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Subject: FY 2025 Budget Priorities Resolution

 

 

Staff Contact: Christina Setlow, Clerk of the School Board

 

 

Other Staff Present:  Cristy Coffey, Senior Executive Administrative Assistant to Dr. Ricardy Anderson, Chair of the Budget Committee

 

 

Meeting Category: January 25, 2024 - Action Item

 

 

Summary/Background (Key Points): See below for resolution language and follow-on language.

 

 

Recommendation:  That the Board approve the FY25 Budget Priorities Resolution

 

   

Motion: FY2025 Budget Resolution

I move to direct the Superintendent to develop a student-focused, equitable, and needs-based Proposed Budget for FY2025, aligned to the Division’s Strategic Plan and inclusive of the board's strategic budget priorities of:  

  • FCPS workforce recruitment and retention to include competitive compensation with consideration for differentiated pay for hard to fill positions such as teachers in Title 1 schools and special education teachers; 
  • student academic success, access to enrichment and mental health supports, and the closing of achievement gaps;
  • school safety and security;
  • maintaining or lowering class sizes and accelerating expansion of preschool options including inclusive preschool offerings; and
  • increasing universal breakfast and lunch opportunities and reducing school meal debt.

 

The Superintendent’s proposed budget should include the criteria and rationale utilized by staff to prioritize division needs and a response to the School Board’s resolution.

 

Follow-on motion

I move to direct the Superintendent to present to the Board, by February 29, 2024, recommendations detailing scope, sequence and timeline for a comprehensive and cyclical efficiency review, aligned to the Strategic Plan, of all division programs, to include a rationale and prioritization of what can be accomplished to inform the annual budget process in FY26 and beyond.