Joe Arness, Board PresidentSteve Atwater, Superintendent

Tonight’s PresentationDistrict Improvements

◦Curriculum◦Career Technical Education

Looking ahead, FY13 financial picture

Negotiations

Curriculum- Raising the BarOur new process for developing

curriculum is more comprehensive and more standardized. New language arts curriculum will be in place in August.

We are developing common assessments (given on a quarterly basis) to help us determine where we need to focus our staff development efforts.

Career Technical Education- Growing our Capacity

• Big investment in infrastructure

• Career pathways-not just industrial arts

• Partnership with AVTEC for Seward students

• Use of Type M teachers

• CTE plan

Legislature and Education FundingFunds for student transportation (SB182)

seem likelyOne time money for energy (similar to last

year) may happenBase Student Allocation- not yet clear if

this will happen- House is skeptical, but not of KPBSD

Capital Budget◦Requesting funds for tracks for Homer, Kenai

and Soldotna high schools◦District set aside money for Homer Track

preliminary study.

FY13 Budget, our goal is to maintain the whole

Prior to 2008 KPBSD offered a basic

level of service

Items enhanced by programmaticstaffing

KPBSD’s FY13 Budgetto maintain the whole will require $3.7

million more than received this year. Request of $1.25 million from Borough

will cover 1/3 of deficit.We are working hard in Juneau to

secure an increase to the BSA and to pupil transportation funds

200+ non-tenured teachers will not get a contract until we have a better sense of our FY13 revenue

state revenuelocal

revenue

negotiationsfederal revenue

Fiscal planning for next year-waiting for the pieces of the puzzle to come together

KPBSD’s Recent Local Revenue Trend

Revenue Type

FY10(actual)

FY11 (actual)

FY12 (projected

)

FY13 (requeste

d)

Local Contribution

$42,983,376

$42,588,135 $43,251,135

$44,500,000

(requested)

Local Maximum

$43,261,194

$45,872,444 $46,153,131

$47,040,962

(estimated)

Difference ($277,818) ($3,284,309) ($2,901,966)

($2,540,962)

Helping the Public Make Sense of the Local Contribution

District would like to continue the conversation that uses a mil rate equivalent for the local contribution to make school funding personal

The sooner that the Assembly can set a funding floor, the sooner we can begin to issue contracts to our non-tenured staff

Negotiations- Trying to Find Common Ground

Our goal: student centered, fiscally responsible, sustainable

Questions◦ Unknown level of revenue for FY13◦ Question of fund balance and using a large portion

of it in short term for compensation or using it for long term for maintaining the whole

◦ Two proposals are about $5 million apart Salary Considerations

◦ Cost of living◦ Built in steps to salary schedule

Health Care◦ Percent of contribution paid by employees- what is

fair? What is doable?◦ Difficulty of part time classified paying premium

Questions?