Budget proposals: Vote on 6/21!

[Jean Moreland]

Dear PS84 Families,

Tomorrow, June 21st at 6:00 pm is the last PTA meeting of the year and it will include an important vote to approve next year's budget.  This includes decisions about arts and science funding, Teaching Assistants, library and more.  Please come and make your voice heard!   See below for an overview of the budget proposals that will be presented at the meeting. We have also included an attachment showing a breakdown of income and expenses for each option.  

 Budget Committee Proposals for 2011-2012 School Year

 

Overview:

 

·        In the 2011-12 school year,  the PTA is conservatively planned to generate about $100,000 of funds after event expenses.  This does not include the money used to fund Teaching Assistants, which is a special grant from an outside donor. This year (2010-11) we raised approximately $110,000, which included $12,500 of specially raised funds for a science TA (which must be used towards science).

Decision Needed

·        Our TA grand funding will end AFTER the 11-12 year, and we as a group need to decide how best to spend the money generated. Currently TAs for the K and 1^st grade classes cost about $160,000 per year. We could scale back working hours of TAs and probably get by with 4 TA's (1/2 time in each class) for a cost of about $80,000/year. We have saved close to $100,000 towards the TA funds during the last few years. We do NOT currently generate enough funding in a single year to cover full-time TA costs, or even 1/2 time TAs if we wish to fund other programs as well.  Therefore, we need a new solution. We, of the budget committee, have met and propose two options for vote by the PTA general population:

1.       Project Focus Budget: We can continue to fully sponsor programs such as science field trips, a librarian and lunch room aids while continuing to substantially assist the school in funding programs such as peace games and project arts. If this option is chosen, we would still be able to save approximately $40K towards the funding of future TAs.

2.      TA Saving Focus Budget: Alternatively we can scale back spending on these types of programs while saving closer to $75K towards future TA funding. 

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Jean Moreland

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