Budget documents
Preliminary
Financial Plan (PDF)
Fiscal Year 2012-13
Requests for information and responses (PDF)
From the board and Budget Advisory Committee
Memo #181 (PDF)
Feb. 1, 2012
Fiscal Year 2012-2013 Financial Plan - First Reading
Memo #180 (PDF)
Jan. 23, 2012
Fiscal Year 2012-2013 Financial Planning
Memo #90 (PDF)
Oct. 24, 2011
Fiscal Year 2012-13 Pro Forma Financial Planning
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2012-13 budget development
Feb. 10, 2012 - The Anchorage School Board revised the district's preliminary 2012-13 budget at its Feb. 9 meeting. The revisions reinstated many programs and positions recommended for cuts by the superintendent, while reducing others. More than one hundred people testified and several hundred emails were received in support of programs that were originally slated for reduction. Read the news release »
Reinstatements
- Elementary librarians, four full-time positions
- Special Education counselors, nine full-time positions
- High school graduation coaches, nine full-time positions
- Gifted program staff, three full-time positions
- Modified middle school in-school suspension program
- Maintenance positions, six full-time positions
- Increases in class sizes for grades 4-6 were eliminated and the board approved a further reduction at those grade levels bringing the ratio to its lowest in nearly 20 years
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Reductions
- Non-school based clerical staff, approximately eight positions
- Educational Technology, one position
- Assessment and Evaluation, one position
- West High School master plan facilitator
- School board travel account for staff lobbying
- Equipment Replacement Fund
- Maintenance projects
- Budgeted attrition - salaries and benefits
- Pending negotiations
- Legal fees
- Unallocated funds for middle and high schools
- School supplies, $5 per student at all schools
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Listen to testimony and board comments
If you aren't able to attend a board meeting, there are several opportunities to listen to testimony and board comments. ASD-TV cable channel 14 rebroadcasts the meetings and audio files are available online for download.
Why the budget is growing
The Anchorage Assembly has final approval on the district's overall budget; however the detailed operating expenses are under the district's control. Within the General Fund, there are some costs that are not within the district's control. ASD has oversight on whether to commit to expenses but it cannot always control increases to those expenses.
For example, the district chooses to provide bus transportation to students who live more than one mile from their neighborhood school. However, the district doesn't choose the cost of the fuel needed to operate the school buses. So when fuel costs increase, the district's budget for that service must also increase. Cost increases can add up quickly when you take into account the fact that school buses drive more than 3 million miles each year transporting ASD students to and from school. |
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