Rye NH School Board 11/6/2014 1st Budget Discussion 2015/16 Year.
0:01:00 SB Mandate to have a flat and up 2% budget- critically not counting
Collective Bargaining Agreement being negotiated; (Portsmouth High) tuition
is up 6% which indicates trends in CBA costs.
0:03:36 Flat Budget.
Means down one elementary teacher through cut or attrition -88k and
down one IT position- -114k through not filling expected fill or cut.
0:04:50 Budget drivers of increases.
Middle school fuel, special Ed. , Portsmouth High tuition, Lister Academy,
Etc.
0:07:00 Enrollment Crisis.
Huge double digit declines drives Ryes per pupil cost >$ 17,000 versus Greenland
~$14,000.
0:09:00 Demographic theories of Enrollment.
0:10: Rye claimed to have no buildable land left.
Idea seems to be how do we make cost per pupil go down by increasing enrollment.
0:13:00 Live Births Discussion. Nice analysis.
0:16:00 Confusing Discussion.
Rye has a jumble of tuitioning in and tuitioning out students making verbal driven
analysis problematic.
0:24:00 Building Admin. Costs.
0:25:00 Important discussion on tax rate.
0:29:00 Disection of 29 cent tax rate hike.
0:31:00 Section 4 Salaries.
0:34:00 Requests.
0:37:00 Pride on zero based budget.
0:39:00 Portsmouth Tuition Topic and Rate – up $1,000 per kid roughly.
0:42:00 Mechanics of Taxpayer Say.
Discussion of ‘backup’ warrant if voters reject teacher agreement. Then
Renegotiation and results go back to ‘town meeting’- like deliberative session,
as opposed to broad 1000 – 2000 voters?
0:47:00 Complaining by the public about social studies teachers for 6th grade.
0:51:00 Steve Borne- strategic population questions.
0:52:00 Common Core typing skills.
0:54:00 Peter Crawford requests library room taping of full day SB budget session.
Peggy Balboni non- committal.
0:55:00 Health care costs.
0:57:00 Borne advice on budget analysis.
0:61:00 Marion on Social Studies.
0:67:00 No disparaging.
0:68:00 Hillman questions on getting parents involved.
0:70:00 Civic News.
0:72:00 NHS.
