The School Board discussed how to close the $2.1 million gap in the Operating Budget at the School Board\u2019s budget add\/delete work session on Thursday evening.<\/p>\n
After hearing the Superintendent\u2019s recommended reductions, the School Board made it clear that they want to include the full step increase for staff effective July 1 in the Operating Budget for FY 2018. Staff will now engage in the process to determine future reductions in order to fulfill this goal.<\/p>\n
ACPS was left with a $2.1 million gap after the City Council approved the budget last week.<\/p>\n
The School Board\u2019s suggested add\/deletes will be published on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
The School Board also discussed how to balance the Capital Improvement Program budget. Last week, the City Council approved a Capital Improvement Program allocation of $19 million for FY 2018. This FY 2018 allocation was reduced by $13.5 million from the previous City Council Approved Capital Improvement Program. In order to keep pace with growing enrollment and capacity needs, the Superintendent is proposing that $1.3 million of the FY 2018 budget be allocated to relocatables at the high school and middle schools.<\/p>\n
As part of his proposal the Superintendent included $8 million for land acquisition in FY 2018. However, School Board members questioned whether this was sufficient to purchase the land that would be necessary for a school or swing space in Alexandria.<\/p>\n
A Task Force has been developed by the City to develop and review ongoing City and Schools Capital Improvement Program projects.<\/p>\n
There are two more add\/delete sessions on <\/em>May 18 and May 23<\/em><\/strong>, both at 7 p.m. in the School Board meeting room at Central Office, 1340 Braddock Place. All meetings are open to the public.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The School Board discussed how to close the $2.1 million gap in the Operating Budget at the School Board\u2019s budget add\/delete work session on Thursday evening. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":565,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-announcements"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-16 08:37:27","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3047"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3049,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3047\/revisions\/3049"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}