Below is the, “Summary of Action” regarding the Farragut and Hamburg Corrective Action Plans at the January 21, 2015 School Budget Review Committee Hearing.
31. Farragut Community School District
The decision of the Committee in this matter is to approve modified supplemental
amount for the 2014-2015 school year in the amount of $803,010 as part of its corrective
action plan, pending receipt of board minutes authorizing the request, and to direct the
district to resubmit its corrective action plan at the April hearings with sufficient
reductions in expenditures to end FY15 with a positive unspent balance. The Committee
directed the district to adopt a plan to maximize the amount of savings in the shortest
period of time.
The district is directed to operate its expenditures in compliance with Iowa Code. The
district shall not expend in the General Fund for FY15 more than $2,002,533, not
including any allowable special education expenditures in excess of special education
receipts, plus actual miscellaneous income received. Miscellaneous income shall not be
expended until received.
The district is directed to submit monthly reports to its board and to the SBRC
demonstrating the financial position of the district in relationship to its certified budget
control lines and to maximum spending authority. These reports shall be available to the
auditor on request.
32. Hamburg Community School District
The decision of the Committee in this matter is to approve modified supplemental
amount for the 2014-2015 school year in the amount of $148,951 as part of its corrective
action plan and to direct the district to resubmit at the April hearings a corrective action
plan that shows sufficient changes to ensure that the district will complete FY15 with a
positive unspent balance. The Committee directed the district to adopt a plan to
maximize the amount of savings in the shortest period of time.
The district is directed to operate its expenditures in compliance with Iowa Code. The
district shall not expend in the General Fund for FY15 more than $2,508,006, not
including any allowable special education expenditures in excess of special education 9
receipts, plus actual miscellaneous income received. Miscellaneous income shall not be
expended until received.
The district is directed to submit monthly reports to its board and to the SBRC
demonstrating the financial position of the district in relationship to its certified budget
control lines and to maximum spending authority. These reports shall be available to the
auditor on request.
The complete findings of from the January 21, 2015 meeting can be found here
Summary:
- Due to the fact that the motion provided a significant amount of modified supplemental aid, $803,010 on behalf of Farragut and $148,950 on behalf of Hamburg the SBRC approved similar motions for each district with the same conditions and it was apparent by their discussions that modified supplemental aid would not be granted without these conditions. The only difference in each motion is the amount of modified supplemental aid.
- The primary condition is that the districts implement a building configuration plan that maximizes potential cost savings to each district and that maximizes the utilization of remaining staff after our budget reductions. In addition the building configuration plan needs to be one that can be implemented in the shortest amount of time that requires the least amount of facility upgrades.
- The only building configuration plan that was discussed during the SBRC hearing was the proposal approved by Farragut Board at the Monday, January 21, 2015 regular Board meeting. That proposal was based on the proposal that Hamburg Superintendent Terry Kenealy presented at the Mediation Session last week. The SBRC motion was consistent with the proposal, adopted by the Farragut Board, following the Farragut discussion.
- During the discussion it was also stated by Dr. Berger and it was obvious that the committee members were in agreement that the two districts needed to adopt the most efficient and cost effective building configuration plan and stop the movement towards arbitration. Dr. Lane Plugge was in attendance and he concurred that arbitration should be taken off the table.
I believe that the Farragut and Hamburg districts have been given quite possibly our last opportunity to prove that we can step and act in the best interests of our students The SBRC finding will be part of our scheduled phase II accreditation visit in February. Following the accreditation visit, which will examine not only budgetary issues, but also facility equity and accessibility and educational programming the Department of Education will present findings to the State Board of Education recommending accreditation or non-accreditation of the district(s) for action at the March State Board of Education Meeting.
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