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Thursday, March 03, 2005
The Howard County Board of Education day before yesterday approved a $512.6 million budget for next school year that includes a placeholder for a cost-of-living pay raise for teachers and support staff equivalent to 3 percent.
The Howard County Education Association and school officials have yet to work out the details of contracts for both groups. Teachers and staff personnel are in the final year of three-year contracts that expire June 30.
The 3 percent pay raise adds about $19 million to Superintendent Sydney L. Cousin`s $493.1 million budget proposal.
Last week, the school board also added about $260,000 to Cousin`s request to add golf as a high school varsity sport and hire an additional budget analyst, an internal auditor and a Web master.
The budget request for fiscal year 2006 - which will be forwarded to County Executive James N. Robey - represents an 11 percent increase from this year`s $461 million budget.
School board members acknowledge that they will have to make cuts - as much as $10 million - because Robey wants to keep the school budget from growing more than 7 percent a year.
Board members said the school system has kept its request at a minimum and implored parents and Howard County citizens to support its budget.
Of the total $512.6 million, the school system is seeking $371 million - or $36 million more than this year - from the county. The school system would get $136 million in state funds, which is about $1 million less than what officials expected. The rest would come from the federal government and other sources.
Kaufman expressed concern that county money for schools and other agencies would be unpredictable in light of County Council Chairman Guy Guzzone`s intentions to lower taxes under legislation that he plans to introduce in mid-April. County revenues have picked up since the county raised the local income tax rate from the third lowest in the state to the top rate allowed by law.
Guzzone said yesterday he supports Robey`s goal of ensuring long-term growth for the school system at 7 percent.
The school budget for next year includes money to expand full-day kindergarten to 12 more schools for a total of 19, replace textbooks for a cost of $2.5 million, add 208 teachers and create 28 positions for maintenance and plant operations.
The budget also reflects an 18 percent increase in fixed costs for such things as health insurance, utilities and transportation.
Robey will release his budget proposal to the County Council on April 18. Then the County Council will hold a public hearing and a series of work sessions before approving the budget in late May.
Robey will hold a public hearing at 7:30 p.m. March 10 to hear from residents about general budget concerns.
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