By james art 
With the reduction of enrollment, the cost of missiles and some funding uncertainties, the Board of Directors of the Unified School Quarter of Scottsdale may need to reflect on Grimas-Challenging Question:
“What can we cut?”
Shannon Crosier, the chief financial officer of the district, was dumb at the Council meeting on February 11.
“We have to make cuts – we recognize this,” Krosier said.
The reduction of the instructions staff is probably “because there is our staff,” she noted.
At the same time, promotions to teachers are probably “we need to keep our talent.”
The presentation covered the forecasts for the next school year.
Crosier had the full attention on the board when she posed, “How to make a $ 2.8 million deficit of $ 4.2 million?”
Some savings – she said in the answer to her own question, “will come from” getting up less relies on consultants and external suppliers “for special educational programs.
And because of the falling recording, $ 1.2 million can be saved to reduce staff, she argues.
While Crossier said she was confident in savings of $ 2.8 million, “I don’t know where to find savings for as much as $ 4.2 (million).”
At the meeting, the Council heard “Middle Daily Membership” – which he most understands as “enrollment” – has decreased to 19 367.
This is a decline of just under 390 compared to last year, which in turn dropped 355 compared to the previous year.
The current number for enrollment is 13% lower than 22,608 students to whom the area teaches seven years ago.
It was that the board members dealt with mathematics in their leaders, since the main regional funding is based on the enrollment number.
The falling total enrollment and decline in the number of “weighted students” leads to a estimated reduction of $ 2.9 million to the budget, according to Crosier.
In addition to reducing recording, “the budget transition was about $ 1 million less – it’s a little concerned for me,” Krosier said.
“We don’t know what will happen to Prop 123,” Krosier added.
As such, she gave budget data with and without the sources of state funding, which must be approved as part of Arizona’s next budget.
Crosier said the area “receives about $ 1.3 million from Prop 123.”
Susd’s “transfer” (or surplus) will continue to fall – by another $ 3 million.
The reason: “It costs the area more for everything,” according to Crosier.
SUSD Superintendent Scott Menzel added that new Trump administration tariffs are already raising prices.
Questions
Board member Amy Carney has demanded that he focus on the administration and support services for redundancies, unlike teachers.
She also expressed fears that the size of the class would increase.
Probably calling for his experience as an entrepreneur, the new member of the board Mat Pitinski proposed “fundamental rethinking our cost structure” as Sud is in the “cycle” of reducing recording.
“As an area, we are committed to keeping the reductions as far away from the classroom,” Menzel said.
Exactly the same, he said, the instructions make up the bigger part of the salaries.
Menzel said he hoped to continue to provide an annual increase in the salaries of teachers and other staff.
Crosser said he would meet with departments to make “difficult decisions”.
At the board meeting on February 25, she will give a review/update of the interest -based negotiating budget.
The salary schedules will be presented to the Council on March 4.
On June 10, Crosier will submit a proposed budget.
“There is a potential to hold more budget discussions,” Menzel noted.
He said the state often waited by the end of June to cross its budget, leading to uncertainty in the budget of the area.
Lower lines
Maintenance and operation revenue will be $ 182-183.4 million, “Depending on offer 123.”
Additional help estimate: $ 17.8 million.
Additional aid cancellation estimate: $ 17.5 million.
Without the government -backed Katie Hobbs Prop 123, SUSD will have to reduce about $ 4.2 million from its budget.
Even with Prop 123 funds, SUSD will have to reduce $ 2.9 million from its previous budget for the next school year.
Crosser said she and her staff have “identified” $ 2.7 million budget abbreviations anchored by 21 positions that will not be filled.
M&O Override was approved in November 2023 and came into force last year, generating about $ 22 million a year.
The funds are intended:
• Keep the current class size coefficients;
• Continue to provide students with opportunities to deepen their understanding of fine arts and participate in athletic and extracurricular activities;
• Continue to compensate for competitive teachers;
• Continue the accent on the technology;
• Maintaining a kindergarten;
• Continue the professional development of staff.
In 2022, voters approved the district additional assistance (Capital).
With a maximum of $ 14.5 million a year, IT funds: furniture, bodies and equipment; libraries; Athletics; Fine arts; playgrounds and facilities; Curriculum; and technology.
After the three -hour public part of the meeting, the Council entered a private, enforcement session for “Discussion or Consultation for Legal Councils with the lawyer or lawyers … Re: a problem with the tax on the ownership of the county (Qasimyar).”
Called one of the owners of the scanner in the plaintiff’s list, the Qasimyar case for 2016 has successfully argued that the county has recharged thousands of properties after defective recalculations of the value of the home.
Forced to “make mathematics” after adjusting the classifications, the Maricopa County appraiser in June has released a document showing a huge $ 330 million rearrangement since 2015.
The county considers SUSD to pay $ 27 million.