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-
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