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May 26, 2010 (Recessed Meeting) Page 1948 Three teacher assistants (Includes Benefits) Instructional Supplies Increase in instructional supply allotment $40,000.00 TOTAL $349,596.00 New Building Items are as follows: Custodial services: One custodial for new A.L. Brown wing (Includes Benefits) $29,429.00 Utility increase as follows: Utility increase due to increase in square footage for new A.L. Brown wing $27,850.00 TOTAL $57,279.00 Mr. Crabtree also responded to questions from the Board. Cabarrus County Schools Dr. Barry Shepherd, Cabarrus County Schools (CCS) Superintendent, Wayne Williams, Board of Education Chair, Kelly Kluttz, Director of Finance and numerous other staff members were in attendance to present the CCS FY 2011 budget request totaling $53,828,784.00. Dr. Shepherd presented a PowerPoint presentation which addressed the following information: GCS's funding ranking amongst local, state and federal funds; per pupil expenditures by funding source (FY 08 -09) ; ranking of adjusted property valuations per student, actual effort, ability to pay and relative effort; enrollment growth; ethnicity; elementary school critical facility needs; middle school critical facility needs; high school (and other) critical facility needs; Qualified School Construction Bonds funding; elementary, middle and high school state rankings; SAT scores; 4 -year cohort graduation report; strategic goals and objectives; critical needs; cost reduction measures; budgetary cuts; budget outlook (loss of AARA funds - American Reinvestment & Recovery Act) and budget summary by percentage. CCS staff responded to several questions from the Board. Recess of Meeting The Board took a short break at 4:33 p.m. The meeting reconvened at 5:03 p.m. Department of Social Service (DSS) Ben Rose, DSS Director was present to review the department's FY 2011 budget request totaling $29,811,344.00: The following information was provided to the Board: • Overall proposed budget reduction of 5.88 %. • Potential small reductions in state revenue anticipated. • Continued temporary federal funding to assist with the processing of Food and Nutrition Applications. • Child Care Program will maintain a waiting list to adjust to the reductions in both Subsidy funding and most likely Smart Start funding • Reduction in Administrative Support Funds for Child Care Program (1 %) • Food and Nutrition Caseload expected to increase substantially due to changes in eligibility. Expenditures for benefits expected to increase 25% (federal cost). • State is not funding the 25% match for Permanency Planning allocation, a capped allocation of federal dollars used for providing permanency planning services to children in foster care. Departmental Initiatives: • Reduced overall administrative and operations budget. • Reviewed and reduced several contracts for services. • Eliminated the Administrative Division and reallocated Customer Service Unit to Economic Services. • Implemented the "Little Things" conservation program to reduce utility expense and promote a greener department.