Dear Everyone Learning @ ARPS:
The outline for this evening's Regional School Committee meeting is below. In addition to reviewing the Region Budget including the cuts to reach the 1% increase target, I will review the list of the Amherst Elementary cuts. The discussion for the Elementary cuts will be at next week's Amherst meeting.
We will post all of these documents on the website as soon as possible.
I know this is late notification of what will be reviewed specifically. Hopefully the documents being posted will be of help to you as you follow the budget process.
Jere Hochman
Memo to: Regional School Committee
From: Jere Hochman
Date: February 6, 2007
The budget presentation this evening includes:
A review of:
Course additions, deletions, and modifications for the High School
The process as we proceed from data to budget assumptions to identifying adds, cuts, and changes to building a budget
Revenue and Expenditure assumptions and the budget increase "target"
The specific list of cuts: potential savings, must adds and adds, additional adds (not budgeted), and other items reviewed
A narrative of cuts and effects in schools for certain items.
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Overview
Budget Assumptions: Revenue and Expenditures
Parameters and "The Horizon"
Goals, Progress, and Pressure Points
Conservative Assumptions
Principles
Cuts and Changes
(Identify "bring backs")
Not cut - and why
Fixed and Known Costs
Must Adds
Adds
Proposed Adds and Restorations
Building the Budget
Communications and Monitoring
Final Budget