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Saint Paul Public Schools Budget 2009-10
Closing the achievement gap and maintaining a high-quality educationfor all students remain priorities as Saint Paul Public Schools managesan expected $25 million budget shortfall for the 2009-10 school year.Twenty-five million dollars is about 5 percent of the district'soperating budget. This is the largest single-year shortfall thedistrict has faced in more than a decade.

With pastbudget shortfalls, school and district officials made every effort tokeep cuts as far from classrooms as possible. That will be the primarygoal as district officials plan for the 2009-10 budget, however, adeficit of this size will touch all areas of Saint Paul Public Schools.A task force of Business Services staff, principals and otheradministrators currently are developing priorities for eliminating theshortfall.

SPPS assembles a preliminarybudget outlook in December then revises it based on updated enrollmentcounts, state forecasts and the Legislative session. This year theforecast was made in August to accommodate a presentation to the Boardof Education on Large-Scale System Changes in the district.

The Superintendent began to discuss theshortfall at the regular Board of Education meeting on Tuesday, Jan.20. Discussion continued through the Feb. 10 Committee of the Boardmeeting at which guidelines for the 2009-10 budget were presented.Later this winter the district will assemble enrollment and budgetallocations for schools. Those are sent to schools in March. Principalsand site councils prepare their budgets and return them to the districtoffice in May to be assembled into the final budget. The board isexpected to vote on approval of the 2009-10 budget at its June 16meeting. By law, the district must have a board-approved, balancedbudget by June 30.
Budget Update
See the documents below for information and recommendations to address the SPPS short-term and structural budget deficits.

Budget/ARRA report COB - 6-9-09

Quarterly Budget Report, 2009-10 Proposed Budget, Report on the Referendum 5-5-09

American Reinvestment and Recovery Act 4-7-09
(federal stimulus dollars)

Central Administrative Reduction Proposal 3-24-09

Budget Update Executive Summary 2-10-09

Budget Projections 1-20-09
FY 2009-10

Winter Budget Update 2-10-09