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| BOARD OF EDUCATION Minutes for Finance and Operations August 14, 2006 |
Doyle Administration Building 545 West Dayton Street, Room 103 Madison, Wisconsin |
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Finance and Operations Committee meeting was called to order by Chair Lawrie Kobza at 5:03 p.m.
MEMBERS PRESENT: Carol Carstensen, Lawrie Kobza, Lucy Mathiak
MEMBERS ABSENT: None
OTHER BOARD MEMBERS PRESENT: Ruth Robarts, Arlene Silveira, Shwaw Vang (arrived at 5:07 p.m.)
STUDENT REPRESENTATIVE PRESENT: Joe Carlsmith
STAFF PRESENT: Sue Abplanalp, Mary Gulbrandsen, Pam Nash, Roger Price, Art Rainwater, Ken Syke, Barbara Lehman-Recording Secretary
1. Approval of Minutes
It was moved by Carol Carstensen and seconded by Lucy Mathiak to approve the Finance and Operations Committee minutes dated July 10, 2006as distributed. Motion unanimously carried.
2. Public Appearances
There were no public appearances.
3. Announcements
There were no announcements.
4. Citizen's Budget Summary
(Written materials distributed at the meeting: People's Budget - Conceptual Thoughts - attached to the original of these minutes.)
Ms. Kobza introduced the edited version of the process for developing a citizens' budget. The purpose is to provide a shorter document that may be consistent with how the public would view it in a form that is more commonsense. Since the last meeting, committee members have looked at it and there were suggested changes. Her goal was to preliminarily approve a form, then ask the administration to put together the numbers that go with the form for the meeting in September, and to have something to share with the public at the beginning of October.
Shwaw Vang arrived at this time.
Ms. Carstensen reviewed each of her suggested changes which were grayed out on the form.
DISCUSSION:
· Add summer school to transportation.
· Difficulty with showing Food Service - not supported by a specific expenditure. Show with a pie chart. Detail is there for the grant funds but the expenditures will cross multiple areas within the outline.
· Community interest in knowing what is funded by the local property tax, state money, federal money, etc.
· Using a pie chart to show in-school operations major categories and how much comes from what source.
· Difficulty breaking down general state aid, federal aid, and local property tax. All revenues come into one account and are not separated out. Other suggestions were made to show the revenues.
· How to show transportation expense for extracurricular activities and athletics.
· Curriculum and Teacher Development and Support are not broken down into subcategories but can be more detailed.
· Clarified that Legal is part of General Administration.
· Putting fringe benefits under employees. Showing total compensation and total salaries through a pie chart. Add personnel breakdown, not just dollars.
· Numbers to be used will be from the 2006-07 adopted budget.
Ms. Kobza suggested adopting the format as edited by Ms. Carstensen; making the edits suggested during this discussion; adding expenditures and revenues for the larger categories and, to the extent possible, offering other specifics; then the committee can decide about refining it more.
It was moved by Carol Carstensen and seconded by Lucy Mathiak to direct the administration to take the revised outline for a People's Budget and come back to the Finance and Operations Committee meeting in September with the numbers filled out so the Committee can review it then. Motion unanimously carried.
5. Other Business
There was no other business.
6. Adjournment
It was moved by Carol Carstensen and seconded by Lucy Mathiak to adjourn the meeting at 5:40 p.m. Motion unanimously carried.
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