President Mark McConn called the meeting to order at 7:15 p.m.

Council Members:

Bob Lerch – Rocky Run

Mark McConn – President, Bull Run

Jeff Parnes – 1st Vice President, Chantilly Highlands

Presenters:

Kristen Michael, Director, Office of Budget Services, FCPS

Ted Velkoff, At-large FCSB Member

• Filling teacher vacancies -
  • School system stops hiring to fill current year vacancies in February.
  • Substitute teachers are used until the end of the school term
• The FCPS advertised school budget is available on the school's website
  • The Fairfax County School Board adopted the FY 2013 Advertised Budget at its February 9 regular business meeting. The Board also authorized a limited scope boundary study for Freedom Hill and Lemon Road Elementary Schools, authorized an 8-classroom building addition at Lemon Road Elementary, and directed the Superintendent to present a recommendation for an expanded scope of an additional boundary for consideration no later than spring 2014.
  • Advertised Budget
    • Advertised Budget Presentation (26 pages)
    • Advertised Budget Brochure (4 pages)
    • Responses to budget questions are available at http://www.fcps.edu/fs/budget/questions.shtml
    • Detailed budgets for the current and previous years are available at http://www.fcps.edu/fs/budget/documents/detailed/index.shtml
• FCPS student achievement:
  • Standards of Learning pass rate: 92%
  • The school system is closing gaps and raising the bar - minority students are lessoning the gap
  • the percentage of students opting for Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate programs is increasing
  • SAT scores were 1664 in 2009 and 1654 in 2010, the only locality with higher scores is the City of Falls Church
• FCPS student composition -
  • Total student enrollment: 181608
  • 7.8% are enrolled in the English for students of other languages (ESOL) program
  • 24% are eligible for free or reduced meals
• FCPS staff composition - there are 23520 employees, of which 92.9% are school based.
• Budget breakout
  • Programs: 84%
  • Training: 5.4%
  • Facility management: 4.2%
  • General Support: 4.5%
• Expenditures as a percentage of Budget: 88.1%
  • Pay - Salary: 62%
  • Pay - Benefits: 26%
  • Logistics: 11.9%
• New positions: 743
  • Instruction Positions are assigned on a per pupil ratio
  • Facility Support positions are based on both a per pupil ratio and a facility square footage
  • $4.3 allocated to schools with achievement gaps
• Two new Schools:
  • Lacy in Annandale - 13 new positions
  • South County Middle School is spinning off from South County Secondary School
• Growth:
  • FY 13 will see 3979 more students with 677 new positions
  • Future growth will be seen in Tysons Corner and along the Rt 1 corridor
• Market rate adjustment of 2% included in budget request
  • Includes step adjustment
  • Custodial market rate adjustment
• Advertised budget
  • Adds 20 field custodial positions to 13 current positions which are used to fill in for vacancies
  • Eliminates athletic fees (at a cost of $1.7 million)
  • Includes projected $24.9 million in state aid
  • Includes loss of $21.3 million from federal government stimulus funding
• Comparisons:
  • Fairfax County - $12.8K per student
  • Montgomery County - $14.7K per student
  • Arlington County - $18K per student
• Next steps:
  • April - Funding from County and state determined
  • May - Revised Budget proposed and approved

The meeting was adjourned at 8:45 p.m.

Respectively submitted by,

Jeffrey Parnes
1st Vice President
Sully District Council