CUTS PROPOSED BY Superintendent Raymond

CUTS PROPOSED BY SUPERINTENDENT RAYMOND:

•        Eliminating music teachers

·         Eliminating financial support of sports, cheerleading, drama, marching band, etc.

·         Eliminating home-to-school transportation

·         Eliminating middle and high school librarians and reducing library funding

·         Increasing class sizes to contract maximums

·         Reducing custodial staff by 50 percent

·         Reducing Regional Occupational Program funding by 5 percent

·         Reducing GATE funding by 5 percent

•         Reducing high school and middle school assistant principal positions by 50 percent

·         Reducing the district’s maintenance staff by 20 percent

·         Reducing Central Office operating budgets and contracted services

·         Implementing five furlough days for unrepresented staff

·         Reducing additional Central Office staff

·         Freezing step-and-column increases for all unrepresented employees

·         Shifting set-aside funds earmarked for unfunded liability into the General Fund

·         Eliminating the deferred maintenance fund

·         Charging PARS payments to the Retirement Benefits Fund

·         Reducing school site plant managers by 50 percent

·         Eliminating all Adult Education except those programs that are self-supporting

·         Eliminating counseling positions not funded by categorical money