1. If I take the 500.000 increase in the budgeted amount for cap. expenditures and add it to last years budgeted amount I get a higher number then this years current budget where did this money go to. Please tell me what other accounts have money moved to other accounts when you add this years increase to last years budgeted amount

3. What percentage of grades had an increase in the number of students as the grade moved from one year to the next over the last three years how many had a decrease, are these statistics consistent with our budgeting for contingent teaching positions

4. What is the recommended increase in our health care costs as given to us from our health care professionals and what would be the cost savings if we used their number, please justify your use of a higher percentage.

5. Do we have a bus replacement plan or tell me how you decided on nine new vans and not 3.. What did the Whalen report recommend as a replacement cycle, and why don't we adopt that cycle

6. I thought the estimate for this years legal expense increase was less then 100K for the Pound Ridge Case please tell me why we need a $200K increase on top of our normal amount,

7 As discussed in the meeting please prepare a Certiorari analysis on a year by year basis and therefore a new recommendation for our Certiorari account balance

Memo

8. Please explain why schools with larger student population such as BV (392 act 421 proj) and MK (408 act 433 proj) have smaller staffing needs then WP (378 act 395 act):

BV staff (less ESL) 31.2 13.49 staff to student ratio

MK staff (less ESL) 33.4 12.96 staff student ratio

W P staff (less ESL) 35.4 11.16 staff student ratio, a 21% difference between WP and BV

9. Protected High School enrollment is going down (874 to 868) yet staffing needs are going up(93 05 to 95 25) please elaborate as to why this is happening.

10. By tenure area in the High School please tell me (for the 96-97 year) how many classes have 0-10 students 11-15 students 16-25 students and over 25 students.

11. Please tell me what the FTE Classroom teacher to student ratio is in the High School. 12. Please list the last 5 years of actual and originally budgeted state aid.

13. When I add together the following account codes 2110.120 and 2110.130 both 96-97 budget and 96-97 actual there is a difference of $633,169 how much of this is accounted for from teacher retirements, is the remainder taken out of the 97-98

proposed budget

14. Please provide for the last three years an actual verses original budget with a difference column, I do not need it by sub account code by 4 digit account code would be fine.