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Budget 2020-21 Bedford Central School District Inspiring and Challenging Our Students Transforming Opportunities for Continuous Growth Adopted by the Board of Education on May 13, 2020 Bedford Central School District Inspiring and

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Budget 2020-21 Transforming Opportunities for Continuous Growth

Adopted by the Board of Education on May 13, 2020

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Context for Developing the 2020-21 BCSD Budget

Staying strong in the face of unprecedented challenges.

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BCSD’s Mission

The Bedford Central School District shall cultivate curiosity and a passion for learning by providing challenging educational opportunities for all students so they may achieve their full potential as productive and contributing members of society.

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Program Highlights

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❖ K-12 explicit programming and instruction for Social and Emotional Learning ❖ Comprehensive K-5 literacy instruction including phonological awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and reading comprehension ❖ Commitment to supporting two Student Assistance Counselors for increased education, prevention and counseling service ❖ Steering Committees developing shared district approach to Enrichment programming (K-5), and RtI services, (K-12) ❖ Targeted analysis of student achievement data points, K-12, including comparative results with other districts and across schools with BCSD

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Program Highlights (cont’d)

❖ Continue to build our technology capability, K-12, including instructional

  • pportunities, Universal Design for Learning (UDL), Assistive Technology (AT),

and systems of management and student and staff education on data security. ❖ Develop a strategic plan for implementation of K-12 instruction in STEM, including concepts of maker culture, problem-based learning, and the design process to integrate science, technology, engineering concepts, art and mathematics. ❖ Develop a BCSD vision for Library/Media/Information Literacy programming and spaces K-12 ❖ Identify program enhancements as part of the BCSD Long Range Planning process.

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Guiding Questions:

  • 1. How can we sustain and maintain what we know we do well,

celebrate student success, innovate, create and develop new learning experiences for BCSD students?

  • 1. How can we identify areas of weakness, prioritize needs, and

realign staffing and allocation of resources to develop plans to address these needs?

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COVID-19 Budget Context

  • The world is experiencing an unprecedented

event that is impacting our health, safety, financial security - and education.

  • The givens for our budget context:

○ Revenue assumptions have been reduced ○ We need a budget that can flex in the face of unanticipated conditions and challenges

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COVID-19 Budget Response

We are committed to:

  • Protecting students’ academic opportunities
  • Preserving and strengthening social-

emotional support

  • Maintaining fiscal responsibility while also

building in flexibility where possible to meet unanticipated challenges

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Commitment #1: Protect students’ academic

  • pportunities

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  • Staying true to Board Policy class size limits
  • No disruption to K-12 core academic programs and

Special Education services

  • Preserving student choice by continuing to offer a

wide range of electives at the high school

  • Leveraging “home grown” professional development

to continue momentum of current initiatives

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Commitment #1: Protect students’ academic

  • pportunities (cont’d)

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  • Mobilizing three ‘task forces’ to prepare for students’

return to school: Operational, Academic, Social-Emotional

  • Focusing support systems on identifying and addressing

student regression and other impacts of extended closure

  • Proceeding with planned expanded analysis of student

achievement data

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Commitment #2: Preserve and strengthen Social Emotional Learning supports

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  • Maintaining current staffing in clinical support
  • Student Assistance Counselors in the HS and the MS
  • Moving forward with The RULER Project in

collaboration with the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence in all schools, K-12

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Commitment #3:

Maintain fiscal responsibility while building in flexibility to meet unanticipated challenges

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  • Reducing staff proportionate to student enrollment
  • Preserving reserve levels to enable programming

reflective of changing needs

  • Month-to-month monitoring and oversight of all

programming and spending as actual revenue, expenses, and contextual changes become known

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Commitment #3:

Maintain fiscal responsibility while building in flexibility to meet unanticipated challenges (cont’d)

  • Mitigating financial impact on families by staying

below the NY State property tax cap

  • Continuing to maximize operational efficiencies
  • Managing reserves to support the strategic goals
  • f the district

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2020-21 Budget

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2020-21 Budget Summary

2020-21 Proposed Budget: $139,737,083 Budget-to-Budget Increase: 0.86% Tax Levy Percent Increase: 1.85% (Maximum Allowable Limit: 2.29%)

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2020-21 Revenue

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2020-21 Revenue - 4 Major Sources

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Revenue and Other Funding Sources Property Taxes State Aid Miscellaneous Receipts Appropriated Fund Balance: ERS Reserve

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2020-21 Revenue

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Revenue and Other Funding Sources 2019 - 20 Budget 2020 - 21 Budget Change Property Taxes $125,716,242 $ 128,041,992 $2,325,750 State Aid Miscellaneous Receipts Appropriated Fund Balance: ERS Reserve Total

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FY 19-20 Tax Levy = $125,716,242 Tax Base Growth Factor x 1.0074 = $126,646,542 FY 19-20 Exclusions

  • $ 8,625,858

(Debt Service)

= $118,020,684 Allowable Levy Growth Factor x 1.0181

(“Property Tax Levy Cap”)

FY 20-21 Tax Levy Before Exclusions = $120,156,859

BCSD Allowable Tax Levy Calculation

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2020-21 Revenue

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Revenue and Other Funding Sources 2019 - 20 Budget 2020 - 21 Budget Change Property Taxes $125,716,242 $ 128,041,992 $ 2,325,750 State Aid $ 7,998,919 $ 6,520,472 ($1,478,447) Miscellaneous Receipts Appropriated Fund Balance: ERS Reserve Total

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Revenue - State Aid

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2020-21 Revenue

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Revenue and Other Funding Sources 2019 - 20 Budget 2020 - 21 Budget Change Property Taxes $125,716,242 $ 128,041992 $2,325,750 State Aid $ 7,998,919 $ 6,520,472 $(1,478,447) Miscellaneous Receipts $ 4,486,737 $ 3,801,471 $ (685,266) Appropriated Fund Balance: ERS Total

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Revenue - Miscellaneous Receipts

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2020-21 Revenue

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Revenue and Other Funding Sources 2019 - 20 Budget 2020- 21 Budget Change Property Taxes $ 125,716,242 $128,041,992 $ 2,325,750 State Aid $ 7,998,919 $6,520,472 $(1,478,447) Miscellaneous Receipts $ 4,486,737 $ 3,801,471 $ (685,266)

  • Approp. Fund Bal. - PY Surplus - One

time Expenditure $ 0 $ 1,023,148 $ 1,023,148 Appropriated Fund Balance - ERS $ 350,000 $ 350,000 $ 0 Total $138,551,898 $139,737,083 $ 1,185,185

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Revenue - Other Sources of Funding

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2020-21 Appropriations

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Operational Reductions

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❖ Athletics $ 42,472 ❖ Co-Curricular Activities $ 40,935 ❖ Professional Development $100,000 ❖ Conference Attendance $ 32,534 ❖ Overtime and Extra Pay $ 56,884

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Faculty Concessions

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❖ Transitions in CO Admin. Team $ 41,561 ❖ Supt. Team Freeze $ 15,000 ❖ BASA Unit Freeze $ 45,560 ❖ BTA Unit Concessions In negotiations

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Appropriations by Function Code

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Appropriations by Function Code

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Appropriations by Object Code

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Appropriations by Object Code

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Personnel

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Personnel Implications: Staffing Reductions

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4.0 FTE Aide 2.6 FTE Secondary 6.0 FTE Elementary 1.0 FTE

  • Elem. Tiered Support

2.0 FTE Special Ed 3.0 FTE Middle School 1.4 FTE ESOL 1.0 FTE Specials (Art, Music, Phys Ed)

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Personnel Implications: Other Staffing Changes

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1.0 FTE Occupational Therapist Estimate $145,000 savings by reducing reliance on contracted svcs. 1.0 FTE Student Asst. Counselor Maintains current staffing while eliminating reliance on state aid 1.0 FTE Technology/Dat a Security Protect student data and comply with new State mandates; Ed Law 2-d

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Individual Town Tax Rates

Calculations based upon Assessed Property Values and NYS Equalization Rates

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Historical Data: Tax levy increase and budget-to-budget increase

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2020-21 Estimated Taxes Rates

(per $1,000 of assessed value)

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BCSD Contingency Budget 2020-21

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Contingency Budget

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Funding under a Contingent Budget:

  • Allowable Tax Levy (2019-2020 Levy)

$125,716,242

  • Non-tax Revenue

$ 10,321,943

  • Appropriated Reserves

$ 1,373,148 Allowable Contingent Budget $137,411,333 Proposed 2020-21 Budget $139,737,083 Required cuts to meet contingent budget: $

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Contingency Budget

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Reductions required by law

  • Certain equipment
  • Computer leases
  • Certain salary increases
  • Administrative reductions

$ 821,790 Additional reductions

  • Increase elementary class sizes up to contractual limits
  • Reduce secondary electives
  • Reduce/eliminate extra curricular activities
  • Reduce/eliminate athletics
  • Reduce non-instructional staff

$ 1,503,543 Total reductions to meet Contingency Budget

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What’s on the Ballot?

PROPOSITION 1:

The 2020-2021 School Budget The budget provides approval of the estimated expenditures of the Bedford Central School District for the fiscal year 2020-2021. The Board and Administration created a budget with an increase of 0.86% over the 2019- 2020 budget with a tax levy increase of 1.85% which is under the maximum allowable tax levy increase of 2.29%.

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What’s on the Ballot? (cont’d)

PROPOSITION 2:

Permission to Establish a Capital Reserve Fund Approval will allow the District to create a fund (similar to a savings account) to pay for the costs of maintaining our school buildings (construction, renovation, and equipment). This account would be funded through cost saving measures, unexpended funds or unappropriated fund balance. If this reserve fund is approved, the District is required to also obtain voter approval before any funds are spent.

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❖ Approval of this budget includes a 4 -year

Computer Instructional Purchase Agreement ($200,000)

❖ Approval of this budget authorizes the

District to enter into 3 different 5-year transportation contracts with a private bus contractor: one for home to school, one for field and athletic trips, and one for summer transportation services; with a total first-year estimated aggregate cost of $8.9 million.

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EVENT DATE

State Mandated Budget Hearing May 27, 2020 7:00pm Budget “Town Hall” Meetings

Join as Attendee

May 28, 2020 3:00 - 4:00 pm

Join as Attendee

June 1, 2020 9:30 - 10:30 am

Join as Attendee

June 1, 2020 7:00 - 8:00 pm Budget Vote & School Board Election Mail-in Ballots Due by June 9, 2020

Budget Calendar

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  • The 2020-21 Budget vote and BOE election will occur via

Absentee (Mail-in) Ballot.

  • All registered voters will receive a ballot in the mail with a

postage paid, pre-addressed return envelope.

  • Ballots may be returned by mail OR you may drop your ballot
  • ff in person at the Mt. Kisco Post Office. Ask to have your

ballot dropped into BCSD’s Post Office Box, P.O. Box 180.

  • To be counted, ballots must be received by 5:00pm on

June 9th.

Voter Information

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