A WA parliamentary question seeks detailed financial information about Bunbury Senior High School's reserve funds, including the breakdown, asset replacement allocations, and parent contributions. The answer provides a detailed breakdown of the school's finances and asset replacement plans.

AnsweredQoN 1189Legislative Assembly
Asked
10 September 2013
Portfolio
Education

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I refer to the list of Western Australia’s Richest 100 Public Schools that was printed in the West Australian on 30 August 2013 and sourced to the Department of Education and I ask in respect to the amount of $913,974.09 for Bunbury Senior High School: (a) at what date was this amount standing in the school’s reserve fund; (b) what is the break-down of the components that make up this figure; (c) how much of this amount is allocated to the replacement of assets: (i) what assets are to be replaced; and (ii) how much has been allocated to replace each asset; (d) of the amount in the reserve fund, how much are parent contributions for school fee; and (e) of the amount in the reserve fund, how much is unallocated for any "specific purpose"?

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Answered
16 October 2013
Responded by
Minister representing the Minister for Education
Response time
36 days
(a) $913,974.09 was the total amount held in the school's bank account/s as at 30 June 2013. Included in this figure is the school's reserve fund.
(b)
School Name
Opening
Balance
Revenues
Expenses
General Fund Bal
1
Reserves
Suspense A/C - Tax
Bank A/C
2
BUNBURY SHS (4008)
384,226.62
845,100.52
624,639.82
604,687.32
276,937.16
32,349.61
913,974.09
1 General Fund Balance = Opening Balance + Revenues - Expenses
2 Bank A/C = General Fund Balance + Reserves + Suspense A/C-Tax
(c) $276,937.16
(i) what assets are to be replaced?
(ii) how much has been allocated to replace each asset? ($)
Faults Management - building repairs through breakdown/faults as they arise (these cannot be planned)
47,159.00
Air conditioning - Student Services staff offices and foyer
24,618.00
Furniture - Room 28 computer chairs
3,872.21
Country Week Uniform - team uniform replacement - football, basketball and hockey
7,437.96
Technology - student laptops
2,309.10
Library resources - fiction book replacement
4,365.50
Building Upgrade - Classroom wall insulation to new Yr 7 building, Upgrade of English staff office, upgrade of junior girls toilet
78,693.22
Curriculum Reserve - calculators class set of 32, surfboards, portable PA system, lower school class sets of texts - Science, S&E, Maths and English, knives and cutlery and virtual babies for Home Ec
68,816.00
Cleaning Equipment replacement - Scrubbing machine, straight line polishing machine, extraction machine, blower back pack, whipper snipper and brushcutter
16,320.60
Plant/Equipment - holden and ford engine stand in Industrial Workshop, kiln
3,445.57
Grounds Reserve - , blower back pack, whipper snipper and brushcutter
4,950.00
Conferencing Equipment - to support senior school classes
10,000.00
Non Curriculum reserve - box trailer
4,950.00
Total
276,937.16
(d) Not applicable. Parent contributions are not applied to reserve funds.
(e) Not applicable. All funding in reserves is allocated - refer to Question (c).

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