1. Additional Ideas – Reductions Over $100,000
Athletic programs cut ties with Community Ed. Tom Davies did this to make $ for comm. Ed.
JM/Mayo/Century programs are now suffering. It doesn't work anymore.
Separate three High School athletic programs. Allow them to generate revenue. Like ISD 196 ‐
Rosemount, AV, Eagan, Eastview
Charge for night school, summer school, credit recovery, close pools at all sites with pools
Note on: (Implement Alternate Secondary Schedule) Require contract change!
Cluster buildings ‐ offer choice within the chluster ‐ help w/execptions, AYP & will ???
Cut arts?
Re‐engage the revenue generating committee and promote it (w/updates/meetings by memo/REA
update
Reassess small schools ‐ combine admin duties such as GATE, ELL, Title, etc.
Renogitiate teacher contracts to be more in‐line with the other District contracts ‐ hold REA accountable
Eliminate Hospital Days
Note on: (Reduce Reading Staffing) teachers, not paras
Note on: (Reduce and/or eliminate Curricular Programs) Eliminate Adult Lit, SACC
Increase of $100,000 revenue from Ads
Note on: (Reduce Collaboration Time within the School Day) Already done
Consolidate Districts for Staff Development & supply purchases
Partner with City & other Local Districts for energy purchases (fuel, electic, gas)
Block classes at the high school
Reduce transportation for Choice Schools
Sell land at Burr Oak and Sky?(Highway 14)
Combine Churchill Hoover, move Golden Hill
Make 12th grad optional (as per Utah's legislative proposal ‐ CBS 5/26)
Take the reduced administrators ‐ hire them to do Gifted & Talented/ESOL
Trimesters ‐ eliminate non student contact day, report card printing & change HS schedule

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Having some staff work from home ‐ could close buildings or consolidate building use by sharing office
space for when the staff need to be on site
On‐line learning cources ‐ revenue
Early retirement incentives
Look carefully at small elementary schools Longfellow, Folwell, Washingtion & Pinewood ‐ Is it time to
cut elementary administration for schools under 300‐350 students?
45‐15 schedule ‐ close schools during high energy months
Quit paying for graduation cap/gowns ‐ $25,000 savings
Cut para time on late start/early release days
Move Golden Hill to Friedell ‐ sell to WalMart
Close Friedell ‐ move to Golden Hill to Friedell
Change advertising Board Policy ‐ for example Pepsi on scoreboards, vending machines, allow
advertising on public website
Combine buildings for admin ‐ or assign additional duties to admin in small buildings (i.e., ESOL or Gifted
to Friedell or Folwell)
Cut technology series, every building have there own support, contract other services out
Hire out all maintenance services
One AD for all high schools
Outside departments (i.e., cleaning, grounds, snow, sell equipment and off set costs)
Move Athletic Directors to Assistant Principals and move AAs at high school level
Reduce Edison Admin staff/positions (3)
increase online offerings to attract out of district students
Use local experts to provide training
Sell District not in use.
Contract out more work/eliminate District staff
Cut insurance benefits/pay for dental coverage for all staff
Cut salaries on staff making over 100,000

3. cut $10,000 from all employees making over $80,000/year
close Friedell x10
Close swimming pools x4
cut 1 cabinet member x2
cancel ER /LS
extended boundaries for transportation
close Golden Hill x2
Reduce Admn. Downtown
Cut salaries to Board Members
Stop overtime for 2nd shift and ground crew.
Covert to own VOIP System.
Eliminate Overtime.
Eliminate all overtime pay. Departments need to work smarter ‐ not longer!!
Limit Administrative staff in the summer.
Limit overtime payout all year.
Sell or rent out Gage East.
Deploy Smart Projectors instead of Smartboards "and" projectors.
Eliminate overtime for everyone.
Grounds Crew ‐ Work 2nd shift, no overtime needed. We pay overtime for this now and it makes no
sense.
Wind Turbine
Solar‐wind
Reduce utilities use.
Solar panels, green switches.

4. Sell used equipment using Craig's list, E‐Bay, E‐Bay Classifieds, These are free services. Stop using Public
Surplus.
Cut at least one cabinet position
Eliminate Success Coaches
Cut GIP
45/15 schedule
All day everyday Kindergarten‐‐parents pay for 1/2 day portion
cut aimsweb
fall testing‐‐stanford and baseline scott foresman give similar information
preschool‐‐parents pay for it
Eliminate Success Coaches and
Eliminate Success Coaches and Efficacy coaches
Eliminate Director of School Improvement and Accountability and secretary‐newest cabinet postion
should be eliminated due to budget
Eliminate choice schools and have all schools neighborhood schools‐save on transportation
Have choice school parents pay for student transportation to choice schools
streamline transporation costs‐sending a huge bus for 1 kid or a few kids not efficient
Time sheeting by staff for monitoring classes during the workday
Eliminate overtime across entire district
Go back to school bussed for athletics – no coach busses
Cut sports opportunities for both males and females
Consolidate schools with low attendance – including before and after programs, including languages,
special studies, SACC, if need be transport students from one point to another
No busing in the city. Only bus students in rural areas. Students can start walking to get exercise and cut
obesity. Parents need to make more effort in raising their children and taking more responsibility
instead of the district expected to do it all.
Transportation – buses should be close to capacity. There should not be 10 kids on a 65 passenger bus.
Cut all administrators salaries that already are over $100,000 each.

5.
Raise ticket prices at school sporting/non‐sporting events.
Reduce/eliminate overtime (weekends, after hour’s work that can be completed during regular work
day).
All schools have security lights that are left on all night – could we save anything by shutting down those
lights?
There is way too much contract services coming out of MSB depts. that should do the work is always
contracted out.
Cut athletic managers and have phy‐ed teachers work together to displace athletic leads
A/C ‐ I freeze most of the summer in my office – I would not object to being a “little” warm if it means $
to students instead
Create on‐line school for revenue, i.e. more students in district
Look at having our own bus company for district.
Ask one school to give up hot lunch (have them ask the parents first) then take turns, changing schools
each year
Do not allow staff (teaching) to timesheet, hire subs to cover teacher’s absence – cheaper than paying a
teacher to sub. (This means need to increase subs available or limit number of code days taken at one
time)
Combine activity directors into one position
Do staff development for teachers during the summer
Overall reduction of salaries – district wide – same percentage of reduction
Work with teachers union regarding teaching differently. Example: lecture style classes for students who
plan on attending college, online classes. Serve larger number of students – teachers would have more
students.
Possibly everyone should pay for a portion of medical insurance
Eliminate secondary payments on insurance. Very few companies pay secondary.
If every employee took a 2% wage cut – how many dollars would that be annually?
Paras should not have to stay for late start/early release: Time without pay
Reduce Cabinet Members
Implement an On‐line school that would attract students from outside of the district.
Develop a Math/Science Magnet school

6.
Pick up garbage from buildings once over summer, every other or once every third day diring school
year‐save on gas, save on personnel
Have Phy‐Ed taught by Para every other class time (para trained by Phy Ed teacher)
Year Round School‐move forward for future
Close Friedell‐stramline into existing Middle Schools
Better Building temperature and light usage‐buildings are over air conditioned and lights are left on in
empty rooms and restrooms
Eliminate Positions‐High Paying Salaries
Significantly reduce consumable curriculum
Is there a way you can give the community more detail on how levy $ would be spent
Corporate sponsors
Consier 45/15 calendar‐not sure if it would be cost effective‐but may save money in regard to
transportation costs, faculty, maintenance, heat
Programs like Efficacy‐waste of money
Cabinet positions
Downtown staff‐cabinets, efficacy training/ coaches
No more late start/early release days
Put all schools on 45/15 schedule (K‐12)
Needed: Visible Strategic Planning on how to provide effective education
Eliminate Cabinet positions!
Reduce non‐child (student) contact positions throughout the district
Think outside the box about a Superintendent position
I think Efficacy Training has been vastly overdone
Payout incentive for retirement for those that can retire
Cut Field trips‐focus on academics
Get back to neighborhood schools

7. Start On‐Line Academy to generate student numbers.
Grant Writing to bring money into the district. Federal Grants for specific demographic groups.
Make sure all jobs created during the year are relevant and money is used wisely for new position/job.
Possible back‐up childcare for district employees like the clinic.
Give secondary school students bus passes instead of running buses for them. City bus service is
subsidized anyway‐‐let's give them more passengers.
Get the Rochester students back from Byron, Dover‐Eyota and Stewartville.
Put up advertisements in our buildings sponsored by businesses. Sell advertising on school buses as well
as on school products and in buildings.
All sites need to house excess furnishings and equipment in a central location which would monitor
allocations, purchasing of new items, as well as resale.
Cut Efficacy.
Sell cell phone space on school grounds.
Offer daycare and/or summer school for profit.
Hire a PR firm to promote all the good things in the RPS.
Advertise staff development to other districts and their staff can pay for these offerings.
Eliminate Education Summit
Eliminate I.A.'s
Eliminate: district administration and administrative assistant positions, Volunteer Coordinator, Staff
Development Director, School Improvement positions, ESC Reading Specialist, and administrative
support positions.
Allow Title funds to go back into the day ‐ No ASA
Seek ways to bring in funds ‐ Can athletic teams, bands, drama clubs be sponsored by businesses in
exchange for advertising? Money would go to the general fund and not individual schools or the
programs they sponsor. I know this is annoying, but there are ads everywhere.
Cut all the data collection and the personnel it takes to record it ‐ put more teachers in classrooms
Year round schools
Offer a real on‐line/virtual school‐ bring those students back to our district
get rid of reading and math intervention teachers

8.
eliminate/reduce Community education
attract home‐school/private schools to enroll for certain activites and charge a fee for those courses
Parents pay for transportation to choice schools or close choice schools.
Eliminate staffing for the Efficacy program and the entire hired overpriced staff associate with it. Use the
money for basics. Eliminate now!
Don’t spend money on activities like this. Just talk to people‐directly‐no more efficacy training. Enough!
Change staff development ER/LS days to full days off (non student day‐ no busses.)
Cut district administration (Superintendent people.)
Negotiate cost of transportation with the bus company.
Resignation of the Superintendent and cabinet.
Students in credit recovery or ALC should be held accountable for wasting tax payers money the 1st time
through the system. These students vying to graduate by retaking classes should have to pay.
Reduce the Superintendent cabinet by three people. Quit hiring all these outside firms and use the
people that we already have in the district. Is a success coach necessary when we are trying to save
money!
Eliminate late starts and early releases or combine it into 2 full days‐ transportation savings.
Offer /buy out senior staff for early retirement. Benefits would need to match the rule of 90 benefits,
though.
Cut a district administration by at least two people.
Cut all ESOL classes or charge for the service. Require all students to be legal citizens.
Close Edison and ESC (maintenance and utility cost eliminated) and house those offices in building with
students. Housing leadership within the day‐ to –day operations of the district will also reduce the
disconnect that most staff feel with district leadership.
Seriously review bussing‐ more people should be responsible for getting their children to and from
school.
Reduce staff not directly working with students
Eliminate Stanford testing (6 noted)
Reduce district level administrative salaries
Reduce administrative salaries (building)
Explore region wide admin. services/consolidation of admin. services into county‐wide services. Pool
administrative services with surrounding districts.

9. Reduce use of code 7s for sub services
Close middle school pools
One year reduce/building upgrades or scheduled big maintenance jobs
Reduce District and/or Building Administration: District (2), Director of School Improvement
Layoffs (permanent reduction in work force): Permanent, Edison Office
Reduce transportation costs: Change transportation for choice schools, no bussing for choice school (3),
no for choice and private, go to one mile,
Furloughs (temporary non‐paid leave of absence, can be one or more days: for non‐classroom teachers,
last week of school
Reduce benefits/health (changes in benefit coverage and district costs to employee): especially ½ time
employees
Four Day Work Week: #1 utilities, #2 stress‐staff, #3 reduces day care for parents
Reduce Athletic, Co‐Curricular and Extra Curricular Activities: if balanced between types of activities
Delay new purchases
Reduce and/or eliminate curricular programs: gifted?, Students should be identified with testing‐not
just personal identifying factors
Need all day every day kindergarten
Delay textbook purchase: should not have bought new social studies for K‐3
Reduce high cost course offerings: charge a fee
4 Day Week
Part time contracts should have district pay part of insurance premiums based on contract
Choice school bussing be eliminated
Limit insurance to 0.5 employees. If you work 0.5 you do not receive the same benefits as if you worked
full time
Reduce GATE
Reduce Behavior specialists
Choice schools pay for their own transportation
Reduce high paid staff at Edison by 1 person
Reduce costs at Leadership level/high salaries of $100,000 no student contact

10. Eliminate 1‐2 administrative positions
Turn Temp down 2‐5 more degrees in winter
No longer offer education to students over 19 years of age.
Cut/Reduce salaries of the district employees at HR/Superintendent/principals
Eliminate GIP program
Lighting timers with motion (Bathroom, Gym, Classrooms)
Charge for transportation to nonpublics and choice schools if not in typical boundary
Eliminate insurance service building and staff; explore insurance comp
Open 1 building for kinder only; all kinders bussed to that site frees up rooms in over crowded schools
Increase K to all day, everyday and get students to grade level early to reduce the need for interventions
and eliminate 12th grade
All TOSA return to classroom
Eliminate at least 1 cabinet level position
Turn off Air Conditioning in all buildings especially non student spaces
Explore more online classes or starting an online K‐12 school for Homeschoolers/kids in hospital
Ideas from Edison
Implement a District-wide internship program. Many positions could be eliminated and replaced with college

11. internships. Provide a small stipend instead of paychecks to staff. Many other government organizations
implement large-scale internship programs.
Do not fill E & S Director position.
Since RPS provides a quality education for all students - why do we have so many choice schools? Are they
costing us more $ to operate than if they used our great curriculum that we already have? Can we cut down on
transporting so many students by using these buildings as neighborhood schools?
Using solar system or wind energy for the future.
Less freedom for areas to purchase whatever they feel is "needed" just to let it sit in the supply closets. Less
spending money left in accounts the end of the year just to use that money so that we get the same amount in that
budget the next year. Not providing transportation to IT - in transition - costs a lot.
Less "support" for IT - in transition - transporting to any school is costly.
Reduce staff in Insurance by 2 positions - shift savings if possible.
Eliminate construction services, use vendors. Outsource transportation. Put freeze on hiring new teachers with
Masters. We are paying new teachers at the top of scale.
Reduce traveling teachers - so mileage doesn't need to be paid for traveling between buildings. Increase hours
(for teachers) worked to be able to have insurance benefits.
A district in the cities is reducing H.S. classes from 7 periods a day to 6 - fits into reducing class time.
Alternative high school schedule.
Eliminate Efficacy training for now since extra staff is required which means pay of extra hours to employees
and not enough progress or even support from teachers as to the methods used in Efficacy. (Some) teachers are not
even following the different strategies.
Cluster together smaller buildings similar to Churchill/Hoover to ? the number of students at each grade level.
You may be able to have "smaller" classes rather than 1 large class of a teacher + a pt time teacher.
Cut out stipends for staff that are exempt. They are salary employees and a lot of the items they are paid for by
these stipends should be covered by their contract.
Create a staff development center for southern Minnesota and offer classes to other districts.
Reduce the administrative staff and salary in buildings. Reduce overtime - being abused.
Explore new HS schedule i.e. 5x3. Raise secondary class size.