Showing posts with label staffing allocations. Show all posts
Showing posts with label staffing allocations. Show all posts

Monday, April 18, 2011

Resource Allocations to Schools

At tomorrow night's regular meeting of the Board of Trustees, Administration will be presenting the report Resource Allocations to Schools - Early Spring Staffing 2011/2012 Preliminary Operating Budget for the board's approval.

An excerpt from that report follows:

Projected school based staffing changes

School based certificated staff - as a result of the elimination of small class size initiative funding for grades 4 - 6 and the net flowthrough effects to schools
(81.0) FTEs estimated

School based certificated and non certificated staff - as result of RAM allocation rate increases less than the resource allocation required to accommodate the full salary and benefit cost increases for school based staff
(243.0) FTEs estimated

Total (324.0) FTEs estimated

Please note this is in addition to the 172 positions cut in phase I of the budget process.

Once the report is approved and RAM resources are allocated to schools April 20, Principals must submit final staffing decisions to Administration by May 3. These staffing decisions will become part of the 2011/2012 Final Operating Budget that will come before the Board of Trustees at their June 14 Regular meeting for decision (Prior to that, the Preliminary Budget Report to the Board of Trustees will be made available to them May 24).

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

CAPSC Question Regarding Upcoming Budget Submitted to Trustees

CAPSC made a submission during the Public Question Period at last night's regular meeting of the Board of Trustees.

Parents and School Councils are anxiously waiting for information regarding budget impacts at the school level particularly around staffing allocations. Is there a timeline in place for the RAM deployment of instructional resources to schools and when this information might be available for discussion with school councils?


Chief Superintendent, Naomi Johnson, responded that it has been three weeks since the provincial budget was tabled at the Legislature. Administration is looking closely at resources centrally and have met with principals. The tentative date for the RAM allocations to go out to schools is April 21. Administration will be meeting again with principals next week with more details around implications. A timeline is being worked on that will outline the process through to June when the budget will be presented to Trustees for their approval. Ms. Johnson hopes to have more information for the following evening's CAPSC meeting. She also indicated that Ms. Meyers, Superintendent, Finance and Business Services, would also be in attendance.