FLORENCE ONE SCHOOLS

2019-2020
Budget-1st Reading
THURSDAY, May 9th, 2019
 Budget Timeline
December Send Budget Requests to Principals/Directors
January 10 Board Meeting/Budget Goals for 2019-2020
January 14 Principals/Directors Meet with Superintendent
February 2018-2019 Budget presentation
March Begin Receiving Numbers from SDE of Revenue
& Departments
April 4 Board Meeting/Budget Input
May Receive Final Numbers for Revenue from SDE
May 8 Public Hearing Run in local paper
May 9 Budget Work Session with Board of Trustees
1st Reading of Budget
June 6 Public Hearing at 6:00 pm in Board Room
Budget Work Session with Board of Trustees
June 13 2nd Reading - Approval of Budget
June 14 Approved Budget Submitted to County Auditor
 FLORENCE ONE SCHOOLS
Creating an Educational Plan
Our goals of the 2019-20 budget are to:
• Maintain focus on teaching and learning.
• Investment in our staff
• Reinvest every dollar wisely in order to maximize the
resources in our classrooms and schools.
• Continued investment in Technology
• Special Education, Stabilizing budget, Securing Excellence,
and Preparing for the Future
• Implementing new curriculum and programs.
• Invest in maintenance in each school throughout the district.
FLORENCE ONE SCHOOLS
16,000 students
31 Facilities
2,300 Employees
$154 Million Budget
175 Bus Routes
Transport 7,500 students

2 Child Development Centers

14 Elementary Schools
3 Middle Schools
3 High Schools
Career Center
Alternative School
Adult Education Center
District-sponsored Charter School
CHALLENGES
Teacher & Support Staff
Retention and Recruitment

Teaching & Learning

Aging buildings/Mobiles

Technology & Student

Achievement Gaps
 ENROLLMENT
16,700
16,650

16,500 16493

16,352
16,300
16,231

16,100 Loss of 669 students

over the past 5 years 15,981
15,900
15,881

15,700
2014-15 2015-16 2016-17 2017-18 2018-19 2019-20
 EXPENDITURES
DESCRIPTION 2019-20

School Programs $78,512,125

These
Operations & Maintenance $9,371,734 accounts
represent 84%
Special Education $10,876,407 of the
expenditures
Student Transportation $4,420,613 budget or
approximately
IB Program $2,769,274 $129 million

Supervision $3,223,607

Guidance Services $4,382,361

School Administration $11,513,907

TECH/Data Services $3,824,415

 FLORENCE ONE SCHOOLS
• Early College books for Wilson HS ($9,000)
• PYP investment in budget ($75,000)
• Increase investment in Textbooks
• Continued investments in technology
and teaching and learning
• Athletic uniforms in Middle School
and High School
• Upgrade to 21st century classrooms
• Expand in-school learning opportunities for
special education students
• School-based therapists at all schools
• Expand Montessori @ McLaurin ($30,000)
• Continued reinvestment in music programs
• Piano lab & guitar class at
All 3 High Schools
• Expand honors to Spanish 2
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• (3) McLeod Trainers for middle schools ($22,500)
• Summer Curriculum writing ($45,000)
• Early Childhood expansion
• Curriculum/Technology coordinator
@ each Elementary School
• (3) Sensory rooms
• New Math & Science (k-12)
• 1:1 Chromebooks in all grades
• Smartboards in all K-8 classrooms
• Expanded Alternative School
• Autism Program @ Sneed & West Florence (24 students)
• Inclusive Playground expansion
• New software programs in elementary
(dreambox & Lexia)
• Code to the Future @ Savannah Grove
• 100 new IB students in grades 7-12
• Add IB Psychology
• Add 4 More Ap Classes at Wilson-Total of 6
• Add 6 more ap classes at WFHS-total of 15
• Add 4 more AP classes at SFHS-Total of 15
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• Stem bus
• Equal opportunity schools partnership
• Ap Human Geography for freshman
@ Wilson & SFHS
• Reduced guidance counselor to Student
ratios
• Expand # of arts classes
• Partnership with McLeod to Implement
tele-health services @ 4 schools
• SFHS TV Studio
• Clean energy class
• Cyber security class
• Amazon AP Computer Science
@ Wilson & WFHS
• Governor’s School engineering program @
Wilson & SFHS
 TECHNOLOGY-$1,364,100
Imagine forward completed
Grades K-12 1:1 implementation
$3 million
Servers & Switches
High School Distance Learning Classrooms
Purchased Professional Services
Purchased Technical Services
Technology Repair
Device Security
Smartboard refresh
All elementary Smartboards replaced and
Smartboards added to middle schools
$2.6 million
Firewall & Spam filtering
Building Security
Disaster Recovery
Infrastructure networking and cabling
Instructional Software
Supplies
 ELEMENTARY MIDDLE SCHOOL HIGH SCHOOL
Math World Language
Big Ideas Science Spanish
Grammar Books 3-5 Discovery Techbook French
German
English
Grades 6-8

TEXTBOOKS
$1,500,000
 PERSONNEL
PERSONNEL

• Sixty-six (66) Additional positions:

- 1 Elementary Administrator
- 17 High School Positions
- 26 Middle School Positions
- 23 Elementary School Positions
- 4 Curriculum/Technology Coordinators
- 10 Special Education positions (8 IDEA funded)
- 4 School Based Therapists
 TEACHER INCENTIVES

• Preschool 3 & 4 years old

• Lunch offerings
• Perfect attendance $2,000
• Tuition reimbursement $100K
 PERSONNEL

STEP INCREASE
&
5% RAISE FOR
ALL DISTRICT EMPLOYEES
5% increase for all stipends
 SALARIES
Salaries Salary Total Cost Total cost one Total cost with
2018-19 increase one one step & step plus 5% salary step and
step additional increase for 5% and fringe
2019-20 fringe everyone
2019-20 2019-20
$81,015,771 86,548,926 $2,292,337 $6,619,783 $8,912,121

Total cost of step & 5% for every district employee $8,912,121

Total State Aid to $35,ooo minimum & 4% teachers salaries $3,206,656
Total amount included in Local General fund to cover raises $5,705,465

2018-19 2019-20 Increase

STIPENDS-(490) $1,340,696 $1,407,731 $67,035
2018-19 2019-20
State Base Student Cost State Base Student Cost
$1,913.13 $1,911.06
Local Base Student Cost Local Base Student Cost
$571.87 $575.94
Total Base Student Cost Total Base Student Cost
$2,485 $2,487
 STATE REVENUE
EFA ALLOCATION
Formula components:

42,575,479
• BSC
• Enrollment
41,962,126
41,836,009• Index of taxpaying
ability

Checkpoints:
40,472,676
• Prior year 135th day
• 45th day
• 135th day
 WHERE THE LOCAL
REVENUE
MONEY IS EXPENDED
2018-19 2019-20
AD VALOREM TAXES/DELIQUENT $53,182,938 $53,081,855

REVENUE IN LIEU OF TAXES $4,402,954 $4,893,510

TUITION $115,700 $137,102

INTEREST $358,165 $638,139

RENTALS $61,190 $47,390

REVENUE FROM OTHER LOCAL /OTHER $105,894 $85,759

TOTAL LOCAL REVENUE $58,226,841 $58,883,755

FUNDING – ALL FUNDS

6,276,605
 WHERE
WHERE DOES THE
THE
MONEY IS
MONEY COME FROM
EXPENDED
0% INCREASE IN SPENDING
STATE REVENUE 2018-19 2019-20
TOTAL STATE REVENUE $90,255,667 $88,987,527
STATE AID TO $0 $ 3,206,656
CLASSROOMS
(teacher salary increase)

TRANSFERS IN FROM $6,189,069 $6,276,605

OTHER FUNDS
TOTAL LOCAL REVENUE $57,983,776 $58,956,047
TOTAL $154,428,512 $157,426,835

+$2,961,365 1.92%
 FLORENCE ONE SCHOOLS
7 YEAR MILLAGE SUMMARY

205 201.72 201.72

197.54 197.54 197.54 197.54

200

195

189.30

190

185
2013-14 2014-15 2015-16 2016-17 2017-18 2018-19 2019-20
 INVESTMENT IN OUR FACILITIES
This year, we have invested in improvements in our
school facilities. Next year, our 8% money will allow
us to invest over $11 million in our facilities.
üClassroom floor/carpet Renovations
üBathroom renovations
üHVAC replacements
üRoof replacements
üLocker-room replacements
üHS Gym floors resurfaced
üAthletic fields
 MAINTENANCE BUDGET
Equipment-$194,000
u(2) Zero Turn Mowers
uBackhoe
uLarge Grounds Truck
uDelivery Truck
uTechnician truck

Additional Personnel-$35,000
uElectrician

Major Initiatives
u HVAC, boiler replacements, elevator replacements,
Roofing needs @ 4 schools, doors, lighting, emergency lights
u Filter replacements at all facilities-$120,000
 DEBT SERVICE
• Total Outstanding General Obligation Debt as of 6/30/19
$34,005,000
• Projected payment for 2019-20 (includes Series 2019)
$13,143,375
• Debt service millage is projected at targeted
32mills
• Installment Purchase Obligation on 12/7/13 for
$6 million for equipment @ Moore, Royall, & North Vista
$650,635 (payment 7 of 10)
• Capital Lease Obligation on 7/20/16 for Chromebooks
$0
• Florence One Schools credit rating
Aa2 (Moody’s high quality)
 FUND BALANCE HISTORY
2014 TO 2018
45,000,000
$40,385,568
40,000,000

$34,721,136 $35,393,854
35,000,000
$32,329,381 $33,045,192

30,000,000

25,000,000

20,000,000

15,000,000

10,000,000

5,000,000

0
2013-14 2014-15 2015-16 2016-17 2017-18
 FLORENCE ONE SCHOOLS
Financial Summary

• No millage increase
• No increase in spending
Same spending budget as last year-
$154 million
• Step & 5% raise for all employees
• Increased programs for all students
• Shifted and invested millions of dollars into our
classrooms and staff
• 66 new staff positions
• Excellent credit rating
• $40+ million fund balance
FLORENCE ONE
SCHOOLS

PUBLIC HEARING
June 3, 2019