[SchoolFinance] Draft budget during negotiations

[Lucie Tabor]

We also use Position-based budgeting which makes it a bit more difficult to
hide the budgeted increases. I do not provide the details by line, I
summarize the budget in a spreadsheet and show grouped categories within
programs, within cost centers.   I explain that when comparing one budget
year to the prior year's budget, there are several factors that come into
play such as staffing changes, retirements (including summer salaries),
changed split positions, changes in hours, etc.  I also include some
additional funds in various benefit lines, which gives me a bit of
flexibility for negotiations.  When asked what we have budgeted for salary
increases, I always state what the COLA is for the current year and that
for the CBAs to be negotiated, we have budgeted enough to ensure we can
negotiate fairly.
With the Min Wage salary increases that will come into play on July 1,
negotiations this year should be really '*fun'*!
Lucie
VUESC (Madawaska, SAD27 and SAD33)

On Thu, Mar 20, 2025 at 11:16 AM Andrea Disch <adisch at msad11.org> wrote:

> Tyler's Profund system utilizes position-based payroll, which we
> incorporate into our budgeting process.
>
> In years when contract negotiations are ongoing, staff members are
> advanced one step on the salary scale for budgeting purposes, and a
> percentage increase is applied to the base salary scale.
>
> This percentage increase is calculated to account for all proposed
> monetary negotiation requests.
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 20, 2025 at 10:53 AM Adam Hanson <
> ahanson at lewistonpublicschools.org> wrote:
>
>> Our recent practice has been to give everyone a step on the current scale
>> and then decide how much more we want as a contingency in total. We then
>> spread that contingency amount across all of the different appropriate
>> salary lines so it doesn't stand out like a sore thumb.
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 19, 2025 at 2:51 PM Daniel Picard <daniel at fayettemecs.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Question for any input you have: When you are in a negotiation year, how
>>> do you handle this in your draft budgets without showing too much
>>> information? (Particularly where you have not negotiated any salaries yet).
>>>
>>> Thank you!
>>> Daniel
>>>
>>>
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-- 
Lucie Tabor
*Director of Finance*
*Valley Unified Educational Service Center (VUESC)*
*Serving the School Districts of MSAD 27, MSAD 33 and Madawaska School
Dept.*
*Upper St. John Valley*
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