The Kennedale School Board will hold a budget work session this Thursday night at 6 p.m. prior to the regular monthly session which begins at 7 p.m. The topic will be the proposed budget for the school year 2015-16. {{more}}Overall, the budget includes a $1,200 raise for teachers and a 3% increase for the rest of the staff while showing a significant decrease in maintenance and debt service cost.
Both meetings are open to the public and will be held at the KISD Media Center on the campus of Kennedale High School at 901 Wildcat Way in Kennedale. See a copy of the proposed budget (general categories not details) at KISDRequired Postings
and click on “Budget Information.”
A general breakdown:
Instruction expenditures – a proposed increase of $134,038 or 0.8%. This is the category that includes teachers who will received a $1200 raise and classroom aides who received a 3% increase. The total budget for this category last year was $16,419,935. The proposed total for this category is $16,554,015.
Instructional Support – a proposed increase of $81,674 or a 1.86%. This is the category that includes campus level administrators (principals, assistant principals), counselors, nurses, testing and co-curricular and extra-curricular support. Most of this staff will receive a 3% increase. The total budget for this category last year was $4,381,358. The proposed budget is $4,463,032.
Central Administration – a proposed increase of $72,558 or 6%. This includes staff that is not specifically tied to an individual campus and includes the superintendent, deputy superintendent and associate superintendent. The staff under this category have received a 3% salary increase. The total budget for this category last year was $1,197,298. This year, the proposed is $1,269,856.
Three categories show a decrease in proposed spending.
Operations, which includes the categories of plant maintenance (buildings and grounds), data processing, security, food service and student transportation, had a decrease of $899,754 or a 12.8% decrease. All the decrease comes from the proposed maintenance budget which had a $944,170 decrease or 22.7%. Almost all of this decrease reflects the completion of the second floor of classrooms at Kennedale High School this past year. The total for this category for last year was $6,978,210. The proposed total is $6,078,456.
Debt Service for the district also showed a decrease in the proposed budget dropping from $3,931,320 to $3,695,104. This is a $236,216 or 6% decrease.
The last category to show a decrease was items in the ?Other?. This category includes expenditures in intergovernmental charges and agreements (Educational Service Center) and community service. Last year total was $97,325, this year proposed is $95,945 for a difference of a $1,380 decrease for a 1.4% decrease.
Overall the proposed budget over last year is a decrease in proposed spending of $847,278 or a 2.5% drop. Last year?s budget was $33,005,066. This year budget $32,157,788.
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