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School Funding in Creede School District Presentation to the August 8, 2020 Tracie Rainey, Executive Director Colorado School Finance Project

TODAY’S TOPICS Potential Options: School Finance’s Collision with School Finance: 1) Vaping/Nicotine COVID-19: Who is CSFP? Tax - TABOR 1) Basics - Gallagher 2) Gallagher What do we do? 2) Creede - Budget Stabilization Factor 3) Energize Our Economy August 8, 2020 2

Who are we? • Non-profit, non-partisan • Supported by school Colorado district contributions School • School finance analysis Finance for local and state policy Project makers since 1995 (CSFP) • Governed by a board – national and state experts on school finance August 8, 2020 3

What we do Our Mission: To compile, Colorado collect and distribute School research-based, non- Finance partisan information and Project data on topics related to (CSFP) school finance for state and local policymakers. August 8, 2020 4

How we do it • Monthly advisory zoom meetings 130+ attendees – Colorado governor’s office – JBC and School CDE presenters as Finance examples Project (CSFP) • Email updates • Website: https://cosfp.org/ • Twitter: @cosfp August 8, 2020 5

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• School Finance Act 1994 - Goals of the Act How are • Revenue Sources school - Challenges over time districts funded? • Changes being discussed - Citizen’s initiatives - Referred measures August 8, 2020 7

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What we know • The state cut $3.2 Billion School Finance • B/S Factor - $1.7 Billion in Colorado • The local share will be TODAY impacted • Federal one-time money • Measures referred to ballot August 8, 2020 9

• Gallagher – 1982 o Stabilized local property tax revenue o Balance between What has residential and non complicated residential the funding issues for • TABOR – 1992 Colorado? o Limited revenue & spending o Undid balance of Gallagher August 8, 2020 10

Student need has changed: Requires more services & this costs money Students of poverty are Students learning English 41% population are 14% of population • approximately $.30 of every $1.00 • approximately $.20 of every $1.00 is state funded. is state funded. Students with special needs Gifted students are 7% of are 11% of population population • approximately $.30 of every $1.00 • approximately $.15 of every $1.00 is state funded. is state funded August 8, 2020 11

• 81 students- 38 at-risk* • Per Pupil Revenue: $23,173 • Total Program mills: 20.453 • Override mills: 1.468 About Creede • ‘De-bruced’ in 1995-96 School District • Mills at time of ‘de- brucing’: 40.08 • 1 mill raises $47,700 or $517 per student * Data from the CSFP Profile Report for Creede School District August 8, 2020 12

Total A Asse ssesse sed V Val alue F FY 2019 2019-20 20 5 5 23 $20.7B-$7B (323,637 students) 80 $4.1B- $1B (364,532 students) Creede: $979M- $100M (157,982 $47,699,902 students) $97M- $10M (30,421) 65 Less than $9M (922 students) August 8, 2020 13

Asses essed V Value P Per er P Pupil F FY 2019-20 20 6 15 18 $6.9M-$1M (3,651 students) Creede: $516,792 40 $999,999-$500,000 (16,995 students) $499,999-$100,000 (535,536 students) $99,999-$50,000 (266,654 students) Less than $49,999 (54,742 students) 99 August 8, 2020 14

Total P l Program Mills FY ls FY 2019-20 20 23 39 27 (160,017 students) 26.999-20.000 (570,032 students) 19.999-10.000 (122,648 students) 63 53 Creede: 20.453 9.999-1.000 (25,711 students) August 8, 2020 15

Revenue inside the School Finance Act Local Share – District Total Program = State Share Local Share • Property tax 30.6% LOCAL SHARE • Starting point for Local District Taxes: Local Share Property Taxes determining state share of CREEDE Ownership Tax District Total Program • Remains in the district 69.4% State Share STATE SHARE • State “backfills” to reach State Taxes: State Share General Fund District Total Program. CREEDE Education Fund August 8, 2020 16

• Wide variance • Goals of 1994 – 40 mills and 50/50 split • School districts have no Assessed control of the residential/non Valuation split • Mills inside the formula • Mills outside the formula August 8, 2020 17

• From 09-10 – 20-21 school About year, district has lost Creede’s: ($1,935,221) Budget Stabilization • For 2020-21: ($231,737) Factor August 8, 2020 18

2008-2021 Budget Stabilization Factor: Reflects passage of HB20-14 $200,000,000 Per pupil base funding before added $s: $5,250.41 Per pupil base funding after added $s: $5,270.13 $ 19.82 $0 $200,000,000 ($ 381,000,000 ) Fundingmeets Amendment23 requirement2008-09 ($ 130,000,000 ) ($572,400,000) $400,000,000 ($ 572,400,000 ) ($672,400,000 ) $600,000,000 ($774,000,000 ) ( $828,300,000 ) ($ 828,300,000 ) ( $829,000,000 ) ($ 880,000,000 ) $800,000,000 ($ 1,004,000,000 ) ( $1,011,000,000 ) ($1,170,000,000) $1,000,000,000 $1,200,000,000 $5,507.68 $6,397.90 $5,529.71 $5,634.77 $5,843.26 $5,954.28 $6,121 $6,292.39 $6546.20 $6,768.77 $6,951.53 $7,083.61 Base Per Pupil Funding 2008-09 2009-10 2011-12 2016-17 2017-18 2018-19 2019-20 2010-11 2012-13 2013-14 2014-15 2015-16 2020-21 August 8, 2020 19

$s cut More than $3 billion dollars from state’s General Fund What makes Timing the COVID-19 downturn Immediate – reductions in current different year and forecast period Multiple years of impact Loss of local share – permanently gone unless constitution changed August 8, 2020 21

Loss of local revenue due to dropping of oil and gas valuation creating a reduction in funding Next year RAR goes from 7.15 down Residential to 5.88 mills — approximate loss of Assessment $500M for K-12 in local share – Rate Gallagher Repeal will eliminate the reduction State backfill becomes more challenging and has resulted in growing the B/S Factor August 8, 2020 22

• Urgency of funding has only increased in many communities – disparities grow wider • Underfunding of student populations Challenges Remaining • Debt owed to K-12 • Rural issues • Recruitment, retention and salaries continue to be challenging August 8, 2020 23

Continuous budgeting with a conservative approach - Quarterly forecasts (June, September, December, March) Don’t use one-time CARES money to address on-going costs Other Things to Prepare multiple budget scenarios to Consider address: - Reductions in state share funding (best/worst case) - Traditional school - Hybrid model for schools - Remote learning in place August 8, 2020 24

• Work with your legal counsel on • Furloughs • Reduction In Force (RIF) policy • Have you already extended contracts and if so, what are the terms around furloughs, RIFs, etc? Checklist to help with • Are your attrition numbers changing due to the current situation? budget planning and • What is your MLO and bond language in regard to mills — does it float? adoption • What is your fund balance ? • How have your assumptions changed or how might they change based on past recessions? For example, did at-risk student populations increase and did school choice options look different? August 8, 2020 25

Short-term efforts DURING legislative session: - Tax exemptions- less than Efforts that $50 million for K-12 would impact - Gallagher legislation to school prevent cuts (does not funding- SHORT TERM increase funding) - Vaping/Nicotine sales tax- rural money for 3 years $25, $30, and $35 million August 8, 2020 26

Potential ballot initiative that would impact school funding: Efforts that would impact - Initiative 306- Energize our school funding- Economy (annual loss of POTENTIAL revenue approx. $300 million) BALLOT ISSUE August 8, 2020 27

QUESTIONS: NOW OR LATER Tracie Rainey Stay connected: • T.Rainey@cosfp.org • www.cosfp.org • @COSFP • 303-860-9136 • Colorado School Finance Project - Facebook August 8, 2020 28