Budget Information

Overview
Due to cuts in state funding, the AISD has made the reductions below for the 2011-2012 school year.

Adopted 2011-2012 budget

Financial Exigency
The AISD Board of Trustees voted Thursday, March 10 to approve a declaration of financial exigency and need for program change requiring the need for reduction in force.

Reduction in Force
The Board approved the following employment areas to be affected by a RIF:

Executive director of student services
Director of library services
Director of staff development
Two assistant athletic directors
Six high school assistant principals
One junior high assistant principal
Deaf education coordinator (special education)
PPCD coordinator (special education)
Special projects coordinator (special education)
Families in transition coordinator
Diagnostician instructional specialist (special education)
Fine arts specialist
Foundations of Literacy facilitator
Instructional technology specialist

Board Policy
Board Policy DFF (Local) Reduction in Force

Plan to Reduce Spending
Reductions announced at Feb. 7 board meeting

Reduce administration department budgets by 5 percent: $2,231,293 (click for details)
Dissolve the student affairs department: $196,000
Dissolve the safe and drug-free schools/parent relations department: $125,000
Eliminate Convocation: $12,000
Eliminate the Success program for first through sixth grades: $578,000
Close the Turning Point Elementary campus and place these students and teachers at grade-level specific sites. Move the AISD employees who office at Annex V and Pioneer Plaza into the former Turning Point Elementary campus: $169,000
Eliminate a receptionist position per secondary campus: $365,000
Eliminate guidance techs at all schools: $1,500,000
Eliminate two kindergarten teaching assistants per elementary campus: $1,600,000
Assign high school teachers one additional teaching period: $4,500,000
Eliminate teaming at the junior high level: $2,000,000
Delay IB implementation at Martin and Seguin high schools: $100,000
Eliminate printing of the Annual Wall Calendar and School Boundary Map: $40,000
Eliminate the UTA stadium rental: $99,000
Eliminate contract mowing from the plant services budget: $300,000

Administrative personnel reductions announced at March 31 board meeting

Administration will recommend termination at the end of the contract term of two high school assistant principal and two junior high assistant principal probationary contracts. A third junior high assistant principal probationary contract position has already resigned effective at the end of the school year, and this position will not be filled.
Director of auxiliary personnel
Hardware support manager
Assessment systems specialist
Gang intervention specialist
Help desk specialist
Transportation specialist
Bilingual/ESL coordinator
Community programs coordinator
Health services coordinator
Recognition coordinator
Title I program compliance coordinator
Media production technician
Administration secretary
Career and technical education secretary
Community programs secretary
Guidance and counseling secretary
Library services secretary
Personnel secretary
Three technology secretaries
Accounts payable clerk
Community programs clerk
Fine arts clerk
Health services clerk
Three personnel clerks
16 additional bus drivers

Other reductions announced at March 31 board meeting

Reduce the district’s monthly contribution toward health insurance by $35 for professional employees and $20 for all other employees. (This is a change from the reductions announced in February.): $1,813,221
Consolidate summer school locations: $900,000
Implement FICA Alternative Plan for substitutes and part-time temporary employees: $470,000

Reductions announced at April 21 board meeting

In order to ensure that ADA revenue covers the cost of the community-based pre-K program, the student to teacher ratio will be set at 26:1. Four teaching positions will be reduced through attrition, and 18 teaching assistant positions and one data clerk position will be eliminated.
Based on staffing analysis, the special education department will reduce 36 teaching positions by attrition and 46 teaching assistant positions.

Latest Budget News

Message from Superintendent McCullough about first round of reductions | Feb. 7, 2011
Superintendent McCullough updates the AISD budget situation | Jan. 21, 2011
Superintendent McCullough addresses the community | Jan. 14, 2011

Helpful Links
Adopted 2011-2012 budget
AISD Finances Plain and Simple
Answers to frequently asked questions
Department budget reduction details
Board Policy DFF (Local) Termination of Employment, Reduction in Force
Complete 2010-2011 budget
Comparison data
Make Education a Priority

Contact Us
We want to hear from you as we take on the challenge of planning for greatly reduced funding from the state. Ultimately these tough decisions will rest with the Board of Trustees, but we are open to hearing your ideas and answering any questions you may have. E-mail us at budgetnews@aisd.net.