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Budget Workshop
from April 14, 2011
On Thursday, 4/14/2011, the BCPS Board of Education held an open budgetary work session. During this session, the public was invited to share their input with the Board regarding the budget for 2011-2012. After a brief introduction in the auditorium, the public divided into 15 groups, each led by a group facilitator. The groups were given the task of finding $12 Million in order to "balance" the budget for the 2011-2012 school year. Board of Education members moved from group to group to hear the concerns of the citizens. After the group sessions ended, the group worksheets were collected as well as any individual worksheets that members of the public wanted to share.
The budget worksheets submitted from the budget workshop on April 14, 2011 (held at 6 pm at PHS) have been scanned and are downloadable. Click the the link below to view the submitted forms.
Budget Worksheets with a colored background represent group/room responses.
Budget Worksheets with a white background represent individual responses, unless otherwise noted.
All ideas have been compiled below and shown in the Budget Worksheet Summary of Ideas. Ideas that were listed multiple times in the worksheets have only been listed once (unless there was a unique difference among the suggestions). Be sure to use the link on the toolbar (1-100 >) to look at additional pages of information.
Note: the fund balance used in this workshop was the balance as of July 1, 2010.
As you review these documents, keep in mind that these notes and ideas were collected in "brainstorming" sessions and that participants did not have the opportunity to review and edit their responses.
4-11-2011 ALL Financial Options - Everyone.pdf
http://docs.google.com/document/d/12XsMDlovPawB7k9uWT5IacJ0QZu_RzrFKCNVvlUxzSU/edit?hl=en
Make sure teams carpool to schools. We need to make sure multiple vehicles are not used unless absolute necessary.
Cut Certified Supplements (25%)
$553,191.00
Eliminate expenditures for consultants
Satellite stations for maintenance & buses
Look at teachers with action plans in place first (even before non-tenured)
Summer staffing?
Technology spending?
Choose education software more carefully (Study Island, Classcape, materials, etc.)
Cut Certified Positions, Retirees, and Attrition (120)
$6,000,000.00
Cut supplements for administrators
$114,000.00
Why do we increase supplements for administrators for next year
Cut 34 classified positions
$1,000,000.00
50 retired folks
$2,500,000.00
Layoff - Performance based cuts plus principals' input
Cut 1 HR director - questions about why there are 2
$50,000.00
Cut all cell phones
$14,000.00
Cut all mobile units
Close schools at 5:00 pm
10% pay cut with a furlough
Cut maintenance positions
Look at taking a 5% to 10% pay cut across board, including the central office.
Cut purchase of software (Streamline)
$1,000,000.00
Pay freeze at CO and administrative level
Refinance loans at a lower rate
$5,000,000.00
Encouragement incentive for 30+ years retirees
Cut EC positions at CO level
$350,000.00
Sharing custodial staff among schools
Cut Central Office Postage
$124,000.00
Cut WP Symphonies
$5,000.00
Eliminate Energy Administrator
$100,000.00
Eliminate Behavior Specialists
$250,000.00
10% cut in Central Office administrative staff
$150,000.00
50 positions lost due to attrition
$2,500,000.00
Cut BOE Staff Development and travel allotment
$150,000.00
Cut software - just go to Apex
$40,000.00
Continue w/substitute savings - use for salaries
Cut 50 certified positions
$2,500,000.00
Cut Central Office staff supplements
Cut 50 classified positions
$1,500,000.00
Salary for energy savings position, eliminate redundant positions
Attrition with hiring freeze
$3,200,000.00
Eliminate online programs
$500,000.00
Cut Strategic Alliance Manager
$30,000.00
Reduce 54 positions based on 2 years low evaluations
$2,700,000.00
Cut 1 HR Director
$90,000.00
Combine Head Custodian/Safety manager
$50,000.00
Cut 12 instructional coaches
$600,000.00
Cut purchase of Library books for one year
$100,000.00
5 year suspension middle school sports (rent school facilities to recration leagues - possible revenue)
$50,000.00
Use Google Apps - McDowell saved $400,000
$400,000.00
Eliminate administrative staff blackberries/data plan
$5,000.00
Cut Staff Development
$100,000.00
Cut 100% supplements
$2,169,375.00
Reduce subs line item to $500,000
$240,000.00
Cut 100% Administrative bonuses
$300,000.00
Cut 100% non-certified supplements
$739,610.00
1/4 reduction in supplement (cut adm)
$115,000.00
Cut academic coaches and subject area
$500,000.00
No tile or painting
Cut how ever many certified and classified positions it takes to balance the budget
Cut low performing teachers (54)
$2,700,000.00
Cut Driver's Education
Cut supplements
$1,700,000.00
Cut instructional coaches (7) 2 per school
$350,000.00
Eliminate vehicles used for personal use
Eliminate Staff Development
Cut 80 certified positions
$4,000,000.00
(no losses of these assuming retirement)
Cut 15 classified positions
$500,000.00
Cut funding for athletic departments - in other states, students pay 100% of their expenditures
Cut supplements for non-certified personnel
$739,610.00
Retire plus 10 teachers - attrition
$4,000,000.00
Cut 70 certified positions
$3,500,000.00
Cut 12 classified positions
Cut 70 classified positions
$2,100,000.00
Cut mileage
Cut/Reduce certified supplements (50%)
$1,084,688.00
Cut Instructional Coaches
Cut/Reduce non-certified supplements (50%)
$369,805.00
Cut custodial - teachers may be willing to clean their own classrooms
Cut 100 certified positions
$5,000,000.00
Temporarily eliminate textbook funds
Cut or reduce board compensations. Eliminate professional development and other allotments.
Cut 10% pay for all administrative offices/central office administration
Reduction in guidance counselors (4)
$200,000.00
Do not replace Retirees (50)
$2,500,000.00
Dismiss staff that have been on Action Plan for 2+ years (estimate 20? countywide)
$1,000,000.00
Cut coaching supplements
Cut 40 certified positions
$2,000,000.00
Cut 30 classified positions
$1,000,000.00
Cut Safety Officer positions
Cut behavioral specialists
Eliminate IT positions
Cut/Reduce Certified and Non-Certified Supplements
$2,000,000.00
(*only if used for teaching positions)
Combine NC WISE and Secretary positions
Cut #87, #78 staff development
$16,611.00
Cut #134 travel
$5,000.00
Cut #78 Cultural Arts
$5,000.00
Cut Principal and Assistant Principal supplement (decrease)
$73,000.00
Reduce substitute allotment
Eliminate staff development (elementary) teachers and Adm.
$15,000.00
Eliminate consulting fees
$100,000.00
Reduce maintenance crossovers (duplication)
$50,000.00
Suspend facility renovations unless absolute necessary.
No reduction in supplements - remain the same
Cut Payables staff
Reconsider consolidations
$500,000 per school
$500,000.00
Athletics - make county conference/shorter drives
Use $3 million from fund balance
$3,000,000.00
Alternate calendar/school day
$900,000.00
Limit non-conference games
BIO Diesel/transportation
Maintenance - look at more consistency & conservation
Use at least some of the fund balance
Busing radius/under 5 miles, provide own transportation
Use Fund Balance
$1,000,000.00
Consolidate schools (do not close/move Glen Alpine or Hallyburton)
$2,000,000.00
Recommend Retirement (buy-out)
Follow basic bussing requirements (investigate reductions)
$50,000.00
Transportation - athletics - combine teams on buses - efficiency of bus routes
Allow CTE to support maintenance
Redistrict (redraw lines)
Consider creating magnet schools (no transportation or meals)
Close Family Connections in the summer
Try to get County Commission to fund more for the school system
Do not replace Family Connections Parents As Teachers director who is retiring in July
Consolidation of 4 original schools named
$2,000,000.00
Consolidate high school class size - to eliminate classified positions
Fundraiser - Like United Way where people can choose to earmark donation to school fund
Consolidation of bus routes in order to do away with 2nd load routes being eliminated
Equitable distribution of materials and money across all schools
Reconsider consolidation of 6 schools (not Draughn)
$3,000,000.00
Eliminate Library book fund for 1 year
$500,000.00
Consolidate FHES and CES into WJMS
$1,000,000.00
Decentralize maintenance - let principals do it
Can bus routes be contracted out? Redistricting to make transporation more efficient.
Consolidate Glen Alpine to WA Young and Oak Hill
$500,000.00
Overwhelming support for consolidation this year
$3,500,000.00
Consolidate Rutherford College Elementary to Valdese
$500,000.00
Consolidate Icard to Hildebran and Ray Childers
$500,000.00
Consolidate 2 schools
$2,000,000.00
Use Fund Balance
$2,000,000.00
4 day week for summer staff
$50,000.00
Consolidate Rutherford College
$500,000.00
Change calendar to 162 days with extended school days like Wilkes County
$750,000.00
Hybrid school year (see attached Wilkes County info)
$1,000,000.00
Do not use fund balance
Open bidding for TP (toilet paper) and other supplies
Give sports back to the community
Extend day by 45 minutes - only go 162 days (future)
$750,000.00
Contract maintenance
Return to consolidation plan (5) leave Hallyburton due to safety/security
$2,500,000.00
Consolidate 3-6 schools
$3,000,000.00
Put maintenance personnel in high schools to cover high school and surrounding schools
Change calendar to save over Spring Break
Pursue athletic costs
Redistrict to get true enrollment for each school
Solar energy projects (completely funded through private companies)
Outsource food, transportation, and custodial services
Eliminate Hallyburton Academy
Offer incentive to 25 to 27 years to retire
Eliminate Daycare at High Schools
$20,000.00
Redistricting to reduce mobile units
$1,000,000.00
Internet service through Google
Naming rights to stadium and auditorium over a 5 year contract (High School)
$100,000.00
Naming rights to stadium and auditorium (Middle School)
$50,000.00
Hybrid School Calendar
$5,000,000.00
Consider consolidation in a timely manner
Convert our fund balance to offset deficit to save as many teachers as possible.
Convert some of our capital balance and lottery money for teacher salaries.
Create Custodial Teams for heavy cleaning. Instead of multiple full time employees at every location utilize teams on a rotation. Also could use EC or VR students to assist the custodian during the day.
Set up a program at each school for professionals to volunteer or offer their services.
Set up maintenance days at each school to save trips for one repair.
Eliminate duplication in administration
We do not need multiple layers of supervision for instructional and EC programs.
Coaching supplements from athletic fees
Contract out payroll and other services
Increase sales tax
Increase Sales Tax - 8%
$4,000,000.00
Shift lottery $ to use in general fund
$850,000.00
Reinstate Buy-in-Burke
Request $1 million from county capital fund balance
$1,000,000.00
County funds from courthouse
$700,000.00
Use Lottery money
$900,000.00
Increase Sales Tax - .5%
$2,000,000.00
Increase Property Tax - 3 cents
$2,000,000.00
Future - raise property tax - earmark for schoools
Charge Transfer Fees or eliminate transfers
Raise sales tax 1 cent
$4,000,000.00
Increase $5 Child Daycare
$500,000.00
Renting facilities
Have an auction/sell used items
Pursue athletic costs
Charge Transfer Fees
$390,000.00
$300-$500/student, 1300 students
Online program for home schoolers
Include home schoolers on athletic fees
Sell Mt. View to New Dimensions
Charge Transfer Fees
$500/student
$100,000.00
Ask each school to give a percentage to make up the difference
Write/apply for grants
Ask for private donations from big businesses/corporations
Sell Mountain View, College Street, all vacant buildings, including mobile units
$6,000,000.00
Charge Transfer Fees
$650,000.00
$500/child, 1300 students
Media advertising on buses, gym floors, baseball, football fields.
$2,000,000.00
Charge Transfer Fees
$300-500/student
Outreach to homeschoolers (even 1/2 day)
$4,000,000.00
Sell naming rights to sports fields and gyms
Have companies sponsor buses
$500,000.00
County-wide fundraiser
Sell vacant school building
$400,000.00
Charge Transfer Fees
$750/student
$10,000.00
In-house county transfers, 500 students
Charge athletics for facility use (practices)
$10,000.00
Charge $25 cell phone fee - if cell phones are confiscated then parents pay to pick it up - schools in other states do this.
County-wide fundraisers
$5000/school
$135,000.00
Property Tax 3.2 cents
$2,000,000.00
Sell Mountain View Elementary
$1,000,000.00
Charge Transfer Fees
$75,000.00
$100/student, BCPS Employees exempted
Sales tax - earmark 1 cent for public schools
PTA/PTO give X dollars per student
Raise middle school athletic ticket prices and reduct money given to them for athletics
Advertising - company called School Media - getting companies to advertise on school buses, fields, gyms. Could approximately gain $2 Million/year
$2,000,000.00
Charge Transfer Fees
$400,000.00
Application fee - $100; Out of district fee - $1000/year
Auction old technology
$25,000.00
Involve home schoolers (enough to count in #'s)
$2,000,000.00
Voluntary tax of $100 per family
Sell or lease Mountain View Elementary and other property (mobile classrooms, other property)
$400,000.00
Rent rooms in closed schools like Pilot Mountain School which has become a mini-mall or restaurant
Sell buildings to parochial schools (St. Charles would like a school building)
Ask church to sponsor a school
Parking Sticker (increase)
$2,000.00
Transcript fees (after 2 free - double fee)
$10,000.00
Increase rental fees (occup. therapy)
$100,000.00
ATM revenue (independent)
$50,000.00
Original Source - http://www.burke.k12.nc.us/pages/budgetworkshop.aspx
from April 14, 2011
On Thursday, 4/14/2011, the BCPS Board of Education held an open budgetary work session. During this session, the public was invited to share their input with the Board regarding the budget for 2011-2012. After a brief introduction in the auditorium, the public divided into 15 groups, each led by a group facilitator. The groups were given the task of finding $12 Million in order to "balance" the budget for the 2011-2012 school year. Board of Education members moved from group to group to hear the concerns of the citizens. After the group sessions ended, the group worksheets were collected as well as any individual worksheets that members of the public wanted to share.
The budget worksheets submitted from the budget workshop on April 14, 2011 (held at 6 pm at PHS) have been scanned and are downloadable. Click the the link below to view the submitted forms.
Budget Worksheets with a colored background represent group/room responses.
Budget Worksheets with a white background represent individual responses, unless otherwise noted.
All ideas have been compiled below and shown in the Budget Worksheet Summary of Ideas. Ideas that were listed multiple times in the worksheets have only been listed once (unless there was a unique difference among the suggestions). Be sure to use the link on the toolbar (1-100 >) to look at additional pages of information.
Note: the fund balance used in this workshop was the balance as of July 1, 2010.
As you review these documents, keep in mind that these notes and ideas were collected in "brainstorming" sessions and that participants did not have the opportunity to review and edit their responses.
4-11-2011 ALL Financial Options - Everyone.pdf
http://docs.google.com/document/d/12XsMDlovPawB7k9uWT5IacJ0QZu_RzrFKCNVvlUxzSU/edit?hl=en
Make sure teams carpool to schools. We need to make sure multiple vehicles are not used unless absolute necessary.
Cut Certified Supplements (25%)
$553,191.00
Eliminate expenditures for consultants
Satellite stations for maintenance & buses
Look at teachers with action plans in place first (even before non-tenured)
Summer staffing?
Technology spending?
Choose education software more carefully (Study Island, Classcape, materials, etc.)
Cut Certified Positions, Retirees, and Attrition (120)
$6,000,000.00
Cut supplements for administrators
$114,000.00
Why do we increase supplements for administrators for next year
Cut 34 classified positions
$1,000,000.00
50 retired folks
$2,500,000.00
Layoff - Performance based cuts plus principals' input
Cut 1 HR director - questions about why there are 2
$50,000.00
Cut all cell phones
$14,000.00
Cut all mobile units
Close schools at 5:00 pm
10% pay cut with a furlough
Cut maintenance positions
Look at taking a 5% to 10% pay cut across board, including the central office.
Cut purchase of software (Streamline)
$1,000,000.00
Pay freeze at CO and administrative level
Refinance loans at a lower rate
$5,000,000.00
Encouragement incentive for 30+ years retirees
Cut EC positions at CO level
$350,000.00
Sharing custodial staff among schools
Cut Central Office Postage
$124,000.00
Cut WP Symphonies
$5,000.00
Eliminate Energy Administrator
$100,000.00
Eliminate Behavior Specialists
$250,000.00
10% cut in Central Office administrative staff
$150,000.00
50 positions lost due to attrition
$2,500,000.00
Cut BOE Staff Development and travel allotment
$150,000.00
Cut software - just go to Apex
$40,000.00
Continue w/substitute savings - use for salaries
Cut 50 certified positions
$2,500,000.00
Cut Central Office staff supplements
Cut 50 classified positions
$1,500,000.00
Salary for energy savings position, eliminate redundant positions
Attrition with hiring freeze
$3,200,000.00
Eliminate online programs
$500,000.00
Cut Strategic Alliance Manager
$30,000.00
Reduce 54 positions based on 2 years low evaluations
$2,700,000.00
Cut 1 HR Director
$90,000.00
Combine Head Custodian/Safety manager
$50,000.00
Cut 12 instructional coaches
$600,000.00
Cut purchase of Library books for one year
$100,000.00
5 year suspension middle school sports (rent school facilities to recration leagues - possible revenue)
$50,000.00
Use Google Apps - McDowell saved $400,000
$400,000.00
Eliminate administrative staff blackberries/data plan
$5,000.00
Cut Staff Development
$100,000.00
Cut 100% supplements
$2,169,375.00
Reduce subs line item to $500,000
$240,000.00
Cut 100% Administrative bonuses
$300,000.00
Cut 100% non-certified supplements
$739,610.00
1/4 reduction in supplement (cut adm)
$115,000.00
Cut academic coaches and subject area
$500,000.00
No tile or painting
Cut how ever many certified and classified positions it takes to balance the budget
Cut low performing teachers (54)
$2,700,000.00
Cut Driver's Education
Cut supplements
$1,700,000.00
Cut instructional coaches (7) 2 per school
$350,000.00
Eliminate vehicles used for personal use
Eliminate Staff Development
Cut 80 certified positions
$4,000,000.00
(no losses of these assuming retirement)
Cut 15 classified positions
$500,000.00
Cut funding for athletic departments - in other states, students pay 100% of their expenditures
Cut supplements for non-certified personnel
$739,610.00
Retire plus 10 teachers - attrition
$4,000,000.00
Cut 70 certified positions
$3,500,000.00
Cut 12 classified positions
Cut 70 classified positions
$2,100,000.00
Cut mileage
Cut/Reduce certified supplements (50%)
$1,084,688.00
Cut Instructional Coaches
Cut/Reduce non-certified supplements (50%)
$369,805.00
Cut custodial - teachers may be willing to clean their own classrooms
Cut 100 certified positions
$5,000,000.00
Temporarily eliminate textbook funds
Cut or reduce board compensations. Eliminate professional development and other allotments.
Cut 10% pay for all administrative offices/central office administration
Reduction in guidance counselors (4)
$200,000.00
Do not replace Retirees (50)
$2,500,000.00
Dismiss staff that have been on Action Plan for 2+ years (estimate 20? countywide)
$1,000,000.00
Cut coaching supplements
Cut 40 certified positions
$2,000,000.00
Cut 30 classified positions
$1,000,000.00
Cut Safety Officer positions
Cut behavioral specialists
Eliminate IT positions
Cut/Reduce Certified and Non-Certified Supplements
$2,000,000.00
(*only if used for teaching positions)
Combine NC WISE and Secretary positions
Cut #87, #78 staff development
$16,611.00
Cut #134 travel
$5,000.00
Cut #78 Cultural Arts
$5,000.00
Cut Principal and Assistant Principal supplement (decrease)
$73,000.00
Reduce substitute allotment
Eliminate staff development (elementary) teachers and Adm.
$15,000.00
Eliminate consulting fees
$100,000.00
Reduce maintenance crossovers (duplication)
$50,000.00
Suspend facility renovations unless absolute necessary.
No reduction in supplements - remain the same
Cut Payables staff
Reconsider consolidations
$500,000 per school
$500,000.00
Athletics - make county conference/shorter drives
Use $3 million from fund balance
$3,000,000.00
Alternate calendar/school day
$900,000.00
Limit non-conference games
BIO Diesel/transportation
Maintenance - look at more consistency & conservation
Use at least some of the fund balance
Busing radius/under 5 miles, provide own transportation
Use Fund Balance
$1,000,000.00
Consolidate schools (do not close/move Glen Alpine or Hallyburton)
$2,000,000.00
Recommend Retirement (buy-out)
Follow basic bussing requirements (investigate reductions)
$50,000.00
Transportation - athletics - combine teams on buses - efficiency of bus routes
Allow CTE to support maintenance
Redistrict (redraw lines)
Consider creating magnet schools (no transportation or meals)
Close Family Connections in the summer
Try to get County Commission to fund more for the school system
Do not replace Family Connections Parents As Teachers director who is retiring in July
Consolidation of 4 original schools named
$2,000,000.00
Consolidate high school class size - to eliminate classified positions
Fundraiser - Like United Way where people can choose to earmark donation to school fund
Consolidation of bus routes in order to do away with 2nd load routes being eliminated
Equitable distribution of materials and money across all schools
Reconsider consolidation of 6 schools (not Draughn)
$3,000,000.00
Eliminate Library book fund for 1 year
$500,000.00
Consolidate FHES and CES into WJMS
$1,000,000.00
Decentralize maintenance - let principals do it
Can bus routes be contracted out? Redistricting to make transporation more efficient.
Consolidate Glen Alpine to WA Young and Oak Hill
$500,000.00
Overwhelming support for consolidation this year
$3,500,000.00
Consolidate Rutherford College Elementary to Valdese
$500,000.00
Consolidate Icard to Hildebran and Ray Childers
$500,000.00
Consolidate 2 schools
$2,000,000.00
Use Fund Balance
$2,000,000.00
4 day week for summer staff
$50,000.00
Consolidate Rutherford College
$500,000.00
Change calendar to 162 days with extended school days like Wilkes County
$750,000.00
Hybrid school year (see attached Wilkes County info)
$1,000,000.00
Do not use fund balance
Open bidding for TP (toilet paper) and other supplies
Give sports back to the community
Extend day by 45 minutes - only go 162 days (future)
$750,000.00
Contract maintenance
Return to consolidation plan (5) leave Hallyburton due to safety/security
$2,500,000.00
Consolidate 3-6 schools
$3,000,000.00
Put maintenance personnel in high schools to cover high school and surrounding schools
Change calendar to save over Spring Break
Pursue athletic costs
Redistrict to get true enrollment for each school
Solar energy projects (completely funded through private companies)
Outsource food, transportation, and custodial services
Eliminate Hallyburton Academy
Offer incentive to 25 to 27 years to retire
Eliminate Daycare at High Schools
$20,000.00
Redistricting to reduce mobile units
$1,000,000.00
Internet service through Google
Naming rights to stadium and auditorium over a 5 year contract (High School)
$100,000.00
Naming rights to stadium and auditorium (Middle School)
$50,000.00
Hybrid School Calendar
$5,000,000.00
Consider consolidation in a timely manner
Convert our fund balance to offset deficit to save as many teachers as possible.
Convert some of our capital balance and lottery money for teacher salaries.
Create Custodial Teams for heavy cleaning. Instead of multiple full time employees at every location utilize teams on a rotation. Also could use EC or VR students to assist the custodian during the day.
Set up a program at each school for professionals to volunteer or offer their services.
Set up maintenance days at each school to save trips for one repair.
Eliminate duplication in administration
We do not need multiple layers of supervision for instructional and EC programs.
Coaching supplements from athletic fees
Contract out payroll and other services
Increase sales tax
Increase Sales Tax - 8%
$4,000,000.00
Shift lottery $ to use in general fund
$850,000.00
Reinstate Buy-in-Burke
Request $1 million from county capital fund balance
$1,000,000.00
County funds from courthouse
$700,000.00
Use Lottery money
$900,000.00
Increase Sales Tax - .5%
$2,000,000.00
Increase Property Tax - 3 cents
$2,000,000.00
Future - raise property tax - earmark for schoools
Charge Transfer Fees or eliminate transfers
Raise sales tax 1 cent
$4,000,000.00
Increase $5 Child Daycare
$500,000.00
Renting facilities
Have an auction/sell used items
Pursue athletic costs
Charge Transfer Fees
$390,000.00
$300-$500/student, 1300 students
Online program for home schoolers
Include home schoolers on athletic fees
Sell Mt. View to New Dimensions
Charge Transfer Fees
$500/student
$100,000.00
Ask each school to give a percentage to make up the difference
Write/apply for grants
Ask for private donations from big businesses/corporations
Sell Mountain View, College Street, all vacant buildings, including mobile units
$6,000,000.00
Charge Transfer Fees
$650,000.00
$500/child, 1300 students
Media advertising on buses, gym floors, baseball, football fields.
$2,000,000.00
Charge Transfer Fees
$300-500/student
Outreach to homeschoolers (even 1/2 day)
$4,000,000.00
Sell naming rights to sports fields and gyms
Have companies sponsor buses
$500,000.00
County-wide fundraiser
Sell vacant school building
$400,000.00
Charge Transfer Fees
$750/student
$10,000.00
In-house county transfers, 500 students
Charge athletics for facility use (practices)
$10,000.00
Charge $25 cell phone fee - if cell phones are confiscated then parents pay to pick it up - schools in other states do this.
County-wide fundraisers
$5000/school
$135,000.00
Property Tax 3.2 cents
$2,000,000.00
Sell Mountain View Elementary
$1,000,000.00
Charge Transfer Fees
$75,000.00
$100/student, BCPS Employees exempted
Sales tax - earmark 1 cent for public schools
PTA/PTO give X dollars per student
Raise middle school athletic ticket prices and reduct money given to them for athletics
Advertising - company called School Media - getting companies to advertise on school buses, fields, gyms. Could approximately gain $2 Million/year
$2,000,000.00
Charge Transfer Fees
$400,000.00
Application fee - $100; Out of district fee - $1000/year
Auction old technology
$25,000.00
Involve home schoolers (enough to count in #'s)
$2,000,000.00
Voluntary tax of $100 per family
Sell or lease Mountain View Elementary and other property (mobile classrooms, other property)
$400,000.00
Rent rooms in closed schools like Pilot Mountain School which has become a mini-mall or restaurant
Sell buildings to parochial schools (St. Charles would like a school building)
Ask church to sponsor a school
Parking Sticker (increase)
$2,000.00
Transcript fees (after 2 free - double fee)
$10,000.00
Increase rental fees (occup. therapy)
$100,000.00
ATM revenue (independent)
$50,000.00
Original Source - http://www.burke.k12.nc.us/pages/budgetworkshop.aspx
