| School levy renewal on ballot |
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| Wednesday, 28 October 2009 | |
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A 10-year, $6 million levy approved in 1999 expires this year, and so, Anoka-Hennepin School District School Board members are asking voters to approve an eight-year levy renewal. Proposed reduction plan (should November referendum levy fail) Reductions in non-instructional areas (Central Services):
• Close an additional elementary school...................................................$500,000 • Eliminate elementary recess paraprofessionals......................................$658,800 • Freeze all supply budgets.......................................................................$300,000 • Eliminate some high school activities or raise fees................................$250,000 • Increase efficiencies in Buildings and Grounds Department....................$50,000 • Renegotiate Central Services contracts, adjust service fees, reorganize staff.......................................................$170,000 • Close district printshop...........................................................................$200,000 • Increase chargebacks to Community Education Department..................$50,000 • Reconfigure plans for students needing accommodations under section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act..............................................$72,800 • Eliminate non-staff allocation for elementary talent development........ $100,000 Total in non-instructional areas : $2,351,600 Reductions in instructional areas: • Increase elementary school staffing ratio, eliminating 26 teachers and increasing average class size to 31 students with highs of 37 students in grades four and five.................................................$1,352,032 • Increase the middle school staffing ratio, eliminating 32 teachers and increasing average class size in core courses to 30 students with highs of 38 in core courses..........................................................$1,671,097 • Increase the high school staffing ratio, eliminating 33 teachers and increasing class size in core courses to 34 students with highs of 42 in some core courses.................................................$1,713,694 • Eliminate specialty teacher positions for one elementary special area (art or music or physical education but not media), eliminating 25 teachers and requiring classroom teachers to teach the special area........................................................................$800,000 • Reduce staffing for career and technical programs, eliminating 2.5 teaching positions and reducing career and technical program offerings....................................................................$130,000 Total in instructional areas: $5,666,823 REDUCTIONS GRAND TOTAL: $8,018,423
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