I appreciate your input related to our budget as well as you ongoing support for our schools. I did want to make sure you understood the complete context related to these positions. The Area Coordinator positions would be added through an Area Offices reorganization in which seven other positions, including an Area Superintendent, would be eliminated. In the end, we would reduce spending by $100,000 and, I believe, provide better service to both schools and community members. Similarly, the Communications Coordinator would be added through a District Communications reorganization that eliminates from our operating budget two other positions and a contract for services. The total savings here would represent about $140,00. In this case I believe we will need to be creative as we do more with less to provide the same level of service—but we are excited about some upcoming changes that would put our schools and students on Brevard Public Schools television far more than they are now. So in the end, we could have simply stayed with the staffing and organizational structure that we had. Had we done so, however, we would be required to trim $240,000 more from the budget by eliminating more people and/or programs—not less.
Brian T. Binggeli, Ed.D.
Superintendent
Brevard County Schools
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I still have a hard time accepting the need for the new positions, #16 and #19 in Tier I. The end result remains as new positions that do not work directly with our students. The four new positions have an average salary of $74,250*, while the six positions to be eliminated had an average salary of $26,167**. Twelve hands are better than eight hands. The Area Superintendent has been vacant for some time. More hands are the better choice. New spending on a budget, based on reductions, does not look good on paper.
* $297,000 Expense of #16 & #19 on Tier I budget. $297,000/4 = $74,250
** Overall savings $140,000. Cost of #16/#19 $297,000-$140,000 =$157,000. Therefore... $157, 000/6= $26,167.
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