AUSD Video Presentation—How Are Schools Funded?

How AUSD is funded and how well we are funded may be quite different than how many assume. This video of the online presentation given at the Albany High School PTSA meeting on November 13, 2023 by AUSD's Chief Business Official shows our funding sources and how they compare to nearby districts. These slides were presented at the Ocean View Elementary PTA meeting earlier this month and CBO Kim hopes to deliver it at PTA meetings at Cornell and Marin Elementary Schools and Albany Middle School in the coming months.

How Are Schools Funded?

Presentation by CBO Jackie Kim at AHS PTSA online meeting of Nov. 13, 2023.

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person does the word job so we have a lot of bridges in California and School District gets funding from very different sources including federal state and communities also very grants and other donations that's how the school district get funding do you see the screen changes or no no I'm okay so you know what let me do something that's okay I think so and so let's talk about fun I know it's you with a lot of account and every fund has a specific so this fun is not servant something for general fund that primary spending account so we all recipe the general fund is a main fan in there are many other so we can pay for everything electricity order utilities water teacher salaries our secretary were critical support salaries in like any meetings or anything supplies as well right East Valley from the general fund now there is some other friends that we have and then I'm going to go buy a little bit of something you see the chart like what we call ACC before and after school program so that should be a separate fund and has orange director has his own operations and programmed or so it has if I'm finding a different state department by the window unit or still gives us a so this is the first service forged a is really what we get out we feed our breakfast and lunch program. and Marine Elementary DC so begging you per student that we receive I am comparing our neighboring districts Emeryville Oakland Berkeley Piedmont in Statewide average West Contra Costa which is Espirito and you will see are there any way in the bottom so when you said I'm not calling them told her students reading you we have living over 15,000 and you will see a movie gets over 32,000 even Berkeley gets over 22,000 so what is my name the 15,000 681 that I have any guests at 70% compared to a Christian. so why you going to be mingies do we can only afford at 70% we can only have a program about 70% we can only pay our teachers only at 70% of the Berkley can afford that's why okay so I put this in this is easier to see it so state Alameda County Everest Berkeley in Auburn University Hey where's are you do you 6 yes I see it and I'm falling alone I'm good evening I'm waiting for me to talk about being the lowest getting the lowest amount of revenues per kid and yet making the greatest academic achievement in spite of I've been underfunded and so when we look at our data with the other comparative say that we are doing some really better than I made it and so thank you that toys so lets me put this together English Language Art Red Line opposite direction the first first money state of California in the very last one is our van in USD in this is where we are okay so let's look at it when we get very little reading your computer and second if this is how this is okay so this is I'm 21 22 set up and then the second one is how does this happen and how this work for us hates it a state and federal revenue order school districts in California in Ricard lcff so we do school districts free mods are in this formula and there's a free part in this phone so it's called a cff base which pretty much almost all the district gets this and now it's cff supplementary for so this is extra condom right on top of that nurse advice so we get extra money for free or reduced-price middle students or info and info are English Learners pretty much low income families on house family for foster care who are English Learners so now something is concentration so this is something the biggest monies are really the biggest on money and really a lot of money now how do you get this money if you who is Cameron Boyce up Stephens again I'm low-income students first and English Learners if those populations are greater than 55% and you get the biggest so when you see or hear when we compare West Contra Costa in Oakland because they have a lot more funding compared to our so here again you will see in the third column fed and statement you will see Emery Oakland in West contract cause it's a lot higher than us because of the now when you do get Piedmont 13,000 160 less than our belly not surprising right because they have a net of those populations let's move to the next so you see a basic Aid in case so what is basically saying hello so what does it makes a difference from the rest of the school district in California so the basic Aid with swiss-a is because they get so much revenue which exists in which school districts that it's just a few not a lot severely let's look at the phone that what we can do what is there anything we can do so what we say Stephen Davis School District which are majority of school districts in California is about 33 million dollars our property tax that we get from our community is about 11 million dollars so when our bucket is about 33 million we get $11 for today extra additional 22 million dollars to let's see I would prefer to text Gustavo we got about 22 million dollars from our community no because it is 33 million dollars please on the stick formula so if even if we get a table 11 million dollars from the sky that's because of our higher property what happened to those not the Saint Helena in Menlo Park Palo Alto School District what different and it is also 33 million they're probably text is 50 million Beyond so do they get to keep everything from the local so even because is there a GFS on formula funding which is so that's why it makes a difference and has a lot more money for both certain districts so when we say that order for Steven's wedding you and there is a little Avery's daily attendance so username however face on attendance not the number of seats so all of these numbers are true but times for us is about 92% of attendance we get to on which is 33 million or 92% so let's say before condemning our attendance was about 96 percent 1.1 * 96% so now we just address for 85% of our Revenue now let's move to the 13% tax you need to California by the local government needed such a city is Texas imposed beer property not based on the value of your so let's say you bought a house last year with almost at 1.8 million and see you bought a house that does not impact any of those ideas in 2122 District received 6.7 million which is 13% of again same thing if any of this expenditures goes more than what we collect than the general fund has to contribute for any of those extra expenditures so this person said what is this for so what's up discuss tomorrow night is the replacement of a price with tax and we get into the details later moving it from a flat to a progressive with the primary I'm focus on recruiting teachers and support staff to Confederate salaries as we begin to anticipate we will not be able to compete and I'm competitive anymore just recently about a year to have to look up a birthday Alameda and peed my pants the price of tax with this phone we need to recruit and retain their the top three brightest teachers and then next week I protect science math Arts reading and language instruction supporting music art and maintain a small class sizes is important take that environment for all students and that's critical and then finally anticipated with the Golden Gate Fields you guys know about all that may be leaving and if it's transferred to another government agency we would lose to as long as we try to be proactive and anticipate on some tomorrow night at 6 p.m. 6 to 7 thank you what how is that the auto 6.7 million dollars so 2.5 we stand on electric really means teacher salaries and benefits and payroll taxes for the elective teachers now Elementary Librarians Library Mental Health Securities Elementary music and states and other programs in the car how we spend our projects when we go back to this chart now let's look at this 2% these and other local wedding you so for the donations and fees so we received about 250,000 from school care things to school every year Venetian Athletics PTA this donation very specific meaning when we get these two nations were fees there's a specific purpose comes with it is very restricted when school carrots give us about 250 every year comes with how they designate how they want us to spend the money so here is noon time out the program do some of the workers compensation 157,000 this is something interesting so what it is is when our employees are out insurance pays cuz they are hurt today we can pick hey inside and picture donation or so is some teachers and principals discretionary that we don't get to use sight and the potato Nation Worcester same thing donation for the same so now let's go to our community give us a lot of money to build a beautiful ocean view and Marvin Elementary so how does this work 95 million dollars from our community are the hours of fruit measure T & E in 2016 in amount of 95 million dollars and this is the how the board approved identification for and you receive orders for project this is how we spend from the so we added another 5.7 million dollars because we received additional funding from the state police car state of facility grant that the Auburn school district is seat in VA about 5.7 million dollars from that in division was the reason was it when this person was passed in 2016 Murray Elementary in 2023 it was not possible to be after 7 years later it wasn't possible to build it the way we wanted to do it with me up with the original vision and so we did what we thought would be prudent and applied for a grant we're really a long shot but you can't make this four major buildings to full School to Annex it 95 million we just had it in school till here in the Bay Area that cost over 200 million thank you so again that's who I was mentioned at all of this project when within the budget so we are really in a tight budget the citizens for community members they overseas monitors and inform the public for any expenditures of the spawn of 95 million in day it should be due on the annual report and we put out to the pool and it's going to happen sometime beginning of the next year too so you were we look at the donations so you know donation is interesting one even it sounds like we are getting a lot of donation compared to others is not so that they get a big donation from Pixar same thing with the West Contra Costa even the 400,000 when you look at the Democratic because they also have several donations that I know of don't buddy nobody we don't have a lot of XP companies who can support us and give us. Did they sign another unfortunate you know where we are in Ark Jackie how much do we get from Target a year that's a pretty big company something which is what we want to replace with this new person but we have and is at $490 each so if you own a home in Albany 800 UK 490 so really important replacement of the supplies for Texas we want to go to Progressive meaning inform horse owners in Albany over 3000 square foot is need to play more than you so it's a curable and it's the right thing to do so this is another really a big reason why we are on changing this time Okay so I need you we have a different demographics right if we have a different but we can't unless we are going to have a lot about donations what donation is that a big part of the total revenues only 2% so then we have a pressure test that we have a control over our community has a so this is just where we are in our tiny because of our demographics and that's where we are in largest are any Christian I do not to get any questions I can answer and any like nothing I have a question for students because it's more money from donations that we would get from the state like any of those other the personal taxes are donations if those additions to the is different from the property in first in the state to spit in the rain Samantha Christian is I know someone actually asked me and other PTA was it what about 11 million even if our property tax we still don't get more money from the state it's good question thank you though any other questions or anything I can clear up excuse me it's Elizabeth speaking the numbers for the partial text surprise me I know it's a wealthy community but how come Brooke Hayes at 6000 and Alameda is at 2000 can you do you know of those the street I understand every in Piedmont but I don't understand broke in that Amanda so they also have Progressive pressure text and what we see and they have big buildings companies bunny we don't so it was nice Emeryville so that. Piedmont a pressure test for residential is a lot higher too. I believe it's almost a nice 2804 Firestone when Armand if you have a 480 and 591 for another person so yes they have a lot higher so is there is there any off ramps for folks that are over a certain age hang those those taxes the the progressive person or the I mean the parcel tax or it does it so we have a senior exemption and Amalia has her hand up I guess anymore I believe it's 65 are there any other questions 65 can you hear me I'm having audio problems okay I did have a question pick it up the number of students or if you're already at all the campuses so that's something that we have been promoting so we are getting really good new program car on Elo so we do not have a lot of space the district the movie just have to be tighter if we can so concerning that ADA a long time ago there used to be a I don't know if it was you that was per day for their absence or is that something so it's not ours is not legal so we cannot charge the parents of school state or PTA you can collect donations I wasn't asking if it was a voluntary back in the day PTA could do why does Christian do on for the voluntary base to Nation okay but when she said DJ can do my specifically the message but that's good to know erase the absence of course just replenish those of the money that the district lost because the student was absent but not to erase apps does anyone have any other questions no okay is there a is there a I'm planning on attending I would love to be able to