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APPROPRIATION COMMITTEE 4th REPORT, April 28, 2007, TO 2007 ATM <br />Gains and Losses in Full-Time-Equivalent Staffing FY2008 Over FY2007: <br />Type of Staffing Gain/Loss Number of FTEs <br />(a) Existing FTEs: at-risk on override 41.79 <br />(b) New FTEs: at-risk on override 14.70 <br />(c) New FTEs: not at-risk on override 25.63 <br />Override Scenarios -these are NOT simple totals of the items <br />above (see formulas) <br />Net FTE (loss)/gain over FY2007 if override passes <br /> 40.33 <br />Formula: b + c <br />Net FTE (loss)/gain over FY2007 if override fails <br /> (16.16) <br />Formula: c - a <br />CT,A~~ ~T7,F <br />During the budget process, the School Committee was presented with a proposal to reduce its budget by <br />moving students from one elementary school to another so that more classes would exceed the School <br />Committee's "preferred" number of students. This would minimize the number of classroom teachers <br />required at the elementary schools in the current year. The recently adopted redistricting plan for FY2008 <br />more equally balances the number of students across the elementary schools, but does not go so far as to <br />balance the numbers of students in individual classrooms. Implementation of the proposal to minimize the <br />number of classrooms would: 1) result, on average, in larger classes because the decades-old class-size <br />policies and procedures yield some classes with fewer than the "preferred" number of students, 2) require <br />that students in specific grades and schools be made to attend other schools beyond the changes from the <br />recent redistricting, and 3) result in some classrooms having sizes above the "maximum" as students <br />move into and out of the elementary school districts after June. The School Committee considered the <br />proposal, but did not adopt it. They did not want to increase class size nor did they want to go beyond the <br />redistricting procedure in moving students to different schools. Alternative ways of controlling class <br />sizes, such as returning to the use of multi-grade classrooms were also considered and rejected because <br />principals feel multi-grade classrooms are no longer viable due to different State curriculum frameworks <br />for different grades. <br />The at-risk list includes 2 additional "unallocated" K-5 teachers who will be used to create two additional <br />classrooms and thus reduce class size in two grades/schools. These positions usually do not get assigned <br />to a school or grade until August when the starting enrollment is better known. Many people move into <br />Town over the summer, thus new students register shortly before school begins. This occurs across all the <br />school districts and frequently in the school districts that have rental housing. For example, the Estabrook <br />School district includes the Katahdin Woods rental units. Visiting researchers and professors, many of <br />them from foreign countries, rent at Katahdin while they work in the area. So not only do we have new <br />students registering over the summer, many of these students have limited English language skills and <br />need assistance from the English Language Learners (ELL) department. <br />ENERGY <br />The school capital expenditures being requested under Article 34 will fund, among other projects, five <br />projects that can be implemented quickly and once properly completed will save energy thus reducing <br />operating costs. The School Committee, with the concurrence of the Capital Expenditures Committee and <br />this Committee, proposed that some of these projects be funded with the projected energy savings. For <br />FY2008, to fund short-term borrowing costs for these projects, $18,200 has been transferred from the <br />Page 7 of 13 <br />
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