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Spotsylvania school superintendent presents budget Date published: 1/20/2010
BY PAMELA GOULD
Spotsylvania School Superintendent Jerry Hill eliminated 131 positions, plus freshman and middle school sports in his fiscal 2011 budget proposal announced last night.
Those cuts are being made to trim $14.7 million from the next budget. That $14.7 million is calculated based on a $14.2 million reduction in state revenue, a $3.6 million increase in federal revenue and a $4.3 million increase in the cost of health-insurance premiums, prescription premiums, state retirement costs and group life insurance. The cut presumes the school division receives the same funding from the county as it is getting this fiscal year.
Hill’s proposal calls for a fiscal 2011 operating budget of $216 million.
Hill is taking a pay cut by including himself among top administrators who will take a three-day furlough. He is also forgoing three days of his annual leave.
The savings from Hill’s pay cut and the three-day furloughs of all assistant superintendents, directors and principals produces a savings of $75,173 from their salaries.
Hill is the highest-paid local government manager in the Fredericksburg region with an annual salary of $175,500 and a total compensation package of $234,000. He also plans to retire in June 2011, taking advantage of the retirement program the school division implemented last school year to save money and save positions.
In addition to eliminating 131 positions, Hill is calling for 12 people to take pay cuts. That will come by reducing four career and technical education educators’ contracts to 10.5 months, three Advanced Placement teachers’ contracts to 11 months, four Governor’s School employees’ contracts to 10.5 months and one instructional coordinator contract to 11 months.
The school division cut 132 positions in the last budget cycle, reducing staffing by 263 positions over two years. The school division would have 3,066 employees under Hill’s proposal.
“This is very painful,” Hill told the School Board last night. “Instead of adding programs ... I’m trying to figure out how to nip it and tuck it to save millions.”
The school division’s meeting room was packed last night, with people standing along the edge of the room.
Two members of the county’s Board of Supervisors—Gary Skinner and Jerry Logan—were among those present.
Read more stories about Spotsylvania Date published: 1/20/2010
Why not go to a Pay to Play system for the sports teams. Yes Parks n rec have a system but the instruction they get is nothing like a school coach gives.. Freshman baseball players in practice you can tell the P&R players from other more advanced league players.
we don't need middle school sports, we have a wonderful, very affordable parks and rec program where kids can get all the "leadership", "team building", and excercise. THere are no cuts on the teams, everyone gets good playing time. There is no reason to spend the hundreds of thousands of dollars on middle school sports. We didn't have them when I grew up, why do they need them now?
What budget constraints are SOL mandates causing on local school budgets and funding? Do we need to stop looking at the short term effect of ineffective management and look to long-term sound management - taking responsibility for educating OUR kids. i.e., does it cost the same to conduct a half-day of instruction as it does a full day? Brand new facility across from Massaponax HS needed? Is the superintendent position more important than the teacher, janitor, school bus driver, coach? I don't think so
I would rather see it go to maintaining more instructional and instructional support positions than sports for MS. those kids willl get their chance at sports in HS.
for a second that we could collect the 200k to keep athletics in the MS and HS by trimming some of the administrative load (see the SB organizational chart) as well as some of the 'specialist' positions 2 @ 187K as a much more reasonable approach ... then we must agree to disagree.
my wife also teaches in spotsy county, so as your husband (if you have one) can attest, i get an earful almost nightly.
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