List of Valley View Cuts from the 2009-10 Budget

Valley View schools have been lucky to dodge most of the budget cuts over the last two years. The administrative office, though, cannot boast the same.

The district has eliminated more than $20 million in operational expenses.

More cuts will need to be made this year as a whirlwind of declining revenue and lack of state funds have produced the perfect storm for many school districts around the state.

Some of the bigger cuts the district made this past year:

Operational Cuts

• Delay of capital expenditures in the Building Operations Department ($949,000)
• A reduction in the use of contractual speech teachers ($700,000)
• Delaying scheduled new textbook purchases. ($687,000)
• Work hour efficiencies in the Transportation Department ($600,000)
• Transfer Phoenix Experience to Bolingbrook High School ($515,000)
• Administrative pay freeze ($270,000)
• Elimination of elementary summer school ($230,000)
• The elimination of sixth-grade volleyball and basketball teams ($195,000)
• A 20 percent reduction in supply and equipment purchases ($185,000)
• Reduction in the number of after-school activity buses ($165,000)
• Reduction in MIS software maintenance and support ($135,000)
• Transportation Department fuel usage reduction ($100,000)
• Transportation Department overtime reduction ($95,000)
• 60 percent reduction in K-5 instructional materials ($80,000)
• Reduction of copy paper use throughout the district ($75,000)
• Reduction of non-emergency overtime in Department of Building Operations ($75,000)
• Reduction of four bus routes closer than 1.5 miles to the schools they serve ($70,000)
• Reduction in the use of substitute teachers ($60,000)
• Elimination of bowling from the PE curriculum ($40,000)
• Miscellaneous reduction in personnel ($25,000)
• Elimination of after-school detention at high schools ($23,000)
• 25 percent reduction in 6-12 instructional materials ($20,000)
• 10 percent reduction in postage costs ($19,000)

Staff Reductions

• Four administrators: one assistant superintendent, the director and assistant director positions at the Phoenix Experience and the director of professional development.
• 18 general education teaching positions, including four Phoenix Experience positions 
• 12 program aides
• Three bilingual staff positions
• Three one-on-one special education parapros at the Valley View School District Early Childhood Center
• Two and a half instructional parapro positions
• Two deans positions, one at each Bolingbrook and Romeoville high schools
• One security position at the Phoenix Experience
• Half of a maintenance position