| Service and other FY04 Budget Adjustments after the Override Loss | FY04 Budget Adjustments | Existing in FY03 | Detail only for Service Reductions in FY04 | ||||
| Amount | Yes, No, etc. | Amount | FTE | Overtime or Other Personnel | Expense | Notes | |
| Summary of Adjustments by Category | Note: As part of balancing Lexington's FY04 budget, the School System had to close a $5.668M gap. To do that, the Superintendent and the School Committee cut new program proposals, made cuts in existing programs/positions, left enrollment-driven positions unfilled, and raised fees. System employees participated by helping to reduce the cost of employee benefits. The figures summarize how much each category contributed to closing the gap. | ||||||
| Instruction/Maintenance/Support Reductions from FY03 to FY04 | 2,404,400 | Yes | |||||
| Unmet enrollment-driven needs | 350,000 | Enrollment-driven | |||||
| Savings---Primarily Benefit/Salary Cost Reductions | 1,104,000 | Savings | |||||
| New Revenue---Primarily Increased Student Fees and Rental Fees | 308,600 | New Revenue | |||||
| Subtotal | 4,167,000 | ||||||
| Service Enhancements for FY04 Not Implemented | 1,381,000 | No | |||||
| Positions Unfilled in FY03 Remaining Unfilled in FY04 | 120,000 | No, existed in FY02 | |||||
| Summary Totals | 5,668,000 | ||||||
| Detail | |||||||
| Items Reduced from Proposed FY04 Budget Before Override | |||||||
| Delay funding Full Day Kindergarten | 800,000 | No | |||||
| Don't fill Director of Secondary Education | 100,000 | No, existed in FY02 | |||||
| Don't fund Ops Manager/Scheduler | 55,000 | No | |||||
| Don't fund .5 FTE Assistant Principal | 36,000 | No | |||||
| Don't fill Coordinator of Library Media | 75,000 | Yes | 75,000 | 1.00 | |||
| Don't fill 4.0 FTE at elementary | 200,000 | Enrollment-driven | |||||
| Reduce Electricity | 40,000 | Savings | |||||
| Reduce Crossing guard expenses | 5,000 | Yes | 5,000 | 5,000 | |||
| Reorganize department head model | 75,000 | Yes | 75,000 | 75,000 | |||
| LEA Contribution in lieu of President teaching a class | 7,600 | New Revenue | |||||
| Reduce CO Administrators' COLA by .5% | 4,000 | Savings | |||||
| Reduce Administrators' COLA by .5% | 10,000 | Savings | |||||
| Reduce custodial overtime | 100,000 | Yes | 100,000 | 100,000 | |||
| Increase rental and user fees | 50,000 | New Revenue | |||||
| Reduce tutors | 50,000 | Yes | 50,000 | 50,000 | |||
| Reduce school-based Initiatives(INCREASED FROM $20,000) | 40,000 | Yes | 40,000 | 40,000 | |||
| Reduce nurse/secretaries substitute hours | 6,400 | Yes | 6,400 | 6,400 | |||
| Eliminate 1.0 FTE aide | 25,000 | Yes | 25,000 | 25,000 | |||
| Reduce secretarial staff* | 30,000 | Yes | 30,000 | 1.00 | |||
| Reduce one custodian* | 30,000 | Yes | 30,000 | 1.00 | |||
| Reduce building supplies at high school | 17,500 | Yes | 17,500 | 17,500 | |||
| Increase rental fees | 55,000 | New Revenue | |||||
| Reduce half of mentoring and induction program | 30,000 | No | |||||
| Reorganize TBE/ESL Program | 35,000 | Yes | 35,000 | 1.00 | |||
| Eliminate MS building repairs | 30,000 | Yes | 30,000 | 30,000 | |||
| Eliminate library equipment | 34,000 | Yes | 34,000 | 34,000 | |||
| Raise bus fees (instead of reducing one bus) | 47,500 | New Revenue | |||||
| Reduce EL building maintenance | 10,000 | Yes | 10,000 | 10,000 | |||
| Reduce professional development | 48,000 | Yes | 48,000 | 48,000 | |||
| Reduce elementary maintenance | 2,000 | Yes | 2,000 | 2,000 | |||
| Subtotal Items Removed from Budget before Override | 2,048,000 | 612,900 | 4.00 | 250,000 | 192,900 | ||
| Lost in Override | |||||||
| Reduce art, music and physical ed. to 45 mins. per week per grade at elementary | 225,000 | Yes | 225,000 | 4.50 | Actual 5.65 | ||
| Eliminate 1.0 FTE currently unallocated teacher at elementary level | 50,000 | Yes | 50,000 | 1.00 | |||
| Eliminate 3.0 FTE of existing high school classroom teachers | 165,000 | Yes | 165,000 | 3.00 | |||
| Eliminate 3.0 FTE of existing middle school classroom teachers | 150,000 | Yes | 150,000 | 3.00 | |||
| Eliminate 0.6 FTE nurse | 30,000 | Yes | 30,000 | 0.60 | |||
| Eliminate 3.0 FTE enrollment driven staff | 150,000 | Enrollment-driven | |||||
| Reduce health education by 1.0 FTE at elementary level | 50,000 | Yes | 50,000 | 1.00 | |||
| Reduce 1.5 FTE Elementary assistant principals | 105,000 | Yes | 105,000 | 1.50 | |||
| Eliminate 1.0 FTE SPED support | 65,000 | No | |||||
| Eliminate LHS Dean | 75,000 | Yes | 75,000 | 75,000 | |||
| Do not hire an Evaluation Team Leader at LHS | 65,000 | No | |||||
| Fee based instrumental music | 100,000 | New Revenue | |||||
| Eliminate .5 FTE drama specialist at elementary level | 25,000 | Yes | 25,000 | 0.50 | |||
| Eliminate 5.0 FTE class size/teaching load staffing at LHS | 250,000 | No | |||||
| Reduce Early Childhood/Elementary SPED positions | 75,000 | Yes | 75,000 | 75,000 | |||
| Eliminate K-8 permanent substitutes | 134,000 | Yes | 134,000 | 8.00 | |||
| Reduce athletics | 20,000 | Yes | 20,000 | 20,000 | |||
| RE-organize Transitional Bilingual Education (Chinese)/ESL program | 40,000 | Yes | 40,000 | 1.00 | Actual 0.7 | ||
| Reduce SPED tuition | 80,000 | No | |||||
| Reduce technology support | 50,000 | Yes | 50,000 | 0.50 | 25,000 | Actual 1.0 | |
| Reduce 2.6 FTE custodial staff | 78,000 | Yes | 78,000 | 2.60 | |||
| Eliminate Curriculum & Instruction Initiative | 82,500 | Yes | 82,500 | 82,500 | |||
| Reduce secretarial staff | 30,000 | Yes | 30,000 | 1.00 | |||
| Eliminate training for tech and maintenance staff | 12,000 | Yes | 12,000 | 12,000 | |||
| Reduce 1.7 FTE classroom teachers | 85,000 | Yes | 85,000 | 1.70 | |||
| Reduce supplies, printing, software, administrative computing | 50,000 | Yes | 50,000 | 50,000 | |||
| Increase users' fee | 48,500 | New Revenue | |||||
| Reduce funding for personnel, materials and supplies from Sci. / SS | 20,000 | Yes | 20,000 | 20,000 | |||
| Reduce building and instructional supplies budgets | 80,000 | Yes | 80,000 | 80,000 | |||
| Do not restore 25% of elementary language arts & reading | 20,000 | No, existed in FY02 | |||||
| Reduce building and instructional supplies - middle schools. | 58,000 | Yes | 58,000 | 58,000 | |||
| Reduce elementary building maintenance | 48,000 | Yes | 48,000 | 48,000 | |||
| Eliminate science lab equipment | 34,000 | Yes | 34,000 | 34,000 | |||
| Eliminate building repair budget at high school | 20,000 | Yes | 20,000 | 20,000 | |||
| Subtotal Override Cuts | 2,570,000 | 1,791,500 | 29.90 | 150,000 | 449,500 | ||
| Negotiated Empolyee Benefit Savings | 1,050,000 | Savings | |||||
| Total Cuts, Savings, & Revenue Enhancements | 5,668,000 | 2,404,400 | 33.90 | 400,000 | 642,400 | ||