Among the proposals to close a $68 million budget gap: shuttering schools, increasing class sizes and outsourcing sports.
, the district is spending $5.7 million on district administration and $31 million on district administrative support, which includes payroll, human resources and IT.
Reductions to administration, travel costs and materials across 16 departments could save the district $2.9 million. At a Nov. 15 work session, administrators said they’re still looking into other potential administrative cuts.Administrators are still finalizing their savings estimates from outsourcing hockey, swimming and gymnastics. Most savings would come from no longer having to rent facilities or pay for expensive gymnastics equipment, Johnson said at a Nov. 15 work session.
Starting in fiscal year 2024, initial savings estimates include $225,000 over two years for swimming pool use, $220,000 over two years for ice rink use and $220,500 saved next year on a contract with the Dome sports complex. All of the above cuts – school closures, middle school changes, eliminating IGNITE, outsourcing sports and cutting administrative costs – would save the district $16 million, leaving a remaining $51.6 million deficit, administrators said on Nov. 15.The pupil-to-teacher ratio is a hiring metric that measures the number of students per staff member in a school.
Increasing the ratio by one across all grades would save the district $7 million and require 60 fewer teachers than the district needs now. Increasing it by five would save the district $32 million and require 274 fewer teachers.So far, district administrators haven’t discussed putting fund balance money from this school year — that’s money not spent — toward the deficit, which the district has done in years past.
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