School Budget

MEDT 6461: Administration of School Library

Stacy Andrade
 Proposed Three Year Budget for 2018-2019/2019-2020/2020-2021

Jordan Vocational High School has a current student population of 741. There is a heavy
male population with 66% of the school being male while only 44% is female. The school is
fairly evenly split ethnically speaking, with 55% of the population being African American, 33%
White, 7% Hispanic, 4% multi-ethnic, and less than 1% American Indian and Asian. 100% of the
students qualify for free and reduced lunch. The students receiving Special Education services
total about 21%. The school does not have a Parent Teacher Organization (PTO).

In an interview with the current librarian, Mrs. Breland, it was determined that the library
receives a little over $8,000 per year. She stated that the funds come from money allotted to the
school from taxes (QBE). She also stated that the money is typically used to purchase books and
materials for the media center. This year she spent some of the money on materials for a maker
space as well. Mrs. Breland said that she does not participate in Scholastic book fairs because
students do not make purchases at such fairs at the high school level.

At Jordan Vocational High School, the school will be going through a tremendous change
this next year as all administrators are leaving and being replaced with new people. In addition to
the administration change, there is a turn over of almost 20 other faculty members. The school is
also in the process of applying for a grant to become the county’s college and career academy.
Another consideration for the library is the autism wing at Jordan High School. Students in this
wing are reading low level elementary books but need the opportunity to use the library just like
their non-autistic peers.

In order to advance towards the mission statement of the school library media program of
fostering critical thinking and communication skills for its students and community in order to
promote successful, lifelong learners, the SLMS would like to present the following sample
budget, to be addressed by the stakeholders as follows:
 2018-2019 2019-2020 2020-2021 Total

Print Materials
Books 2,200 4,200 4,200 10,600
Periodicals & Ledger 400 400 400 1,200
Enquirer Subscription

Digital Materials
ebooks 500 500 500 1,500

Equipment
Chrome books 1,700 1,700 1,700 5,100
Epson projector 2,000 2,000

software 200 200 200 600

Art supplies 500 500 500 1,500

Administrative 500 500 500 1,500

8,000 8,000 8,000 24,000

Books: The collection will be weeded and refreshed. Continuous student wish list helps to
choose fiction titles. In addition, high interest non-fiction is to be added to accommodate
common core standards. Selection of lower level fiction and nonfiction books will be increased
to accommodate the growing population in the autism wing of the school.

Periodicals & Subscriptions: Multiple subscriptions to the local paper, the Columbus Ledger
Enquirer, will continue as they are used by students and teachers alike. Due to increased student
interest, Magazine subscriptions will be added to the budget.

Ebooks: Students have just begun to realize that ebooks are available for checkout and the
selection of available books will increase. Student requests have been mostly for fiction books in
this category although some non-fiction will be purchased to try to increase student reading of
non-fiction and adhere to common core standards.

Equipment: Ten chromebooks will be purchased each year for three years to complete a class
set of 30. Chromebooks will be available for use in the media center so that students may work
on projects. In addition, an Epson projector will be purchased and installed to create a space for
students to present and work through ideas together and hold study sessions before and after
school. Students will be encouraged to use this space to communicate and collaborate on ideas as
determined by our mission statement.

Software: A minimal amount of the budget will be allotted to software and students and teachers
are learning and promoting free software such as Google Suite, Canvas, S’more, Canva, and
Piktochart.

Art supplies: A small amount of art supplies will be purchased and made available to students
trying to complete projects for “old school” teachers who have not yet embraced technology.

Administrative: This part of the budget has been set aside for miscellaneous items such as
storage, incentives, décor, and systems cost. Part of this money may be used towards the weekly
book club meetings.