Community Budget Meeting Reports

2017-18 Budget Season Has Concluded

UPDATES

Reynolds School Board adopted a revised budget that included the Oregon House Budget Proposal for K-12 at $8.2 billion, split 50/50 over the 2017-18 and 2018-19 school years. The approved funding level requires reductions. A list of the reductions made over the prior two school years is attached below.

On Friday, July 7, the Reynolds School District Implemented Reductions in Classified Staffing for 2017-18

Reynolds School District reduced nearly $7 million to balance the 2017-18 budget. These cuts were a result of increasing costs, declining enrollment, and insufficient state revenue.
Reynolds Administrators and Reynolds Education Association (licensed staff) and executive level administrators (superintendent, assistant superintendent and Deputy CEO) all agreed to reduce five school days, which will preserve student services and programs by reducing the pay of the administrative and licensed employees.
The district offered the same memorandum that was accepted by the administrators and licensed staff to the classified employee group, but OSEA rejected it.
The district rejected OSEA's couter offer on a memorandum of understanding, which included a 3% cost of living adjustment and a five-day furlough because a five day furlough after a cost of living raise would not increase costs and result in an unbalanced budget, requiring additional costs reductions.
In order to balance the 2017-18 budget, the district used the status quo terms from the prior bargaining agreement, which is required by law when negotiating a new agreement, to reduce classified staffing. The District can reduce hours of classified employees by up to 20% and implement reductions in force upon providing notice to impacted employees. Notices were issued on July 7, 2017.
The district identified 7.4 Classified FTE, filled by nine individuals to be laid off (reduction in force). Additionally, 45 secretarial positions were issued a reduction-of-hours notice. Each secretarial position is being reduced by .5 hours per day or 2.5 hours per week for the 2017-18 work year.

------------ Original Budget Information

The current proposed funding levels for Oregon's public K-12 system, mean that most schools will experience reductions from current service levels. Information for our community was provided on Thursday, April 13 in the cafeteria and Reynolds Middle School. The public unable to attend is invited to review those materials here.

AGENDA