Discussion Topics to Balance the 2007-08 MMSD Budget

Athletics/Extra Curricular
- Reduce number of sports and club activities options — up to $500,000
- Reduce/eliminate administration — up to $250,000
Consolidate schools — up to $1 million
Teacher/staff ratios
- Change Special Education/ESL ratios — up to $4.28 million
- Reduce/eliminate supplemental — up to $1.824 million
- Increase class size — up to $2.5 million
- Reduce librarians — up to $310,000
Building/facilities
- Reduce Custodial/Trades staffing — up to $570,000
- Reduce maintenance — up to $500,000
Reduce administrative staffing — up to $200,000
Services
- Reduce printing — up to $100,000
- Decrease district mail and delivery services — up to $62,000
- Provide less transportation — up to $750,000
- Eliminate grant writer — up to $100,000
- Reduce technology — up to $100,000
Student Services
- Reduce psychologists — up to $2 million
- Reduce social workers — up to $2.5 million
- Reduce/eliminate Minority Staff Coordinator — up to $200,000
- Reduce nurse — up to $1 million
Curriculum Development and Support
- Reduce professional development — up to $50,000
- Reduce/eliminate planners — up to $140,000
- Reduce Learning Coordinators — up to $840,000
Decrease allocations for Instructional Supplies/Materials/Equipment by up to 20%
- Formula reduction — up to $570,000
- ELM (Evaluation of Learning Materials) — up to $180,000
Eliminate/Reduce Direct District Student Programs/Services
- Stress Challenge — up to $85,000
- Alternatives — up to $3.4 million
- Strings — up to $300,000
- Environmental Education — up to $40,000

(up to) Total $24,351,000

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