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[Thomas Pajewski]

2008-09 Budget Development Process Underway

During a special meeting on December 19, the Albemarle County School Board
will hear the Superintendent¹s Funding Request for the 2008-09 school year.
The presentation by Superintendent Pam Moran marks the beginning of the
School Board process for creating a budget proposal for next school year.
The School Board must submit a budget proposal in February 2008 to the
Albemarle County Board of Supervisors for review and approval.

The Superintendent¹s Funding Request presentation begins at 6:30 p.m. on
December 19 in Lane Auditorium in the Albemarle County Office Building,
located at 401 McIntire Road in downtown Charlottesville.

Please visit the School Division website at
www.k12albemarle.org/board/budget <http://www.k12albemarle.org/board/budget>
for more information about the budget development process and how you can be
involved.
 



Efficiency Study Results Presented to School Board
 
Results from a five-month study commissioned by Albemarle County Public
Schools to suggest options the division can explore to maximize use of
resources was presented to the School Board at its December 6, 2007 meeting.
 
The 58-page Resource Utilization Study report from the Commonwealth
Educational Policy Institute (CEPI) at Virginia Commonwealth University was
presented by Dr. William Bosher, a former Virginia superintendent of schools
who serves as the CEPI executive director. The primary purpose of the report
is to assist the division in identifying ways to better align and allocate
its resources to support achievement of strategic planning goals. The report
included 176 findings and observations, and 117 recommendations in eight
focus areas. 
 
Bosher presented the School Board with a summary of the report focused on 19
key issues. He described Albemarle County Public Schools as a division with
ambitious goals and a results-focused culture.
 
³I have been in every school division in Virginia and this is an outstanding
school district. The real issue is not whether or not you have the right
values, it¹s about whether or not you can afford the values at the rate at
which you might want to implement them,² Bosher told the School Board.
 
The School Board did not take action on any findings in the Resource
Utilization Study Report during its December 6, 2007 meeting. It established
a plan for thorough review of the CEPI findings. The review will begin at a
School Board work session December 13 at 6 p.m. when Board Members will have
the opportunity to ask Bosher questions about the report and begin
prioritizing findings to be explored by division staff for short-term and
long-term planning purposes. The meeting will be held in Room 320 of the
Albemarle County Office Building at 401 McIntire Road in Charlottesville.
The report is available to the public online at
http://schoolcenter.k12albemarle.org/Board/resourcestudy
<http://schoolcenter.k12albemarle.org/Board/resourcestudy> .
 
³We know there will be some findings the School Board may want to consider
in the 2008-09 school year budget development process and others that will
require more long-term consideration. The goal for both the short-term and
long-term is to use the information to create efficiencies in our school
system,² said Superintendent Pamela Moran, Ed.D.
 
The Resource Utilization Study was requested by the School Board in June
2007 as a strategy for achieving the Albemarle County Public Schools¹
strategic planning goal to establish efficient systems for development,
allocation and alignment of resources to support the division¹s vision,
mission and goals. 
 

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