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Ballot Language ONE-HALF CENT SALES SURTAX FOR SCHOOL FACILITIES AND TECHNOLOGY; AND ELIMINATE ONE-QUARTER MILL PROPERTY TAX As the School Board will stop levying the critical needs 0.25 mills property tax in 2013-14 , shall it be allowed to levy a

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Ballot Language

ONE-HALF CENT SALES SURTAX FOR SCHOOL FACILITIES AND TECHNOLOGY; AND ELIMINATE ONE-QUARTER MILL PROPERTY TAX As the School Board will stop levying the critical needs 0.25 mills property tax in 2013-14, shall it be allowed to levy a one-half cent school capital outlay surtax on sales in Brevard County, effective 1/1/13 for a period of 10 years unless property tax assessments return to the 2008-09 level. Proceeds will be used for critical improvements to school facilities and educational technology needs as described in a School Board resolution adopted on 7/10/12. ____________ FOR THE ONE-HALF CENT TAX ____________ AGAINST THE ONE-HALF CENT TAX

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How Efficiently Are We Working?

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Energy Reduction Initiative

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  • $15,300,000

2007-2008

  • $11,600,000

2011-2012

  • 24%

Percentage Saved

To Maximize energy use and reduce expenditures BPS:

  • Turned off the heat during

winter break (even when employees were working)

  • To save $300,000 this

summer, BPS required employees to begin work at 6:30 am

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Insurance Reduction Initiative

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  • $65,000,000

2007-2008

  • $61,800,000

2011-2012

  • 5%

Percentage Saved

Administrative Cost Reductions:

  • Streamline third-party

administration

  • Employee programs eliminated
  • Self-funded staff reductions

BPS Self-Funded Health Plan Cost Reductions

  • Implemented co-insurance
  • Participated in Medicare savings

program

  • Negotiated savings in Pharmacy

Benefit Manager

  • Implemented preferred health

centers

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Efficiencies and Priorities

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  • Rezoned students, changed bus routes, and

closed schools

  • BPS historically ranks 2nd or 3rd in Florida as to

the percentage of dollars spent directly at the school level

  • BPS historically ranks in the lowest 10th

percentile for the cost of student lunches and has raised prices only one time in 19 years

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History of Change in Employee Positions

Actual 2007-08 vs. Proposed 2012-13

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Actual Proposed Positions 2007-08 2012-13 Number Percent Classroom Teachers 4,935.07 4,780.76

  • 154.31
  • 3.1

Instructional Support 456.70 458.80 2.10 0.5 Instructional Assistants 878.02 835.71

  • 42.31
  • 4.8

Support - School-Level 2,713.87 2,355.64

  • 358.23
  • 13.2

Administrators - School-Level 242.00 228.00

  • 14.00
  • 5.8

Support - District-Level 372.19 334.35

  • 37.84
  • 10.2

Administrators - District-Level 50.00 40.00

  • 10.00
  • 20.0

Total 9,647.85 9,033.26

  • 614.59
  • 6.4

Membership 75,235 73,489

  • 1,746
  • 2.3

FTE 73,465.54 71,633.33

  • 1,832.21
  • 2.5

Change

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Are We Working Effectively?

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Supporting Students for

College & Career Readiness

  • Providing opportunities for

students & validation of quality instruction: – BPS pays for and requires every 11th grade student to take the ACT – BPS pays for every international and industry standard curricula and exams (AP, IB & Industry Certifications)

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Here are the Results

  • Juniors outperform state, college-bound peers on the ACT

college entrance exam

– BPS scores above the state average in all areas

  • BPS college-bound students outperform college-bound

students nationally on the SAT

  • Students scoring 3 or higher on Advanced Placement:

– BPS: 63% – State: 47.6% – Global: 59.2%

  • We currently have 2,560 10th -12th grade students enrolled in

a dual enrollment class. – That’s greater than 16% of our students.

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Career Ready

  • BPS offers students authentic

career preparation:

– Career Clusters: business technology, family & consumer sciences, health science, industrial education, marketing , public service, and technology – Career academy themes: engineering, law & public safety, health/wellness/sports medicine, finance, fine arts, education professions, and environmental studies

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Career Ready

Career preparation results:

  • 60% of middle and high

school students enrolled in

  • ne or more career classes
  • 70% of students passed their

industry certification

  • Over 200 career & technical

education students earned postsecondary degree or certification from Brevard Community College through dual enrollment

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Performing Arts

  • BPS offers a comprehensive

arts programming for k-12

  • There are 72 high school
  • fferings throughout the

district

  • Of the 21 Florida Music

Demonstration Schools, 19 are in Brevard

  • 15 Brevard schools have

received the Excellence in Visual Arts Award from the Brevard Cultural Alliance

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Excellence as the Standard

  • Future Problem Solvers: 15

BPS teams/individuals placed in the top 10 in their respective competitions at international competition

  • Eau Gallie High School’s Air

force, JROTC was first in leadership and academic bowl championship in Washington, DC

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Excellence as the Standard

  • Four out of eight BPS

robotics teams qualified for world championships

– Pink team won second in the world

  • Merritt Island High

School is one of only two high schools in the nation chosen to design a satellite to fly on a NASA expendable launch vehicle

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BPS serves 2.7% of Florida’s Students But in 2012 We Had:

  • 5.9% of Florida students who earned all-state

music recognition

  • 33% of the first place winners at the state Science

& Engineering Fair

  • 35% of Florida’s public school award winners at

the Intel International Science & Engineering Fair

  • 3.7% of Florida students who met the ACT college

readiness benchmark on all four subject-area tests

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Financial Impact for Families and the Community

  • Every $1 spent supporting

college readiness, $6 are returned back to parents/students in college tuition – AP, ACT, Dual Enrollment, IB, Cambridge

  • In addition, BPS students earned

in 2012, over $44,178,800 in earned scholarships

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BPS Funding

Understanding the Need

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District Financial Comparison

  • Brevard has one of the lowest taxable values

per student in Florida

  • Brevard has significant acreage of federally
  • wned property that does not generate tax

revenue

  • Brevard is 25% below the state average in per

student property tax assessed value

  • If Brevard were at the average, it would

generate $70,000,000 in additional revenue

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Do Other Districts Have A Surtax? Yes

  • Brevard is one of 12 districts out of 67 in Florida

without a sales tax above 6%

  • Two of the other 11 districts had a surtax, but it

expired in 2012

  • Collectively, the districts without the surtax are 28%

above the state average in per student property tax revenue

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Didn’t We Borrow Money for Renewal?

To accommodate the additional annual 1,000+ student growth, renew aging facilities, and meet technology infrastructure, we borrowed approximately $400,000,000 for the 2005-2010 Facilities Plan

  • We built three new schools
  • We completed major renovations at various schools
  • We completed major infrastructure projects

But . . . 23 Schools Did Not Receive Renewal

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Responsible Use of Borrowed Funds

We created a small emergency fund. This is how we did it:

  • We reduced the scope of the 2005-2010

Facilities Plan

  • We generated interest income by strategically

investing borrowed funds

  • Planned projects came in under budget
  • The result: creation of reserved savings for

2010-2015 projects

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Why the Need Now?

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$0 $25,000,000 $50,000,000 $75,000,000 $100,000,000 $125,000,000 $150,000,000 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-13 2013-14 2014-15 2015-16 2016-17 2017-18

State Sources Local Sources plus Transfer from Operating

Capital Funding vs. Need

Last Year Millage Rate at 2.0 Mills Legislation Changed to 1.75 Mills Taxable Value Decline of 1.1% Legislative Option to Reduce to 1.50 Mills &Taxable Value Decline of 11.17% Taxable Value Decline of 11.80% Taxable Value Decline of 14.13%

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$0 $25,000,000 $50,000,000 $75,000,000 $100,000,000 $125,000,000 $150,000,000 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-13 2013-14 2014-15 2015-16 2016-17 2017-18

State Sources Local Sources plus Transfer from Operating Debt Payments

Capital Funding vs. Need

Last Year Millage Rate at 2.0 Mills Legislation Changed to 1.75 Mills Taxable Value Decline of 1.1% Legislative Option to Reduce to 1.50 Mills &Taxable Value Decline of 11.17% Taxable Value Decline of 11.80% Taxable Value Decline of 14.13%

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Capital Funding vs. Need

$0 $25,000,000 $50,000,000 $75,000,000 $100,000,000 $125,000,000 $150,000,000 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-13 2013-14 2014-15 2015-16 2016-17 2017-18

State Sources Local Sources plus Transfer from Operating Debt Payments Last Year Millage Rate at 2.0 Mills Legislation Changed to 1.75 Mills Taxable Value Decline of 1.1% Legislative Option to Reduce to 1.50 Mills &Taxable Value Decline of 11.17% Taxable Value Decline of 11.80% Taxable Value Decline of 14.13%

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$0 $25,000,000 $50,000,000 $75,000,000 $100,000,000 $125,000,000 $150,000,000 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-13 2013-14 2014-15 2015-16 2016-17 2017-18

Legislative Option to Reduce to 1.50 Mills &Taxable Value Decline of 11.17% Taxable Value Decline of 1.1% Taxable Value Decline of 11.80% Taxable Value Decline of 14.13% Last Year Millage Rate at 2.0 Mills Legislation Changed to 1.75 Mills

Capital Funding vs. Need

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Capital Funding vs. Need

$0 $25,000,000 $50,000,000 $75,000,000 $100,000,000 $125,000,000 $150,000,000 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-13 2013-14 2014-15 2015-16 2016-17 2017-18

Legislative Option to Reduce to 1.50 Mills &Taxable Value Decline of 11.17% Taxable Value Decline of 1.1% Taxable Value Decline of 11.80% Taxable Value Decline of 14.13% Last Year Millage Rate at 2.0 Mills Legislation Changed to 1.75 Mills

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Facilities Renewal & Maintenance

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A Message from: Dane Theodore

Assistant Superintendent of Facility Services

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Facilities Renewal Overview

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How Will We Spend the Sales Tax Money?

  • We will spend the money on:

– Roof replacements – AC replacements – Technology mandates – Safety to life systems (fire alarms)

  • We will not spend the money on:

– Equity-based core upgrades (Media Centers, Cafeterias, Art, Music, Covered P.E., Science Labs) – Career & Technical Education capital plan for middle schools – Additional parking and site traffic improvements – AC in middle school gyms and other competitive sports improvements

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Examples of Renewal Projects

  • The average cost to replace one bus is $100,000

– We should be replacing busses every 12 years or 34 per year (409 buses on the road daily) – In the past four years we replaced 30, which results in a bus life cycle of 55 years

  • The average roof replacement is $1,500,000
  • The average “chiller” replacement is $300,000
  • Replacement needs from one lightning strike at

Cambridge Elementary were $30,000

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Technology Challenges

  • The state mandated digital testing and curricular
  • fferings

– Result: $15,000,000, over three years, for technology infrastructure paid for by the locality

  • Prior to 2008, BPS dedicated $3,000,000 from its

capital funds for technology refreshments

– This equated to a 5 year cycle, which is longer than industry standard

  • Over the past 2 years, BPS has dedicated

$250,000 annually for technology refreshment

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Revenue Change

Quarter Mill

Expires June 30, 2013

Half Cent Sales Tax

Begins January 1, 2013 Annual Revenue: $8.9 Million Annual Revenue: $32 Million

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Current Homeowner Cost

Critical Needs Quarter Mill *Revenues generated through homeowner’s property taxes Based on an Average Home Value of $100,000 (minus homestead exemption)

Average annual cost to homeowner is

$18.75

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Shift to Shared Cost

Half Cent Sales Tax - 10 Year Authorization *Revenues generated by EVERYONE (includes tourists) Tax shifts from property owners to anyone purchasing goods in Brevard County Sales tax is not paid on: gas, groceries, pharmaceuticals, medical, and services

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Shifting the tax structure for school support to include visitors and tourists greatly reduces the burden

  • n homeowners
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When using average home value and income data, the estimated sales tax increase for homeowners will be between $5 and $20 annually

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We’re Facing Some Tough Choices

Without Additional Funding For Renewal

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Because . . .

  • We’re not going to stay on a 55 year bus

renewal cycle

  • We’re not going to let our $1.8 Billion facilities

investment go into disrepair

  • We’re not going to violate the law related to

technology mandates

  • We’re not going to defer cost responsibility to

future generations

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So, to meet these needs, money will be taken out of operating funds

Money for programs we don’t have to do, but choose to do

Because they make us great

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  • Reduction or Elimination of Fine Arts Programs
  • Elimination of Low Enrollment Electives
  • Reduction in Media Specialists/Media Assistants

Support

  • Reduced Support for Choice Programs
  • Reduced Support for Rigorous Curricula
  • Eliminate Co-curricular Opportunities
  • Reduction in Staff and/or their Compensation
  • Reduced Curricular Offerings

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Possible Reductions

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Other Possible Budget Savings

  • Close More Schools and Add Portable Classrooms

and Transportation Routes

– An unpopular yet cost effective savings plan

  • Implement Fee Concepts

– Examples include: Pay to play sports & increased facilities’ use charges to community groups

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Advantage to Brevard’s Economy

Space Coast enjoys “competitive advantages in workforce, education, vitality and quality of life.”

Economic Development Commission introduction of Florida’s Space Coast: America’s High Tech Titan

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Putting it Into Perspective

  • Efficiencies and priorities have preserved

exemplary programs thus far

  • BPS provides quality return on investment for

parents and the community

  • Exchanges tax from homeowners to all

purchasers including tourists

  • 65% reduction in capital budget

– The $76,000,000 loss will result in significant cuts to programs without additional revenue

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On November 6

Brevard County Residents Have a Choice to Make: ____________ FOR THE ONE-HALF CENT TAX ____________ AGAINST THE ONE-HALF CENT TAX

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FAQs and Support Documents

www.brevardschools.org/

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