Klarinet Archive - Posting 000584.txt from 2002/10

From: "Roger Benson" <rbenson@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Re: More about school budgets
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:51:45 -0400

Wow, our school doesn't spend a dime on our program and the band
boosters raise about 80 grand a year. They hire a teacher who's
sole purpose is to spend money for the BB's. Maybe we could borrow
that surplus that they have Tim.

-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Roberts [mailto:timr@-----.com]
Subject: [kl] Re: More about school budgets

On Wed, 23 Oct 2002 01:24:10 -0700 (PDT), b5w@-----.net (William
Wright) wrote:
>
>Currently, for grades 4 through 6, our elementary district is
spending
>$200,000 to offer 30 minutes per week of instrumental instruction
to 650
>students. (Quick math: $30 per student per year) There is a
waiting
>list for entry into this program of 60-100 students.

How do you suppose they came up with $200,000? The fully burdened
cost
(including vacation, insurance, pension, taxes) of a full-time
instructor is
probably no more than $70,000. Repair and maintenance of
school-owned
instruments is probably less than $10,000. A luxurious budget for
new music is
probably $2,000.

I don't understand the rest of that figure.

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- Tim Roberts, timr@-----.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

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