TABLE OF CONTENTS BUDGET MESSAGE 1 INTRODUCTORY SECTION 5 District Entity 6 Governance 6 Board of Education 6 The Role of the Board 6 Decision Making 6 Executive Administration 7 District Organizational Chart 7 District Mission and Goals 8 Mission, Vision and Core Values 8 Strategic Planning 9 Our Schools 10 Enrollment 11 Resident 12 Non-Resident 12 Budgets and Budgetary Accounting 13 Budget Management 13 Budget Cycle 13 Budget Development Process 14 Summary of Significant Account Policies 16 Fund Accounting 16 Revenue 17 Sources of Revenue 17 Estimating Revenue 21 Establishing a Tax Rate 22 Total Revenue by Fund 23 Operating Revenue by Object 24 Expenditures 25 Expenditures by Function 25 Expenditures by Object 25 Total Expenditures by Fund 26 Operating Expenditures by Object 27 Salaries and Benefits 28 School Building & Dept Budgets 29 Capital Expenditures 29 Clayton Recreation Sports & Wellness 30 Family Center 31 Parents as Teachers 32 Early Childhood Special Education 33 Summer Programs 33 Debt Service 33 General Obligation Bonds Outstanding 33 Fund Balance 34 Reporting 37 FINANCIAL SECTION 38 Actual Revenues, Expenditures & Balances 39 Estimated Revenues, Expenditures & Balances 41 Budgeted Revenues Expenditures & Balances 43 Revenue Budget & Four-Year Comparison 45 Estimated Other Revenues by Fund 48 Revised Estimated Prior Year Other Revenues 51 Total Expenditures Function/Fund 54 Location/Fund 57 Function/Object 59 Location/Object 62 Operating Expenditures Function/Fund 64 Location/Fund 67 Function/Object 69 Location/Object 72 Capital Improvement Plan (CIP) Expenditures 74 Business-Type Activities 76 Prior-Year Total Expenditures 78 Four Year Comparison 79 Function/Fund 80 Function/Object 81 Prior-Year Operating Expenditures 82 Four Year Comparison 83 Function/Fund 84 Function/Object 85 GLOSSARY 86 BUDGET MESSAGE As a community, the students, staff, parents and patrons of the School District of Clayton are united in our commitment to student learning. Our mission, vision and core values embody why we are here, what we want our students to become, and the principles that guide our work. The District’s mission to inspire each student to love learning and embrace challenge within a rich and rigorous academic culture and the vision to develop leaders who shape the world through independence, creativity and critical thinking set the standard for the education we provide. The strategic planning process used the District’s mission, vision and core values as a guide to develop strategic themes, objectives and initiatives. The 2019-2020 budget continues to focus on our strategic themes of Academic Excellence, Teacher and Administrator Excellence, Growth and Development of the Whole Child, and Resource Management. An effective learning organization continually takes time to evaluate progress and respond to it. While our District’s strategic plan serves as a guide for where we are going, we also are purposeful about being reflective and making adjustments along the way. The District began working throughout the 2018-2019 school year to develop a new strategic plan, which will guide the District's work for the next three to five years. The first step in this process is starting with the end in mind: our students. We are working to develop a “Profile of a Graduate” that will prioritize the competencies we want for every Clayton graduate. We envision a plan that will influence our approach to learning and challenge the mental models of what our schools look like for our students. In the fall of 2018, we gathered input from the community through a platform called ThoughtExchange. The data collected from this input has been used as a launching point for developing our Profile of a Graduate. Once this work is finalized in the fall of 2019, a new strategic plan will be developed. On April 2, 2019, the Board of Education (Board) asked the community to vote on Proposition E, an operating levy increase of 56 cents per $100 of assessed valuation and an eight-cent waiver of Proposition C sales tax revenues. The voters approved the ballot measure with 64.2 percent of the votes. The net effect of both measures will provide the District with an additional 64 cents of operating revenue, or approximately $7.3 million. The additional revenue will be used to maintain and strengthen the District’s academic excellence and fiscal stability by eliminating the gap between revenues and expenses, addressing facility and maintenance needs and rebuilding reserves. The community's support of Proposition E will have a lasting impact on our schools and our students. Proposition E was placed on the ballot because the District was prudently spending down operating reserves of $175,217 in 2009-2010, $820,654 in 2010-2011 and $2.0 million in 2011-2012. During 2012-2013 and 2013-2014, budget reductions of $935,900 and $1.2 million, respectively, were made both to ensure the District’s resources were allocated to programs that support its mission, vision and core values as well as to secure the District’s ability to continue to provide our students with a rich and rigorous educational experience. The reductions were made with the goal of continuing to align District resources with our priorities but also protect what matters most: our instructional core. An academically-challenging curriculum, our students’ engagement in their learning, and teachers’ knowledge and skills are the three interdependent components of this District. While we reduced our expenditures and made permanent changes to staffing and programs, we did it in a way that protected our instructional core and prioritized organizational and operational impacts in order to minimize the direct impact on our students and their learning. As a result of these reductions and the ability to recoup approximately $5.0 million of protested taxes over three years, operating surpluses of $560,973 in 2012-2013, $1.6 million in 2013-2014, and $2.6 million in 2014-2015 were reported. During fiscal year 2015-2016 the District again began spending down reserves in the amount of $1.7 million due to the payback of over $2.0 million in protested taxes; and 2016-2017 and 2017-2018 continued the trend of spending down reserves with $2.4 million and $2.0 million respectively. The District is projected to continue to spend down reserves in 1