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MAY 3, 2019, KEIZERTIMES, PAGE A5 Proposed school budget focuses on stability amid uncertain state funding Teens: Fitness challenge could yield college money tors in Salem-Keizer Public Schools still want. The main concern there is suicides among adolescents, she told the budget committee at its second meeting. At the committee’s fi rst meeting April 23, she said no one had found a way. Much of the committee’s discussion involved what ex- penditures would go under what budget headings. Perry and Michael Wolfe, chief oper- ating offi cer, said several ques- tions required further study. Perry and Wolfe added several fi gures in the budget documents were still estimates and that some take more than a year to answer. Asked how Salem-Keizer compares to the state of Or- egon in spending averages, Perry said it was a “get back to you” question because the school would have to go back to 2018-19 for the answer. She added that the counsel- or-student ratio is now 450 to 1 and that the national standard is about 250 to 1. The next budget meeting will be May 20. Planet Fitness will begin its Teen Summer Challenge starting on Wednesday, May 15 through Sunday, Septem- ber 1. The challenge will al- low teens from the ages 15 to 18 to workout for free at any of the 1,700 Planet Fitness lo- cations. Teenagers who sign up will also be entered into the Planet Fitness’s Scholarship Sweep- stakes. At the end of the sum- mer, 51 teens across the 50 states and Washington, D.C. will be randomly selected to receive a scholarship for col- lege, including a $5,000 grand prize. To sign up, teens must visit their local Planet Fitness in person, as online sign-ups are not available. Teens under 18 need to bring a parent/guard- ian to sign up, and can then workout alone. Teens must work out at the location they sign up for and cannot use other locations. There is no purchase nec- essary. The Salem Planet Fit- ness location is on Lancaster Drive. By HERB SWETT For the Keizertimes Salem-Keizer Public Schools has a proposed 2019- 20 budget of $1,193,298,808, up 4 percent from the current budget of $1,147,797,142. Superintendent Christy Perry summarized the budget and the changes in its funds in the fi rst of two meetings on Tuesday, April 23, in her budget message to the district budget committee. It was the fi rst meeting of the committee, which elected Levi Herrera- Lopez chair and Jim Green vice chair. Perry said the proposal is based on Gov. Kate Brown’s recommendation of a state school fund of $8.97 billion for the 2019-21 biennium. Passage of the fund now proposed in the Legislature would cut the The proposed levels of funding for individual ac- counts are as follows: • General fund, $14,057, 820. • Fee-based programs fund, $14,604,300. • Food services fund, $21,083,000. • Asset replacement fund, $5,563,300. • Energy effi ciency fund, $1,355,000. • Grants fund, $50,522,936. • Public Employees Re- tirement System debt service fund, $49,300,000. • General obligation debt service fund, $62,254,700. district budget by $3.5 million, she said. She said the district propos- al has the following priorities: • Maintaining current ser- vice levels, including behav- ioral learning. • Investing in full-time equivalent for enrollment growth, especially in special education. • Converting limited-term • Special capital projects fund, $2,860,000. • Preventive and deferred maintenance fund, $2,081,236. • 2018 bond capital projects fund, $433,355,000. • External customers fund, $100,000. • Charter schools services fund, $5,215,000. • Auxiliary services fund, $8,340,000. • Risk management fund, $20,389,500. • Small memorial trust fund, $207,498. • Loretta Isom scholarship fund, $9,518. positions of special education assistants to full time. • Providing transportation resources for boundary adjust- ments. Perry said many factors, in- cluding key performance indi- cators, brought about proposed changes in some of the funds. “Reading and math aren’t what we’d like,” she said. She noted that district drop- out rates usually have been fall- ing, with the 2017-18 rate 3.3 percent, below the state rate of 3.55 percent. Also noted was the 98 percent graduation rate in 2016-17 for students who attended career-technical edu- cation classes. One budget disappoint- ment, she said, is the apparent inability to hire one additional counselor at each comprehen- sive high school, student sui- cides being the main concern. She observed that the dis- trict is in better shape than Portland Public Schools. After the fi rst meeting, the school board met to fi ll a va- cancy on the budget commit- tee, caused by the resignation of Adam Kohler. The board named Cynthia Stinson, who recently missed being appoint- ed by a coin fl ip that followed a tie vote in favor of Tyson Pruett. In the second meeting, which took place on Monday, April 29, Perry acknowledged that adding one counselor at each comprehensive high school is what administra- What’s on your HONEY-DO LIST? 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