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CUSD Wrecking Ball - What Does $130 Million In Budget Cuts Look Like?

Capistrano Unified School District Historical Budget Cuts 

  • 2006-2007 & 2007-2008          $10.5 million
  • 2008-2009                              $20.5 million  
  • 2009-2010 (April 2009)            $25.6 million  
  • 2009-2010 (September 2009)   $ 7.8 million
  • 2010-2011                              $34.9 million
  •       Salary Restorations           ($ 8.2) million
  • 2011-2012                              $9.6 million
  • 2012-2013                              $30 million 
  • 2013-2014                              $12.0 (Projected)                                                 

2007-2008 Reductions $10.5 million

Classified Support Reductions (CSEA)
  • Eliminated 94 positions 
Classified Support Reductions (Teamsters)
  • Eliminated 52 positions 
Program and Service Reductions
  • Reduced home-to-school transportation from 47 to 18 routes operated under a “parent pay” program

2008-2009 Reductions $20.5 million

Management Reductions

  • Eliminated 26 District-level management and confidential  positions and 5 site-level positions 
Classified Support Reductions (CSEA)
  • Eliminated 42 positions 
Classified Support Reductions (Teamsters)
  • Eliminated 2 positions 

2009-2010 Reductions $33.4 million ($25.6 + $7.8)

Management Reductions:
  • Eliminated 21 management /  confidential positions at the District  level and 11 elementary assistant  principals
Classified Support Reductions (CSEA)
  • Eliminated 55 positions 
Increased Class Sizes:
  • Increased class sizes in 2nd and 3rd grade from 20 to 31.5 students
Reduced Instructional support services:
  • Reduced Counselors, elementary music teachers, psychologists, and resource teachers on special assignment
Program and Service Reductions: Eliminated or reduced many programs to utilize categorical flexibility including:
    • Adult Education·      
    • Summer School·      
    • PE Grants·      
    • Deferred maintenance·      
    • Cal-SAFE·      
    • Art & Music Block Grant·      
    • CAHSEE Instruction·      
    • PAR·      
    • Instructional Materials·      
    • Professional Development and School and library Block Grants
    Furlough Days  
    • CUEA: 3 non-instructional days +1 instructional day
    • Management: 11 – 12 days
     
    2010-2011 Reductions $26,709,000 ($34.9 - $8.2)

    Program Reductions (5-11-10) $ 5,500,000
    Eliminated Positions (6-29-10) $ 2,465,000

    Management Reductions:

    • 2011-2012 Eliminated 2 middle school assistant  principals 
    Classified Support Reductions (CSEA)
    • Eliminated 28 positions and reduced calendar days and hours for 9.5 month employees 
    Increased Class Sizes:
    • Increased class sizes in 1st grade from 20 to 31.5 students
    Furlough Days
    • CSEA: Up to 4.5 days 2010 - 2011  
    • CUEA: 1.5 – 3 days
    • Teamster: 4 days since 
    • Management: 6 days
    Salary Consessions
    • CUEA 1.2% = $ 19,700,000
    • Teamsters 1% =  $ 490,000
    • CSEA .7% = $ 5,334,000
    • CUMA 5.25% = $ 1,470,000
    Salary Restorations - All Groups $ (8,250,000) (Students Still Had Furlough days - large class sizes - deferred maintenance - cuts to programs)

    Total Reductions after $8,250 in restorations: $ 26,709,000   

    2011-2012 Reductions $6.9 million

    Classified Support Reductions (CSEA)
    • Reduced Calendar for 10 month employees
    Salary Rollback:
    • Management 3.7%
    Medical/Dental Benefits

    • Effective January 2011, all employees pay a larger share of the monthly premium cost (% not specified)

    2012-2013 Reductions $30 million 

    *Note- The District uses a "MULTI-PRONGED APPROACH" to Budget Cuts.
    Proposed Budget Cuts were based on the passage or failure of Prop 30. If Prop 30 passed CUSD would need to cut $30 million - if Prop 30 failed CUSD would need to cut $51 million. This approach assumes that cuts start with unilateral cuts to non-negotiated items and then only looks to negotiated cuts from employee groups if needed. This is a fundamentally flawed approach to to addressing CUSD's budget shortfalls. Everything ("unilateral reductions" and "negotiated concessions") should be on the table together. To force unilateral cuts first then back into negotiated cuts as a last resort, has resulted in a disproportionate amount of cuts to core education programs while shielding the 90+% of the budget that goes to employee compensation from the bulk of cuts CUSD has faced the past five years.

    This can be illustrated by looking at the 2012- 2013 Collective Bargaining Agreements and the corresponding 2012-2013 Budget that was adopted June 27, 2013.

    Source: The Community Budget Forum June 7, 2013 laid out the tools CUSD had to make $30 - $50 million in cuts (Depending on the passage or failure of Prop 30). 

    Unilateral- Non-Negotiated Reductions = $11 million

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    • Management (CUMA):  $1.5 million
    • Classified (CSEA):  $3.5 million
    • Certificated (CUEA): $3.5 million
    • Redirect Categorical Funding: $1.1 million
    • Other area of savings: $1.4 million 

    Negotiated Employee Concessions: $39.7 million in identified cuts

    Savings from Class Size increase: = $8.2 million

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    • Increase Class Size by 1 all grades saves  $4.2 million
    • Increase Class Size by 1.5 all grades  $6.4 million
    • Increase Class Size by 2 all grades saves  $8.2 million

    Savings from Freezing Salary Schedule: = $2.7 million

    • Management (CUMA)    $162,796 mid-year Jan 2013
    • Classified (CSEA)        $932,554 full-year
    • Certificated (CUEA)      $1,432,144 mid-year Jan 2013
    • Teamsters                $207,044 full-year

    Savings from 8 Furlough Days all employees = $9 million 

    • Management (CUMA):  $100,059 per day
    • Classified (CSEA):  $338,361 per day
    • Certificated (CUEA):   $1,191,788 per day
    • Teamsters:   $43,415 X 8 per day

    Furlough Days from 2011-2012 contract + 2012-2013 contract

    • Management (CUMA)    6 current + 2 = Total 8 Furlough Days
    • Classified (CSEA)           0 current + 8 = Total 8 Furlough Days
    • Certificated (CUEA)       3 current + 5 = Total 8 Furlough Days
    • Teamsters                    4 current + 4 = Total 8 Furlough Days

    Savings from each 1% Salary Rollback =  $19.8 million

    • Management (CUMA) Each 1% = $194,030
    • Classified (CSEA)          Each 1% = $589,227
    • Certificated (CUEA)       Each 1% = $2,031,912
    • Teamsters                     Each 1% = $68,832


    Total Identified Cuts $51 million

    * When Prop 30 passed CUSD only needed to implement $30 million of the $51 million in identified cuts. CUSD chose not to implement the $19.8 million in identified Salary Rollbacks- preserving employee salaries. The Salary Rollbacks were never implemented. Knowing this now- go back and read CUSD's intentionally misleading press- release: http://capousd.ca.schoolloop.com/groups/news_item?d=x&id=1338041182074&group_id=1218998864154&return...

    2013-2014 Reductions $20.8 million

    The District passed a 2013- 2014 budget without having any employment contracts in place (over 92% of the budget). Execution of 2013- 2014 employment contracts were intentionally delayed so that new LCFF money could be added to revenues. WHY? So that the COLA + "New" LCFF moneys could be combined to trigger $5.622 million in salary restorations from the 2010 teachers strike. 

    By delaying contract negotiations CUSD paid employees $5.622 million in salary restorations then started the process of identifying $13,381,000 in budget cuts for 2013-2014- our current school year. 

    The result- Protected Salaries- Pensions- Benefits.
    • 3 Furlough Days for Students.
    • Deferred Maintenance 
    • The Largest Class SIzes in the Nation

    *NOTE: This final restoration of salaries made employees "whole". CUSD students will never have their furlough days or lost instructional time due to the teachers strike restored.  

    Jerry Brown's new LCFF gives Districts much more flexibility in how to spend "NEW" funds, but requires Districts to include the Public in how money is to be spend.  CUSD's "New" Local Control Accountability Plan limits Public in-put regarding how money should be spent to a written letter to the Superintendent- (no oral communication with Trustees- the public's elected representatives). So Public in-put will be in a letter to a superintendent that is no longer there. Money will be budgeted next year as it was this- to benefit employees while students and tax payer take all the cuts. 
    http://capousd.ca.schoolloop.com/file/1218998864154/5983148645706375659.pdf
      

    See : http://sanjuancapistrano.patch.com/groups/eye-on-education/p/cusd-will-need-to-find-12-million-in-bu...

    Source: http://capousd.ca.schoolloop.com/file/1219972013237/1281763527975/7974707668273677679.pdf

    Source: http://capousd.ca.schoolloop.com/file/1219972013237/1281763527975/3342424538418225139.pdf
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