[1.01 Call to Order]
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          GOOD MORNING EVERYONE. WE'RE GOING TO GO AHEAD AND GET STARTED HERE. WE'RE GOING TO CALL TO ORDER THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF CECIL COUNTY FY27 BUDGET WORK SESSION. WE'RE GOING TO START THINGS OFF WITH THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE. 
          [1.02 Pledge of Allegiance
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I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS, ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL. AND BEFORE WE GET STARTED, JUST A QUICK POINT OF ORDER HERE. OUR BOARD PRESIDENT, MS. DIANE HEATH, IS EN ROUTE. SHE WILL BE HERE SHORTLY, BUT WE'RE GOING TO GO AHEAD AND GET STARTED. 
          AND I'M GOING TO GO OFF SCRIPT HERE FOR JUST A QUICK SECOND. THIS IS NOT ON THE GAME PLAN FOR TODAY, BUT I JUST WANTED TO SAY TODAY, FEBRUARY IS BLACK HISTORY MONTH, AS EVERYONE PROBABLY KNOWS, RIGHT? AND THIS YEAR IS A LITTLE MORE SPECIAL THAN OTHER YEARS, BECAUSE THIS IS THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF OUR COUNTRY RECOGNIZING THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF AFRICAN AMERICANS TO THIS COUNTRY. AND STARTING IN WITH NEGRO HISTORY WEEK BACK IN FEBRUARY 1926, THAT WENT ON TO HAVE A PUBLIC LAW PASSED IN 1986 THAT FORMALLY RECOGNIZED FEBRUARY AS BLACK HISTORY MONTH. AND SOME FOLKS MAY SAY, WELL, WHAT DOES BLACK HISTORY MONTH HAVE TO DO WITH PUBLIC EDUCATION AND PUBLIC FUNDING? WELL, IN MY OPINION, IT HAS A LOT TO DO WITH IT, BECAUSE BLACK HISTORY IS AMERICAN HISTORY, WHERE OUR CHILDREN, STARTING TODAY FOR THE REST OF THIS MONTH, THEY'LL GET AN OPPORTUNITY TO KNOW HISTORICAL FIGURES SUCH AS HARRIET TUBMAN OR FREDERICK DOUGLASS OR MAYA ANGELOU OR ROSA PARKS OR THE REVEREND DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR., THESE ARE HISTORICAL FIGURES THAT OUR CHILDREN NEED TO KNOW OUR HISTORY AND KNOW HOW IMPORTANT IT IS FOR THEIR HISTORY, THE HISTORY OF THIS COUNTRY. SO ANYWAY, I JUST WANTED TO SAY THAT I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE RECOGNIZE THAT. AND I'M A PROUD MEMBER OF THIS BOARD AT THIS TIME IN OUR COUNTRY'S HISTORY AS WE'RE GOING THROUGH A LOT OF THINGS IN OUR COUNTRY. I JUST THINK NOW IS A GOOD TIME THAT WE ALL REFLECT ON WHAT IT MEANS TO BE AN AMERICAN. AND BLACK HISTORY MONTH IS A GOOD OPPORTUNITY TO DO THAT. SO ANYWAY, I'M GOING TO GET OFF MY SOAPBOX AND TURN THINGS OVER TO DR. LAWSON. 
          YEAH, THANK YOU, MR. DAVIS. 
          AND THANK YOU FOR THOSE TIMELY AND APPROPRIATE REMARKS. 
          [1.03 Board Discussion FY27 Budget]
AS THE BOARD KNOWS, LAST WEDNESDAY, WE BROUGHT TO YOU A SET OF BUDGET RECOMMENDATIONS THAT WERE PREPARED BY OUR PROGRAM LEADERS, WHETHER IT'S COORDINATORS, DIRECTORS, AND SO ON. THOSE REQUESTS HAD BEEN VETTED BY THE LEADERSHIP TEAM. AND WE BROUGHT TO YOU WHAT WE BELIEVE WERE REASONABLE REQUESTS BROKEN DOWN BY PROGRAM. AND THROUGHOUT THAT PRESENTATION LAST WEDNESDAY NIGHT, I THINK WE WERE CLEAR IN TELLING YOU THAT WE ARE AWARE OF WHAT OUR REVENUES ARE IN THE BALLPARK. WE ARE FAIRLY CERTAIN THAT WE CAN EXPECT A 1.1% YEAR-OVER-YEAR INCREASE FROM THE STATE. AND THE STATE CONTRIBUTES AROUND $140 MILLION TO OUR OVERALL BUDGET. 
          SO 1.1% OF THAT'S A LITTLE BIT OVER A MILLION DOLLARS. AND EVEN THAT MILLION DOLLAR INCREASE, JUST FOR INSTANCE, WE KNOW 150,000 OF THAT HAS TO GO TO THE SUSQUEHANNA WORKFORCE. AND NOT TO DISPARAGE THE SUSQUEHANNA WORKFORCE, BUT THAT TYPIFIES WHAT HAPPENS, SCHOOL FUNDING IN THE AGE OF THE BLUEPRINT. THE INCREASES YOU GET TEND TO BE EARMARKED. 
          AND THIS YEAR IS NO DIFFERENT. 
          AND WE'VE GONE THE PAST SEVERAL YEARS COMPLAINING, IF YOU WILL, ABOUT THE LACK OF FUNDING, CONSISTENT FUNDING FROM THE COUNTY. AND LAST YEAR WE RECEIVED $7 MILLION APPROXIMATELY ABOVE WHAT THE COUNTY WAS REQUIRED TO FUND. 
          WE ARE HOPEFUL THAT WE WILL GET ANOTHER INCREASE ABOVE THE LOCAL SHARE MAINTENANCE OF EFFORT RESPONSIBILITY THAT THE COUNTY HAS. 
          BUT WE KNOW THE COUNTY IS LIMITED WITH HOW MUCH THEY CAN FUND. 
          SO WE KNOW WHAT WE'RE GOING TO GET FROM THE STATE. WE'RE IN THE BALLPARK WITH WHAT WE'LL GET FROM THE COUNTY. 
          AND AGAIN, A LOT MORE TO BE SAID ABOUT THAT TODAY. 
          BUT EVEN WITH THOSE INCREASES, WE KNOW WE'RE WELL SHORT OF WHAT WE SHARED WITH YOU LAST WEDNESDAY. SO I'VE ASKED THE LEADERSHIP TEAM TO GO BACK AND MAKE REDUCTIONS BASED ON WHAT YOU SAW LAST WEEK. AND YOU WILL SEE THOSE THROUGHOUT THIS MORNING. AS DR. BUCKLEY, DR. HAMER, MS. SOPA SHARE THE INFORMATION, I WOULD URGE YOU TO INTERRUPT ALONG THE WAY IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS. WE'RE LITERALLY GOING TO GO THROUGH HUNDREDS, IF NOT THOUSANDS OF LINES. AND I THINK YOU'LL FIND THAT THEY HAVE A PRETTY GOOD HANDLE ON WHAT EACH OF THE PROGRAMS ARE ASKING FOR AND WHY. BUT I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE TAKE A STEP BACK AT THIS POINT IN 2026 BECAUSE WE'RE NOW FIVE YEARS SINCE HOUSE BILL 1300 WAS PASSED, WHICH WAS THE BLUEPRINT FOR MARYLAND'S... 
          THERE WE GO. SO AS I MENTIONED 
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BEFORE, THERE ARE CERTAIN POTS OF MONEY THAT ARE VERY MUCH RESTRICTED IN TERMS OF BLUEPRINT IMPLEMENTATION. WE HAVE MLS, WHICH ARE OUR MULTILINGUAL LEARNERS. 
          COMPENSATORY EDUCATION IS FOR STUDENTS FROM POVERTY. 
          SPECIAL EDUCATION SPEAKS FOR ITSELF. 
          I WILL NOTE THAT THE AMOUNT OF SET-ASIDE THROUGH BLUEPRINT FUNDING TO SUPPORT STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES IS PROBABLY ABOUT 70% OF WHAT IT TAKES. SO THE REMAINING 30% IS COMING FROM OUR, WHAT WE CALL FOUNDATION. AND WE'RE SEEING THIS ACROSS THE STATE. 
          A NUMBER OF SYSTEMS HAVE REPORTED THIS. THE STATE HAS REALLY AN UNFUNDED LIABILITY AS IT RELATES TO SUPPORTING STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES IN THE BILLIONS OF DOLLARS ACROSS THE STATE. 
          CONCENTRATIONS OF POVERTY SCHOOLS. THIS IS A SET-ASIDE NUMBER THAT GOES TO 11 OF OUR SCHOOLS IN PARTICULAR. AND AGAIN, IT COMES WITH SIGNIFICANT RESTRICTIONS IN TERMS OF HOW THAT MONEY IS SPENT. 
          COLLEGE AND CAREER READINESS. 
          AND AGAIN, THOSE OF YOU WHO REALLY PAY ATTENTION CLOSELY, THIS IS NOT NEW. BUT AGAIN, I'M TRYING TO SUMMARIZE THIS IN A SUCCINCT WAY THAT GIVES YOU A BROADER UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO DO AND WHAT THOSE LIMITATIONS ARE. 
          AND THERE'S CAREER AND JOB COACHING. I JUST MENTIONED SUSQUEHANNA WORKFORCE NETWORK. IT'S A SIGNIFICANT LINE ITEM THAT BASICALLY FOR EVERY DOLLAR WE PUSH TOWARDS SUSQUEHANNA WORKFORCE. 
          HARFORD COUNTY PUSHES $3. SO IF THEY'VE RECEIVED A $4 MILLION INCREASE, AND THAT WAS THE NUMBER A COUPLE YEARS AGO, A MILLION CAME FROM CECIL AND THREE MILLION CAME FROM HARFORD. THESE NUMBERS ARE ROUGH BUT THEY'RE CLOSE. AND IT JUST GOES TO SHOW THAT WHAT LOOKS LIKE AN INCREASE IS EARMARKED. 
          SO IS IT GOING TO HELP WHETHER IT'S CLASS SIZES OR HAVING AN EXTRA ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL SOMEWHERE? IT DOES NOT. 
          AND THEN CERTAINLY PRE-K. 
          THERE'S BEEN A SIGNIFICANT INCREASE THIS YEAR IN PRE-K FUNDING. AND THAT'S A GOOD THING BECAUSE WHATEVER DIFFERENCE THERE WAS AS IT RELATES TO NOT HAVING ENOUGH MONEY TO SUPPORT OUR FOUR-YEAR-OLDS, AGAIN, HAS COME BACK TO THE FOUNDATION. THE FOUNDATION COST, THE FOUNDATION NUMBER PER PUPIL HAS REALLY BEEN THE CATCH-ALL FOR EVERYTHING OTHER THAN THESE PROTECTIVE POTS OF MONEY. AND YOU'VE HEARD ME SAY BEFORE, THERE SIMPLY ISN'T ENOUGH IN THE FOUNDATION. SO THIS, TALK ABOUT WEDI, AND MS. OLSON WILL SEND YOU THIS PRESENTATION. THIS IS A PIECE OUT OF THE ACTUAL STATUTE, AND THERE'S A POINT TO BE MADE HERE. THIS SHOWS BY FISCAL YEAR HOW MUCH IS BEING FUNDED FOR THE BLUEPRINT ALL THE WAY GOING BACK TO 24. AND YOU CAN SEE RIGHT NOW WE'RE IN FY26, AND THAT'S $92.26 PER CHILD THAT EVERY CHILD GETS. 
          AND THEN GOING INTO NEXT YEAR, WE KNOW THAT NUMBER IS INCREASING BY 500. 
          THE PROBLEM WITH THAT INCREASE IS THAT OUR ENROLLMENT IS DOWN. 
          SO YES, YOU'RE GETTING MORE PER STUDENT, BUT THERE ARE FEWER STUDENTS. 
          SO IT'S SIMPLY WHO'S DOESN'T ADD UP TO MUCH OF AN INCREASE. 
          BUT REALLY WHERE I WANT TO DIRECT YOUR ATTENTION IS WHAT HAPPENS IN THE OUT YEARS. AND SO THE FOUNDATION, YOU CAN SEE THE NUMBER IS GOING TO GO UP ALL THE WAY OUT TO FISCAL YEAR 32. THIS COLLABORATIVE PLANNING TIME IS A LOT OF A HULLABALOO LAST YEAR ABOUT GETTING TO THE 60-40. 
          THIS IS PER CHILD, A SET ASIDE. 
          AND THAT NUMBER GOES UP ALL THE WAY TO FISCAL YEAR 32 WHERE IT'S $1,500 PER CHILD TO ALLOW TEACHERS TO TEACH LESS AND PLAN MORE. 
          THAT'S REALLY THE SHORT OF IT. 
          A COUPLE OTHER THINGS. YOU CAN SEE WHAT HAPPENS TO SPECIAL EDUCATION. IT'S 92% OF THE FOUNDATION. 
          THEN IT GOES TO 99. WE'RE AT 103. NEXT YEAR IT GOES TO 112. 
          AND IT KEEPS GOING UP UNTIL FISCAL YEAR 31, AND IT STARTS TO TAIL DOWN. 
          TRANSITIONAL SUPPLEMENTAL INSTRUCTION. YOU CAN SEE THIS IS A PER PUPIL GIVE THAT ENDS THIS COMING YEAR. THE THINKING WHEN THIS LEGISLATION WAS WRITTEN WAS THAT WE WOULD HAVE MADE SUCH PROGRESS THROUGH ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT THAT THAT TSI MONEY WOULD NO LONGER BE NEEDED. 
          OKAY, SO CLEARLY WE'RE NOT SEEING THAT. AND SO ANY TIME YOU HEAR OF I'M BEING PAID TO GO IN AND TUTOR KIDS DURING THE SCHOOL DAY, MOST TIMES THAT IS WHAT WE CALL TSI MONEY. 
          PRE-K. THESE ARE DOLLAR VALUES PER CHILD GOING OUT. 
          WHAT I'M GETTING AT HERE IS THE STATUTORY INCREASES THAT ARE BEING REALIZED THROUGH THE BLUEPRINT ARE PREDETERMINED. 
          THEY ARE NOT DISCRETIONARY. WE ARE NOT BUYING EXTRA UNIFORMS FOR THE FOOTBALL TEAM. WE ARE NOT PUTTING AN EXTRA ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL AT A RISING SUN MIDDLE SCHOOL. 
          THAT'S NOT IN THIS. SO THAT THE MONEY THAT WE ARE BEING GIVEN OVER AND ABOVE IS EARMARKED. 
          THIS IS...OH, IF YOU HAVE A 
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QUESTION, PLEASE. 
          DR. LODGE, CAN YOU GO BACK TO THE LAST SLIDE? I HAD JUST A QUICK QUESTION FOR CLARIFICATION. 
          IS THERE SOMETHING GOING ON BETWEEN FISCAL YEAR 27 AND 28 THAT'S SO DIFFERENT THAN THE OTHER YEARS? BECAUSE I NOTICED THAT'S THE ONE WITH THE MORE OF A 20% INCREASE OTHER THAN THE OTHER YEARS, IF YOU LOOK AT THAT. 
          I WOULD SAY NO. YOU KNOW, THIS IS HOUSE BILL 1300, WHICH WAS WRITTEN IN 2020. AND THERE WERE REALLY A HANDFUL OF PEOPLE THAT CRAFTED THE ENTIRE LEGISLATION, WHICH IS HUNDREDS OF PAGES LONG. THERE ARE A LOT OF ASSUMPTIONS THAT ARE MADE THROUGHOUT. AND SO IF THERE'S AN ANSWER TO THAT QUESTION, I CERTAINLY WOULDN'T BE THE PERSON TO SAY THAT THERE WAS SOMETHING MAGICAL BETWEEN FISCAL YEAR 27 AND 28 THAT WOULD WARRANT OR NOT WARRANT INCREASES. BECAUSE IF YOU NOTICE, SPECIAL EDUCATION, AS WE GET CLOSER TO 2032, STARTS TO PEEL BACK DOWN, RIGHT? WHICH DOESN'T MAKE MUCH SENSE. SO MY HUNCH IS THE ANSWER TO MY SPECIAL ED OBSERVATION IS SIMILAR TO YOUR OBSERVATION. 
          THANK YOU. 
          SO YOU'RE SEEING ACROSS THE STATE A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT APPROACHES TO HOW ARE WE GOING TO DEAL WITH THIS. 
          WHAT I DID HERE WAS I GRABBED AN EXAMPLE OF WHAT BALTIMORE COUNTY IS DOING. BALTIMORE COUNTY IS GOING THROUGH AND THEY'RE APPLYING A TIERED STAFFING MODEL TO ALL SCHOOLS IN THE SCHOOL SYSTEM. SO THAT YOU CAN SEE THE COLUMNS UP TOP ARE FARMS RATES, FREE AND REDUCED MEALS, ARE FARMS RATES FOR THEIR DIFFERENT SCHOOLS. 
          AND THAT GOING DOWN VERTICALLY, THEY ARE CLASS SIZES THAT THEY'RE SHOOTING FOR. SO YOU CAN SEE IF YOU LOOK AT GRADES FOUR AND FIVE, THAT'S WHERE IT'S MOST STRIKING. 
          THEY'RE GOING TO A PLACE LIKE RISING SUN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, WHERE THERE SIMPLY ISN'T A VERY LARGE FARMS RATE, AND COMPARING IT TO GILPIN MANOR. 
          AND SO WHEN WE ASKED DR. 
          JOHNSON, DR. FOY TO SIT DOWN AND HELP PRINCIPALS ACTUALLY STAFF THE SCHOOLS, THEY ARE SAYING, OKAY, WE ASSUME WE'RE GOING TO HAVE 32 STUDENTS IN EVERY CLASSROOM WHERE FARMS RATE IS BELOW 15%. SO THAT'S AN ASSUMPTION AND AN OPERATING PRACTICE THAT THEY WORK FROM RIGHT FROM THE START. AND SO WE WILL BE TAKING A STAB AT A MODEL LIKE THIS, AND I'M TELLING YOU NOW WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN IS THAT YOUR NON-CONCENTRATION OF POVERTY SCHOOLS, IF YOU WILL, YOUR MORE AFFLUENT SCHOOLS WILL, BY INTENT, SEE LARGER CLASS SIZES. IT IS THE ONLY WAY TO REALLY GO AT THIS. IN OTHER WORDS, YOUR HANDS GET TIED TO WHERE YOU CAN MAKE REDUCTIONS. AND WHEN YOU TAKE WHAT WE SHARED WITH YOU LAST WEDNESDAY AND YOU LOOK AT THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN WHAT WE KNOW WE'RE GOING TO GET AND WHAT WE THINK WE NEED, THE NUMBER IS HUGE. 
          SO THEN YOU HAVE TO RECONCILE. HOW ARE YOU GOING TO GET THERE? AND WHAT I'M SAYING TO YOU IS A LOT OF THE WAY OF HOW TO GET THERE ARE
OFF THE TABLE. YOU'RE REALLY LEFT WITH A HANDFUL OF WAYS TO MAKE REDUCTIONS AND MORE ABOUT THAT IN A MINUTE. 
          THIS IS...I DON'T WANT YOU TO THINK THAT THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT WE ARE GOING TO DO. THIS IS AN EXAMPLE OF WHAT BALTIMORE COUNTY IS DOING AND I ALSO KNOW ANNA RUNDLE IS BEING PRETTY AGGRESSIVE WITH A MODEL SIMILAR TO THIS. 
          SO YOU WILL SEE ON THE INSIDE POCKET OF YOUR BINDER, I BELIEVE, A SHEET THAT LOOKS LIKE THIS. IT'S SIMPLY...YEP, YOU GOT IT. 
          AND THIS IS OUR FIRST EFFORT TO REDUCE $11 MILLION OFF WHAT WE SHOWED YOU LAST WEDNESDAY NIGHT. AND KEEP IN THE BACK OF YOUR MIND, THERE'S A PRESUPPOSITION IN THIS APPROACH THAT WE'RE GOING TO TRY TO TAKE WHAT IS AN RECEIVE $10 MILLION ABOVE WHAT WE GOT LAST YEAR FROM THE COUNTY. AND WE DON'T KNOW THAT THAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN FOR SURE. SO THAT IF THE COUNTY WERE TO COME IN AND SAY, OKAY, WE'RE GIVING YOU $7 MILLION, THERE WILL BE ANOTHER $3 MILLION ON TOP OF THIS. AND WE WOULD CERTAINLY IDENTIFY THOSE CUTS WHEN THE TIME COMES. 
          BUT YOU CAN SEE, AND WHAT I DID ON THIS SLIDE IS I ATTEMPTED TO KIND OF SYNTHESIZE WHERE YOU SEE THOSE REDUCTIONS FROM. YOU SEE TECHNOLOGY, TRANSPORTATION, GROUNDS AND MAINTENANCE, MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOL, AND EARLY CHILDHOOD. 
          IN YOUR BINDER, YOU WILL ACTUALLY SEE WHAT EXACTLY THOSE REDUCTIONS ARE. AND THEN THE BIG ONE IS $7.5 MILLION IN POSITIONS. YOU KNOW, WE HAVE LONG TOLD YOU THAT POSITIONS FOR YOU, AND THAT'S WHERE SO ALL POSITIONS MAKE UP ANYWHERE, YOU KNOW, 80 TO GIVE OR TAKE A PERCENTAGE OF OUR BUDGET, OUR PEOPLE. AND THAT CERTAINLY HOLDS OUT HERE. 
          AND SO WHAT WE DID, WE ARE TRYING TO MAKE SURE THAT THERE IS SOME LEVEL OF FAIRNESS, EQUITY, IF YOU WILL, IN TERMS OF HOW WE'RE MAKING OUR POSITION REDUCTIONS. 
          WE KNOW THAT 63% OF OUR WORKFORCE BELONGS TO CCC, CECIL COUNTY CLASSROOM TEACHERS ASSOCIATION. 30% ARE OUR SUPPORT PEOPLE. AND THEN 7% ARE WHAT WE CALL OUR ADMINISTRATORS, ALTHOUGH THEY'RE REPRESENTED IN THREE DIFFERENT WORK GROUPS THERE. 
          YOU OKAY? WE GOOD? BECAUSE I 
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THINK WHAT I'M GOING TO SAY NEXT IS ONLY IMPORTANT. 
          NOT THAT WHAT I SAID WASN'T.
IN THE 63% OF OUR WORKFORCE BEING FROM CCC, THERE ARE A NUMBER OF THOSE POSITIONS THAT ARE HANDS-OFF. ANYBODY THAT'S PROVIDING A LEGALLY REQUIRED SERVICE TO A STUDENT, WHETHER IT'S A RELATED SERVICE PROVIDER, KEEP IN MIND OUR PSYCHOLOGIST ARE IN THERE, OUR OCCUPATIONAL THERAPIST IN THERE, OUR SPEECH THERAPIST ARE IN THERE. 
          YOU ARE NOT REDUCING THOSE POSITIONS. THOSE STUDENTS WILL GENERATE, THE STUDENTS THAT THEY SERVE GENERATE A CERTAIN LEVEL OF NEED THAT COMES WITH A PRICE TAG AND THAT TO SAY WE'RE GOING TO REDUCE 63% OF OUR DIFFERENCE IN COST FROM CCC IS A LITTLE BIT MORE IDEALISTIC. 
          SO HOW MUCH WE REDUCE FROM THAT BARGAINING GROUP? THE SCHOOL SYSTEM IS LIMITED.
THAT'S REALLY THE POINT I'M
TRYING TO MAKE HERE. AND SO IF YOU WERE TO SAY 63% OF THE CUTS WE NEED TO MAKE GIVEN THE CUTS I JUST SHOWED YOU, IT WOULD AMOUNT TO $4.7 MILLION FROM THE CCC GROUP, $2.25 FROM THE SUPPORT, AND $525,000 FROM THE ADMINISTRATIVE WORK GROUPS. 
          THAT IS NOT TO SAY THAT'S WHERE WE'RE GOING TO LAND BUT IT'S DEFINITELY A REFERENCE POINT. WE'RE TRYING TO BE COMPARABLE AND FAIR TO THE WORKLOADS TO ALL OF OUR DIFFERENT PEOPLE. 
          BUT AGAIN, WHAT I'M TELLING YOU IS THAT THESE TARGETED REVENUE SOURCES REALLY DO VERY LITTLE TO PROTECT THIS GROUP AND THIS GROUP. SESPA AND THE ADMINISTRATIVE GROUPS REALLY GOING TO GO THROUGH NEARLY AS MUCH AS THEY ARE IN THE CCC GROUP. OKAY, SO WE'RE RESPONSIBLE TO DO CERTAIN THINGS WITH CERTAIN REVENUE SOURCES. 
          SO THAT'S OUR STARTING POINT WITH WHERE WE WOULD MAKE POSITION REDUCTIONS. MY HUNCH IS IT WILL NOT LOOK LIKE THAT WHEN ALL IS SAID AND DONE. SO I WOULD ASK YOU TO CONSIDER THIS. AND THIS WILL COME UP AGAIN AND AGAIN IN THE NEXT FEW HOURS. WHAT IS IT THAT WE VALUE AS A SCHOOL SYSTEM? AND I WOULD OFFER THESE AS POSSIBILITIES. HOW MUCH DO WE VALUE OUR CLASS SIZES? AND DO WE VALUE THAT VALUE THE SAME IN EVERY SCHOOL? IS A CLASS SIZE OF 24 AT ELKTON MIDDLE THE SAME AS A CLASS SIZE OF 24 AT PERRYVILLE MIDDLE. AT SOME POINT, IT'S GOING TO HAVE TO BE NON-RHETORICAL, IF YOU WILL. WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO SAY, YEAH, WE THINK THERE NEEDS TO BE MORE HERE AS OPPOSED TO THERE. DO WE VALUE THE ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT THAT WE PROVIDE TO OUR SCHOOLS THE EXACT SAME IN EVERY SCHOOL? IF THERE'S A SCHOOL WITH 500 STUDENTS, WILL EVERY ONE OF THOSE SCHOOLS GET TWO ASSISTANT PRINCIPALS? OR WILL ONE SCHOOL GET TWO, AND MAYBE ONE SCHOOL GETS ONE? AND WHEN I SAY ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT IN ALL SCHOOLS, I ALSO EXTEND THAT TO HERE BECAUSE WHAT THE ADMINISTRATIVE WORK DONE HERE IS DESIGNED TO SUPPORT SCHOOLS. WILL WE BE ABLE... AND KEEPING IN MIND THAT THAT COMES FROM THE FOUNDATION COST. 
          WILL WE BE ABLE TO CONTINUE TO OFFER CERTAIN CURRICULUM INSTRUCTION SERVICES TO OUR SCHOOLS FROM BOOTH STREET KNOWING THAT IT'S COMING OUT OF THE FOUNDATION LINE? EVERYTHING ELSE THAT WE DO AS A SCHOOL SYSTEM COMES OUT OF THE FOUNDATION LINE. 
          OOPS. OH, GOODNESS GRACIOUS. 
          KATHY, COULD YOU BRING UP THAT RIGHT THERE? THERE. THANK YOU. IF YOU DID THAT OR IF I DID THAT, I'M NOT SURE. 
          THERE'S A WHOLE LOT OF WORK BEING DONE IN THAT LINE RIGHT THERE. 
          YOUR FOOTBALL PROGRAM,
THERE. 
          YOUR EXTRACURRICULARS, THERE. 
          YOUR FIELD TRIPS, THERE. 
          EVERYTHING, THERE. 
          OUR ADMINISTRATORS, THERE. 
          NOW, THERE ARE A HANDFUL OF EXCEPTIONS. 
          IF YOU HAVE AN ADMINISTRATOR COMING OUT OF AND ONLY SUPPORTING THESE STUDENTS, WELL, THEN MAYBE WE CAN MAKE THE CASE THAT WE'RE PULLING SOME OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT OUT OF THOSE LINES. 
          BUT OTHER THAN THAT, THE VAST MAJORITY OF THE SERVICES WE GIVE TO OUR SCHOOLS FROM THIS BUILDING ARE COMING OUT OF THE FOUNDATION. 
          IT'S THE SAME DOLLAR THAT THE BASKETBALL TEAM OR THE CHEERLEADERS ARE COMPETING FOR. 
          AND SO WHEN I SAY, WHAT IS IT THAT WE VALUE, WE REALLY ARE GOING TO HAVE TO COME TO TERMS WITH THAT. 
          I MENTIONED THE EXTRACURRICULAR EXPERIENCES. 
          HERE'S SOMETHING I WOULD ASK YOU TO PONDER, AND I'VE SAID THIS TO THE LEADERSHIP TEAM. 
          AS A PARENT, IF YOU HAD OPTION 
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A, MY CHILD'S GOING TO GO TO A HIGH SCHOOL. 
          AND IN THAT HIGH SCHOOL, EVERY SINGLE CLASS HAS 18 STUDENTS. 
          BUT THAT HIGH SCHOOL DOES NOT OFFER ANY OF THE OTHER FRILLS, WHETHER IT'S A SWIM TEAM, A WRESTLING TEAM, STUDENT COUNCIL, HONOR SOCIETY, DRAMA, TAKE YOUR PICK. 
          OR I'D RATHER MY CHILD TO GO TO A HIGH SCHOOL WHERE I KNOW THERE'S GOING TO BE 32 KIDS IN EVERY CLASS, BUT THEY'RE GOING TO GET THAT OTHERWISE ROUNDED EXPERIENCE. 
          I KNOW AS A STUDENT, I COULDN'T TELL YOU HOW MANY KIDS WERE IN MY ALGEBRA CLASS. 
          I CAN TELL YOU I DIDN'T DO VERY WELL. 
          BUT WHO KNOWS? I LOOK BACK, AND BASEBALL, FOOTBALL, SWIMMING, THEY WERE ALL CENTRAL TO WHAT I DID. 
          BUT THAT'S ONE PERSON. 
          AND I DO THINK IN THE BACK OF YOUR MIND, AS WE GO THROUGH THIS LINE BY LINE, YOU'RE GOING TO FIND YOURSELF WRESTLING WITH, OKAY, DO WE THINK WE NEED THIS PIECE OF SOFTWARE FROM TECHNOLOGY THAT'S GOING TO COST US $55,000, OR ARE WE GOING TO BE BETTER SERVED BY FINDING A STAFF PERSON TO PUT AT A SCHOOL? AND, AGAIN, AT SOME POINT THOSE QUESTIONS ARE GOING TO HAVE TO BE ANSWERED AND THOSE DECISIONS WILL BE MADE. 
          I WILL TELL YOU, AND I'M PRETTY SURE I SPEAK FOR THE LEADERSHIP TEAM, WHEN WE ARE INTERESTED IN CONTINUING TO PROVIDE A COMPREHENSIVE EXPERIENCE FOR ALL OF OUR KIDS, AND THERE THE TIMES WHERE THAT'S DONE IN A LARGER CLASS SIZE, AND I WILL TELL YOU THAT THIS IS BY DESIGN. 
          THIS IS NOT AN UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCE. 
          IF YOU TAKE ANY TIME AND YOU LISTEN TO THE AIB, THE ACCOUNTABILITY IMPLEMENTATION BOARD, YOU WILL HEAR THEM SAY AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN, THE SUPPORTS NEED TO GO TO THE KIDS THAT NEED THEM MOST. 
          FOR HEAVEN'S SAKES, LOOK AT THAT FUNDING LINE ON THE MICRO TABLE I JUST SHOWED YOU. 
          A CHILD THAT'S ML GETS ALMOST AS MUCH AS A FOUNDATION CHILD. 
          SO IF A CHILD IS ML AND THEY'RE A STUDENT WITH DISABILITY AND THEY'RE FROM POVERTY, THEY GET ROUGHLY FOUR TIMES AS MUCH AS A FOUNDATION IN TERMS OF A FUNDING MECHANISM. 
          SO AM I BEING CLEAR ON THIS? OKAY, GOOD. 
          I CAN'T SEE DETAIL THAT FAR PROFESSIONAL CULTURE. 
          WHAT DO I MEAN WHEN I SAY THAT? I THINK THERE'S SOMETHING SPECIAL ABOUT OUR SCHOOL SYSTEM, AND I THINK YOU NEED TO LOOK NO FURTHER THAN RISING SUN MIDDLE SCHOOL. 
          TWO YEARS AGO WHEN I WENT OUT AND I SHARED WITH THE FACULTIES THAT GIVEN THE 75-25 FUNDING REQUIREMENT, THERE COULD BE A SCENARIO WE WOULD TAKE THE PRICIER TEACHERS AND PUT THEM TO THE NEEDIER BUILDINGS. 
          WELL, IT WASN'T LONG AFTER THAT, MR. ZIMMERMAN SHARED WITH ME, WE HAD TWO TEACHERS FROM RISING SUN MIDDLE SCHOOL REACH OUT AND SAY, I NO LONGER WANT TO BE PART OF THE NATIONAL BOARD CERTIFICATION PROCESS, BECAUSE THEY FELT THAT IF THEY BECAME SO EXPENSIVE, THEY WOULD BE LOW-HANGING FRUIT TO BE REASSIGNED. 
          NOW, WE CAN QUESTION WHETHER OR NOT HOW PURE OF A DECISION THAT IS. 
          WE CAN HAVE THAT DEBATE, BUT WHAT WE'VE HELD SPECIAL IS THAT WE KNOW WE HAVE HUNDREDS AND HUNDREDS OF TEACHERS WHO TEACH AT THEIR SCHOOLS BECAUSE THEY ARE, QUOTE-UNQUOTE, MARRIED TO THAT SCHOOL. 
          THEY LOVE THAT SCHOOL. 
          IT'S A PIECE OF THEIR FABRIC, AND IT'S A PIECE OF THE COMMUNITY. 
          AND I BELIEVE WE HAVE TO HONOR THAT. 
          I DO. I THINK THAT'S SPECIAL ABOUT US, AND THAT'S WHY WE ARE ALWAYS ONE OF THE BEST IN THE STATE IN TERMS OF RETENTION, KEEPING OUR PEOPLE, BECAUSE WE RESPECT THAT. 
          YOU CAN BE AN EXCELLENT TEACHER AND LIVE AND DIE BY ELKTON HIGH SCHOOL. 
          THAT IS YOUR MISSION IN LIFE, ELKTON HIGH SCHOOL, AND WE HAVE THEM OVER THERE IF YOU KNOW THOSE PEOPLE. 
          SO I JUST THINK THAT, AGAIN, SOME OF MY BIAS IS COMING OUT. 
          IT'S IMPOSSIBLE TO TALK ABOUT THIS FOR NOW 20 MINUTES WITHOUT MY BIAS COMING OUT. 
          SO I THINK THAT'S IT. 
          I'M JUST TRYING TO SET THE BACKDROP OF WHERE I ANTICIPATE A LOT OF YOUR QUESTIONS COMING FROM. 
          AGAIN, WE WILL START TO GO THROUGH LINE BY LINE. 
          IT'S TEDIOUS. 
          IF WE'RE GOING TOO FAST, PLEASE SAY SO. 
          I'VE ASKED THE THREE TO MY LEFT HERE TO, AT THE END OF EACH PAGE, PAUSE, MAKE SURE YOU'RE WITH US, WHETHER YOU'RE GOING. 
          SO AS A THINKING, WE'RE GOING TO TRACK THAT. 
          RIGHT, SO YOU'RE GOING TO FIND YOURSELF, AM I TRACKING HERE OR AM I TRACKING UP THERE? THESE THREE WILL BE TRACKING UP THERE WITH THE POINTER. 
          SO WHEN THEY SAY, IF YOU LOOK AT LINE 40500, IT'S SHOWING A $32,000 INCREASE, THEY WILL BE READING FROM UP HERE AS OPPOSED TO YOU. 
          POURING THROUGH YOUR THREE-RING BINDER, TRYING TO KEEP UP THERE. 
          IS THERE ANYTHING ELSE LOGISTICALLY OR 50,000 FOOT YOU WANT TO MENTION OR ASK BEFORE WE GET ROLLING ON THIS? OKAY. 
          WITH THAT. 
          GOOD MORNING. 
          BEFORE WE ACTUALLY START THE LINE-BY-LINE, WE JUST HAVE A LITTLE INTRO AND SOME EXPLANATIONS FOR WHAT YOU'RE GOING TO SEE TODAY. 
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SO IN THE TABLE OF CONTENTS, IT HAS HOW THE ENTIRE REPORT IS SET UP. 
          KEEP IN MIND THAT WHAT YOU HAVE IN FRONT OF YOU IS ONLY THE OPERATING BUDGET. 
          WE DID NOT INCLUDE THE CAPITAL BUDGET. 
          IT KIND OF IS WHAT IT IS, AND WE DID NOT INCLUDE THE DEBT SERVICE BUDGET. 
          SO WE'RE ONLY LOOKING AT OPERATING BUDGET. 
          AND WHERE WE'RE REALLY SPENDING OUR TIME TODAY IS THIS EXPENSE BUDGET SUMMARY, THE REQUEST DETAIL, SO WE'RE GOING TO START WITH THE BOARD. 
          IT IS WHAT THE REVENUE IS, AND SO WHAT OUR JOB IS IS TO IDENTIFY AN EXPENSE BUDGET THAT BALANCES WITH THE REVENUE BUDGET. 
          AND SO WHAT WE'LL BE LOOKING AT ARE THE REQUESTS THAT WERE PRESENTED TO YOU AT OUR LAST BOARD MEETING, WITH THE REDUCTIONS THAT OUR DEPARTMENT LEADERS HAVE WORKED TO MAKE TO TRY TO NARROW THE GAP BETWEEN THE REVENUE AND EXPENSE. 
          SO ALTHOUGH YOU'RE NOT GOING TO ACTUALLY SEE ACCOUNT NUMBERS, WE TAKE THE ACCOUNT NUMBERS, THE STRING, OUT OF THE REPORT JUST TO KIND OF TAKE AWAY SOME OF THE BUSYNESS AND MAKE IT EASIER TO FOCUS. 
          BUT THERE ARE PARTS OF IT THAT ARE THE HEADERS, SO I JUST WANT TO GO OVER A LITTLE BIT ABOUT WHAT OUR ACCOUNT STRUCTURE LOOKS LIKE. 
          SO YOU CAN SEE THE MULTIPLE SEGMENTS THAT GO INTO AN ACCOUNT. 
          SOME OF THESE ARE RELATED TO STATE REPORTING, AND SOME OF THEM ARE RELATED TO OUR REPORTING. 
          BUT WHAT'S IMPORTANT TO KNOW IS THAT THERE IS ACTUALLY A FINANCIAL REPORTING MANUAL. 
          SO ANY ACCOUNT THAT WE CREATE HAS TO FOLLOW THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE REPORTING MANUAL BECAUSE OUR ACCOUNTS HAVE TO ALIGN WITH THE MSDE'S ACCOUNTS. 
          SO WE HAVE A CROSSWALK BETWEEN THE TWO. 
          WHILE OUR ACCOUNT STRUCTURE IS NOT IDENTICAL TO THEIRS AND OUR NUMBERING SYSTEM IS NOT IDENTICAL, WE HAVE TO HAVE A WAY TO MATCH OUR NUMBERS TO THEIR EXPECTATIONS. 
          AND SO WHAT YOU'LL SEE TODAY, ANYTHING THAT THE FIRST TWO DIGITS OF ANY ACCOUNT NUMBER TELL US WHAT FUND WE'RE TALKING ABOUT. 
          SO WHENEVER YOU SEE A FUND 10, YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT EVERYTHING UNRESTRICTED BUDGET, AND THAT'S WHAT WE'RE GOING TO BE FOCUSING ON TODAY IS THE UNRESTRICTED BUDGET. 
          ANYTHING THAT STARTS WITH A 20 IS OUR RESTRICTED BUDGET. 
          THOSE ARE ALL OF OUR GRANTS. 
          THERE ARE STATE GRANTS, FEDERAL GRANTS. 
          AND SO WHEN YOU PUT THOSE TWO FUNDS TOGETHER, THE UNRESTRICTED BUDGET, AND THE RESTRICTED BUDGET,
YOU GET THE OPERATING BUDGET. 
          AND SO THAT'S WHAT YOU HAVE IN FRONT OF YOU, BUT WE'RE REALLY GOING TO BE FOCUSING ON THIS UNRESTRICTED TODAY BECAUSE, AGAIN, THE GRANTS ARE WHAT THEY ARE. 
          RIGHT NOW, WE'RE TAKING THE RESTRICTED BUDGET THAT WE HAVE, AND WE'RE ROLLING THAT INTO FY27. 
          SO WE'RE REALLY FOCUSING HERE ON FUND 10. 
          ALSO, WHEN WE DO – WHEN YOU FINALLY DO APPROVE BUDGETS, YOU ALSO APPROVE THE CAPITAL BUDGET AND THE DEBT SERVICE BUDGET. 
          SO THOSE ALSO HAVE DIFFERENT FUND NUMBERS. 
          THEY'RE ALL MANAGED SEPARATELY IN OUR SOFTWARE. 
          YOU HEAR US SPEAK A LOT ABOUT STATE CATEGORY. 
          SO THE SECOND TWO DIGITS HERE ARE THOSE 15 STATE CATEGORIES THAT YOU SEE US REFERRING TO AND WE GAVE AN EXPLANATION OF IN OUR LAST MEETING. 
          PROGRAM IS ALSO SOMETHING ELSE, WHETHER IT'S SYSTEM-WIDE, WHETHER IT'S SPECIAL ED. 
          AGAIN, RELATES BACK TO OUR STATE REPORTING. 
          THIS MIDDLE NUMBER HERE RELATES TO DEPARTMENT FOR US, SO IT WILL TAKE US BACK TO WHETHER IT'S SPECIAL ED, WHETHER IT'S STUDENT SERVICES. 
          SO YOU'LL HEAR US TALKING ABOUT DEPARTMENTS A LOT. 
          LOCATIONS BECOME REALLY IMPORTANT WITH BLUEPRINT BECAUSE WE HAVE TO TRACK EVERYTHING BACK TO LOCATION, THE REVENUE AND THE EXPENSE. 
          AND THE OBJECT REALLY TELLS US WHAT ARE WE BUYING, AND I'M GOING TO POINT OUT THAT IN OUR REPORT TODAY. 
          IS IT AN FTE SALARY? IS IT A CONTRACTED SERVICE? IS IT A SUPPLY? SO THIS OBJECT HERE REALLY TELLS US WHAT IT IS. 
          AND THEN THIS LAST PART, THE PROJECT, TELLS US WHERE THE FUNDING IS COMING FROM. 
          AND IT USED TO BE BEFORE BLUEPRINT THAT WE ONLY HAD A PROJECT WITH THE RESTRICTED BUDGET BECAUSE IT WOULD RELATE RIGHT BACK TO THE GRANT, WHICH GRANT FUNDING IS IT. 
          NOW ALL OF OUR ACCOUNTS, IF THEY COME OUT OF BLUEPRINT FUNDING, WE HAVE TO TO LIST THE BLUEPRINT SOURCE SO WE KNOW IF WE'RE FUNDING A TEACHER, ARE WE FUNDING THIS TEACHER OUT OF PRE-K, ARE WE FUNDING THEM OUT OF FOUNDATION? SO THAT'S REALLY IMPACTED AND INCREASED THE NUMBER OF ACCOUNTS THAT WE HAVE. 
          QUESTIONS THERE? SO THIS IS SOMETHING THAT'S A LITTLE WORDY ON THE SCREEN, BUT WE WANTED IT HERE IN CASE YOU'RE GOING BACK AND COMPARING, AND I KNOW MR. FERDINANDO, YOU ASKED A QUESTION YESTERDAY, AND WE TALKED ABOUT COMPARING PAST TO PRESENT. 
          SO WE HAVE SOMETHING IN THE BACKGROUND OF OUR ACCOUNTING SOFTWARE THAT'S CALLED A ROLL-UP CODE, AND WHAT A ROLL-UP CODE DOES IS IT HELPS US GROUP ACCOUNTS TOGETHER INTO WAYS THAT MAKE SENSE FOR PEOPLE TO MANAGE THEM. 
          SO WHENEVER WE REPORT TO THE STATE, WE'RE REPORTING BY STATE CATEGORY, BUT IF YOU REMEMBER THOSE STATE CATEGORIES, ADMINISTRATION, MID-LEVEL ADMINISTRATION, RIGHT? SOMETIMES THEY DON'T MEAN A
WHOLE LOT TO SOMEONE, AND IT'S NOT REALLY CLEAR WHAT THOSE THINGS ARE. 
          AND SO WE'VE TAKEN ACCOUNTS AND WE'VE GROUPED THEM INTO, MOST OF THE TIMES THEY GROUP INTO DEPARTMENTS BECAUSE IT MAKES MORE SENSE TO YOU TO HEAR BOARD EXPENSES, SUPERINTENDENT EXPENSES, SECONDARY MATH, EARLY CHILDHOOD. 
          AND SO WHAT WE DO IS WE PUT THE ACCOUNTS IN A GROUPING STRUCTURE SO THAT WE HAVE A DEPARTMENT LEADER OR SOMEONE WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR BUDGETING, APPROVING EXPENSES, ALL FOR THE ACCOUNTS THAT BELONG TO THEM. 
          SO SOMETIMES WE SEE SOME GLITCHES WHERE WE'RE LIKE, YOU KNOW, THIS ACCOUNT WOULD BE BETTER SERVED IN THIS ROLL-UP CODE. 
          AND SO WHAT WE DID THIS YEAR IN THE MIDDLE OF THE YEAR WAS A LITTLE BIT 
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OF REALIGNING, AND I'LL GIVE YOU SOME EXAMPLES ON THE NEXT PAGE TO EXPLAIN WHY WE DID IT. 
          BUT WHAT HAPPENS IS WHEN WE DO THIS ALIGNING IN OUR SOFTWARE, IT GOES BACK AND CHANGES EVERYTHING RETROACTIVELY. 
          SO IT DOESN'T SAY, OKAY, IN THE PAST THIS ACCOUNT THAT USED TO BE A SPECIAL EDUCATION ACCOUNT AND BECAME A TRANSPORTATION ACCOUNT, IT MOVES IT HISTORICALLY AS WELL. 
          SO IF YOU WERE TO GO BACK AND COMPARE OUR REPORTS BY ROLL-UP CODE, YOU WOULD SEE DIFFERENT NUMBERS. 
          BUT IF YOU GO BACK AND COMPARE OUR REPORTS BY STATE CATEGORY, YOU WILL SEE THE SAME NUMBERS BECAUSE WE HAVE NOT CHANGED STATE CATEGORIES, WE HAVE NOT CHANGED ACCOUNT NUMBERS, WE'VE JUST CHANGED OUR LITTLE MECHANISM IN THE BACKGROUND THAT GROUPS THEM TOGETHER THAT SAYS, MANDY IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THESE ACCOUNTS, JESSE IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THESE ACCOUNTS. 
          AND I'M GOING TO GIVE A COUPLE EXAMPLES ON THE NEXT PAGE BECAUSE I KNOW IT SOUNDS CONFUSING. 
          THE OBJECT WOULD BE THE SAME TOO, RIGHT? YEP, NOTHING ABOUT THE ACCOUNT CHANGED AT ALL. 
          WHO'S RESPONSIBLE FOR IT SO, FOR EXAMPLE, SPECIAL EDUCATION TRANSPORTATION, IT USED TO BE A NUMBER THAT DR. HELM GAVE TO DR. MILLER AND THEN SHE BUDGETED FOR IT IN HER BUDGET. 
          THE PROBLEM THEN BECAME IF HE NEEDED TO, LET'S SAY MAYBE HE WAS UNDER-BUDGETED IN SPECIAL TRANSPORTATION BUT OVER-BUDGETED IN REGULAR, HE WASN'T ABLE TO TRANSFER BETWEEN THOSE ACCOUNTS BECAUSE SHE WAS MANAGING AN ACCOUNT THAT HE WAS REALLY BUDGETING FOR AND MANAGING. 
          SO WE MOVED SPECIAL EDUCATION TRANSPORTATION OUT OF SPECIAL EDUCATION INTO TRANSPORTATION. 
          WE MOVED HOMELESS TRANSPORTATION OUT OF STUDENT SERVICES, TWILIGHT TRANSPORTATION OUT OF ALT-ED, AND EARLY COLLEGE TRANSPORTATION OUT OF THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FOR HIGH BECAUSE IT REALLY MADE SENSE THAT THE DIRECTOR OF TRANSPORTATION WAS ALREADY MANAGING ALL OF THOSE. 
          AND THE OTHER THING THAT BECAME A LITTLE BIT OF A STICKING MY POINT IS ANY ACCOUNT THAT'S IN MY ROLL-UP CODE, I HAVE THE OPTION TO DO A BUDGET AMENDMENT IF I DON'T HAVE ENOUGH IN ONE ACCOUNT TO MOVE FROM ONE ACCOUNT TO ANOTHER. 
          AND YOU WOULD SEE THAT HAPPEN A LOT IN TECHNOLOGY, WHERE MR. RICKENSRUD OR MR. WILLS WOULD BUDGET THINGS IN AN ACCOUNT AND SOMEONE ELSE LOOKING AT THAT ACCOUNT, OH, THAT'S MY ACCOUNT. 
          I DON'T NEED THAT MONEY THERE, AND THEY MOVE IT. 
          NOW THEY'RE READY TO PURCHASE SOMETHING AND THE MONEY IS NOT IN THAT ACCOUNT. 
          SO WE WERE REALLY JUST TRYING TO KIND OF GO BACK OVER WHO REALLY IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE SPENDING. 
          SO WE MOVED SOME THINGS THAT WERE IN MEDIA AND CTE AND SOME VARIOUS TECHNOLOGY EXPENSES FROM DEPARTMENTS INTO THE TECHNOLOGY ROLL-UP CODE. 
          AND PERSONAL WELLNESS, WE NO LONGER ARE USING THIS ROLL-UP CODE. 
          WE'VE ACTUALLY TAKEN ALL PERSONAL WELLNESS, WHICH IS TECHNICALLY ELEMENTARY HEALTH, AND WE'VE JUST MOVED IT INTO HEALTH WITH SECOND. 
          VERY HARD TO PUT IT TOGETHER, SO WE JUST REALLY COLLAPSED THE TWO. 
          SO IF YOU WERE TO GO BACK AND LOOK AT ROLL-UP CODE REPORTS, YOU WOULD SEE THE TECHNOLOGY REPORTS, IF YOU COMPARED TO WHAT WE PRINTED LAST YEAR, THEY LOOK DIFFERENT COMPARED YEAR TO YEAR BECAUSE IT CHANGES EVERYTHING HISTORICALLY. 
          BUT IF WE LOOK BY STATE CATEGORY, YOU'LL SEE THAT THEY STAY THE SAME. 
          SO HERE'S A ROLL-UP CODE COMPARISON EXAMPLE, AND I'M USING PAGE 26 IN THE APPROVED BUDGET BOOK FROM FY26 VERSUS WHAT YOU HAVE IN FRONT OF YOU NOW ON PAGE 42. 
          AND YOU CAN SEE THIS IS THE TRANSPORTATION ROLL-UP CODE. 
          SO AGAIN, THIS IS THE WAY THAT WE REPORT. 
          AND YOU CAN SEE LAST YEAR IN THE APPROVED BUDGET, OUR FY26 APPROVED BUDGET FOR BUS CONTRACTS WAS $9.9 MILLION. 
          SPECIAL TRANSPORTATION WAS $42,000. 
          THIS YEAR, WHEN YOU LOOK AT THIS AS A ROLL-DOWN, THAT THAT SAME INFORMATION, YOU CAN SEE THAT BUS CONTRACTS ARE $11.7 MILLION. 
          SPECIAL TRANSPORTATION IS $487,000. 
          AND THAT'S BECAUSE ALL OF THOSE THINGS THAT WE TALKED ABOUT IN TRANSPORTATION, SPECIAL ED TRANSPORTATION, HOMELESS, TWILIGHT, RIGHT? THEY ALL MOVED INTO THE TRANSPORTATION ROLL-UP CODE. 
          SO IT CHANGED THE NUMBERS HISTORICALLY JUST FOR THE WAY THAT WE GROUP AND REPORT. 
          BUT IF YOU LOOK AT STATE CATEGORIES, AND I'VE TAKEN THIS FROM THE APPROVED BUDGET BOOK FROM LAST YEAR AND THIS FROM THE BOOK IN FRONT OF YOU, HOW WE REPORT STUDENT TRANSPORTATION TO THE STATE WITH THIS 09 CATEGORY, YOU CAN SEE OUR NUMBERS FOR FY23 AND FY24 MATCH FY23 AND FY24. 
          AND OUR TOTAL APPROVED BUDGET MATCHES OUR TOTAL APPROVED BUDGET. 
          SO IN ESSENCE, ALL WE DID WAS WE CHANGED THIS MECHANISM IN THE BACKGROUND THAT GROUPS ACCOUNTS TOGETHER. 
          SO IF YOU WERE TO COMPARE – IF WE WERE TO TAKE LAST YEAR'S DETAIL WITH THIS YEAR'S DETAIL, YOU WOULD SEE SOME THINGS IN SOME DIFFERENT PLACES, BUT WE DID NOT CHANGE ACCOUNT NUMBERS OR STATE CATEGORIES OR STATE REPORTING. 
          SO HOW CLEAR IS THAT FOR YOU? BECAUSE THIS IS MY 17TH BUDGET CYCLE, AND I CAN TELL YOU THAT THIS IDEA OF IF CTE IS PURCHASING COMPUTERS, IT WAS ALWAYS AN INTERNAL – DOES THIS COME WITH CTE'S BUDGET OR DOES THIS COME WITH MR. RICKENDREW'S BUDGET? TRANSPORTATION AND TECHNOLOGY ARE THE TWO BIG ONES ON THIS ISSUE. 
          THIS IS A HISTORICAL PROBLEM THAT I GIVE MS. SOPA CREDIT FOR, FOR TRYING TO AT LEAST – SO WHAT LOOKS LIKE MIGHT BE A YEAR-OVER-YEAR INCREASE OR DECREASE IF IT HAS TO DO WITH TRANSPORTATION OR TECHNOLOGY BE SKEPTICAL AND ASK, AND WE'LL TRY TO RECONCILE IT FOR YOU. 
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BUT IF YOU LOOK AT THE OBJECT LEVEL, IT SHOULD BE THE SAME. 
          HOW YOU ROLL IT UP MAY BE DIFFERENT. 
          CORRECT. 
          SO I GUESS ONE OF MY QUESTIONS THEN, WELL, LAST WEEK AT OUR WORK SESSION, I HAD ASKED IF YOU COULD MAKE THE FTE POSITION SUMMARY, IF YOU COULD GET THE BUDGETED AMOUNTS FOR THAT. 
          AND YOU SAID WE'D BE GOING OVER THAT. 
          I WENT THROUGH IT, AND I FOUND IT ALL. 
          IT'S ALL IN HERE. 
          I BELIEVE IT. 
          BUT I CAN WALK THE NUMBERS ALL THE WAY THROUGH. 
          BUT IT TAKES A LOT OF WORK WHEN IT'S A PDF. 
          IS THIS AVAILABLE IN A SPREADSHEET WHERE IT'S MUCH EASIER TO SORT? WELL, IT IS, BUT IT'S A HUGE FILE THAT'S LINKED TO OTHER THINGS IN THE BACKGROUND. 
          SO I WOULD HAVE TO SEE, AND MR. WILLS OR MR. KLEIN, WE CAN TALK TO THEM ABOUT WHAT IT IS YOU WOULD HAVE TO BE PULLING FROM IN THE BACKGROUND. 
          I WOULD BE MUCH MORE COMFORTABLE WITH YOU COMING IN AND SITTING WITH BUSINESS SERVICES, AS OPPOSED TO PUTTING A NAKED FILE OUT THERE TO BE MANIPULATED, AND THEN WHO KNOWS WHERE IT ENDS UP AFTER THAT. 
          FAIR ENOUGH. 
          AND I UNDERSTAND THAT THAT MAY NOT BE SOMETHING THAT'S AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC, BUT I THINK THAT, LIKE, IF MR. FERNANDO HAD QUESTIONS, THERE'S THINGS THAT CAN BE DONE THAT WOULD EVEN MAKE IT EASIER ON YOU TO QUICKLY FIND THOSE ANSWERS WITHOUT HAVING TO SORT AND SCROLL THROUGH TENS OF THOUSANDS OF LINES IN A SPREADSHEET. 
          LISTEN, WE'RE ALL ABOUT MAKING THIS AS EASY AS POSSIBLE. 
          THIS IS NOT SIMPLE. 
          I'D LIKE TO TRY TO TAKE WHAT IS AN INCREDIBLY COMPLEX PROCESS AND SIMPLIFY IT. 
          IT'S A BUDGET FOR DUMMIES. 
          I'M OKAY WITH A BUDGET FOR DUMMIES DOCUMENT. 
          I'M NOT OKAY WITH, I WON'T SAY DUMMIES, MANIPULATING THE DOCUMENT, BUT YOU CAN SEE HOW THAT COULD BE A PROBLEM FOR US. 
          THIS IS A MASSIVE FILE THAT TAKES HOURS TO DOWNLOAD WHEN WE MAKE CHANGES TO IT. 
          SO, YEAH, I'M A LITTLE NERVOUS ABOUT PUTTING THE RAW FILE OUT THERE, BUT, AGAIN, YOU'RE WELCOME TO COME AND SIT WITH ONE OF OUR ACCOUNTANTS WITH A SOPA AND POUR THROUGH EVERY PIECE YOU WANT. 
          AND YOU'LL SEE, AGAIN, WE LIMITED WHAT WE WERE SHOWING HERE BECAUSE WE'RE REALLY JUST TALKING ABOUT EXPENSES AND DETAILS FOR THE UNRESTRICTED BUDGET. 
          EVEN IN THE FINAL BUDGET BOOK, THERE IS A SECTION AT THE BACK THAT GOES LINE BY LINE, AND, AGAIN, WE TRY TO GROUP IT IN A WAY THAT MAKES SENSE. 
          THAT'S WHERE REALLY THOSE ROLL-UP CODES COME FROM TO HELP IT MAKE MORE SENSE TO THE LAYPERSON WHO DOESN'T WORK WITH STATE CATEGORIES FREQUENTLY. 
          SO JUST SOME NOTES ABOUT WHAT WE'RE GOING TO LOOK AT TODAY, AND DR. LAWSON TOUCHED ON SOME OF THIS. 
          OUR UNRESTRICTED REVENUE PROJECTIONS INCLUDE THESE THINGS. 
          WE'RE USING $5 MILLION OF THE FUND BALANCE TO BALANCE THIS BUDGET, SO WE'VE ADDED THAT IN OUR REVENUE PROJECTION. 
          WE'VE ADDED $3 MILLION IN OPEB, OTHER POST-EMPLOYMENT BENEFITS FOR RETIREE HEALTH CARE, AND I'LL SHOW YOU WHERE THAT IS. 
          THAT'S INCLUDED AS MISCELLANEOUS REVENUE. 
          AND OUR REQUEST IS $10 MILLION ABOVE THE FY26 COUNTY APPROPRIATIONS. 
          SO WHAT THE COUNTY PROVIDED THIS YEAR, A LITTLE OVER $105 MILLION. 
          WE'VE ADDED $10 MILLION ON TO THAT. 
          THAT IS PART OF OUR REVENUE. 
          IN OUR UNRESTRICTED EXPENDITURES, WE'VE MADE PROPOSED REDUCTIONS IN RED ON THE SIDE. 
          THIS SPREADSHEET WILL TOTAL THE REDUCTIONS FOR YOU BY ROLL-UP CODE, BECAUSE WHAT HAPPENED HERE IS WHEN WE DID THESE REDUCTIONS, THEY'RE DONE MANUALLY IN THIS DOCUMENT. 
          WE DID NOT ENTER THESE INTO OUR ACCOUNTING SOFTWARE UNTIL WE'RE SURE THAT THESE ARE THE REDUCTIONS THAT ARE GOING TO STICK. 
          SO THERE ARE TOTAL PROPOSED REDUCTIONS AT THE END OF THE DOCUMENT AND ALSO ON THE SPREADSHEET THAT YOU HAVE. 
          SO WHAT WE DID WAS WE DID AS MANY, WORKING WITH DEPARTMENT HEADS, AS MANY REDUCTIONS AS WE COULD AND FIGURED OUT HOW MUCH WE WERE REDUCING FROM THE BUDGET. 
          AND THEN THE BALANCE OF THE REDUCTIONS STILL NEEDED ARE IN ONE LINE THAT SAYS SALARIES AND FIXED CHARGES REDUCTIONS. 
          SO YOU WON'T SEE THEM. 
          BY SCHOOL, BY POSITION, NONE OF THAT HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED. 
          IT'S JUST A FLAT AMOUNT. 
          DR. LAWSON SHARED AT THE BEGINNING ABOUT $7.5 MILLION THAT YOU'LL SEE IN ONE LINE AS A SALARY REDUCTION BECAUSE THE SPECIFIC REDUCTIONS ARE TO BE DETERMINED. 
          AND JUST REMEMBER, WE'RE REALLY NOT GOING TO LOOK AT THE RESTRICTED BUDGET AT ALL BECAUSE THAT MIRRORS WHAT WE HAVE, AND THAT'S ALL PART OF THE GRANTS, THE PROPOSALS THAT WERE WRITTEN TO GET THOSE GRANTS. 
          JUST TO ADD THAT IF YOU LOOK AT THE TOP PORTION OF MS. SOPA'S SLIDE HERE, THE $5 MILLION IN FUND BALANCE AND THE $3 MILLION IN OPEB, THEY ARE NON-RECURRING REVENUE SOURCES. 
          WE WOULD EXPECT THAT WHATEVER WE GET FROM THE COUNTY WILL BE RECURRING. 
          BY LAW, THAT'S WHAT THEY'RE REQUIRED TO DO. 
          BUT MY POINT HERE IS THAT, AGAIN, I'M TALKING ABOUT SYSTEMIC CHALLENGES TO THE SCHOOL SYSTEM. 
          THAT WE NOW KNOW, BASED
ON THE FY32 EXTENSION OF THE BLUEPRINT, IT CAN'T BE A MENTALITY OF, WELL, WE'LL JUST DO IT THIS YEAR TO GET THROUGH THIS YEAR, BECAUSE THE PROBLEM IS GOING TO CONTINUE TO HIT EVERY YEAR FOR AT LEAST THE NEXT FIVE YEARS. 
          THE SCHOOL SYSTEM NEEDS TO RECALIBRATE THE WAY WE DELIVER ALL OF OUR SYSTEMS AND PRODUCTS TO OUR CONSTITUENTS, 
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IF YOU WILL. 
          IS THERE ANY DEGREE OF CERTAINTY ON THE RESTRICTED REVENUES? I THINK IT WAS FY24 MAYBE THAT THERE WAS A REDUCTION IN SOME OF THE GRANTS. 
          YOU KEPT THOSE POSITIONS BY USING UNRESTRICTED REVENUES. 
          SO IF WE'RE GOING TO GO THROUGH THOSE AREAS, BUT WE STILL HAVE MANY THAT DO NEED UNRESTRICTED SIDE AND SUDDENLY THERE'S A REDUCTION IN THE RESTRICTED SIZE, WE'LL REALLY BE IN A JAM, WON'T WE? YES. 
          YEAH, IT'S A SHORT ANSWER. 
          THE GOOD PART ABOUT THAT IS, IF YOU WILL, THE GOOD PART, IS THAT BECAUSE IT'S COMING FROM A RESTRICTED FUNDING SOURCE, YOU KNOW EXACTLY WHERE THE REDUCTION HAS TO COME. 
          SO IF YOU'RE GETTING A $1 MILLION REDUCTION IN TITLE I, CLEARLY THAT REDUCTION IS COMING FROM TITLE I. 
          THE CHALLENGE WITH THIS IS ALL THESE VALUE JUDGMENTS HAVE TO GET MADE BECAUSE A LOT OF IT HAS TO DO WITH THE FOUNDATION, AND THAT'S WHERE YOUR FLEXIBILITY IS. 
          BUT THE SHORT ANSWER TO YOUR QUESTION IS YES. 
          AND DR. LAWSON ALSO SHARED. 
          IN HIS POWERPOINT, WE HAVE OUR PERCENT OF OUR WORKFORCE, OUR DISTRIBUTION BETWEEN OUR TRIPLE CTA MEMBERS, OUR CESPA MEMBERS, AND OUR ASA, COSLA, AND COPLA MEMBERS. 
          SO KEEPING IN MIND THAT WE NEED $7.5 MILLION IN ADDITIONAL REDUCTIONS TO BALANCE THE BUDGET AND THAT SALARIES AND FIXED CHARGES MAKE UP 79% OF OUR OPERATING BUDGET. 
          AND WE'LL COME BACK TO THIS. 
          SO WHAT WE'RE GOING TO DO IS WE'LL START ON PAGE ONE. 
          WE'RE OFF TO A GOOD START. 
          I'M GOING TO PREVIEW A COUPLE OF PAGES BEFORE I TURN IT OVER TO DR. BUCKLEY. 
          SO HERE ON THIS PAGE, WE TALKED ABOUT THIS BEING THE OPERATING BUDGET. 
          SO REMEMBER, OPERATING BUDGET IS UNRESTRICTED PLUS RESTRICTED TOGETHER. 
          THIS IS A REALLY BIG, HIGH-LEVEL OVERVIEW, WHICH IS WHY WE'RE NOT GOING TO SPEND SOME TIME ON THIS. 
          THIS IS ALL JUST THE FIRST PAGE. 
          IT'S ALL OPERATING BUDGET REVENUE. 
          IF WE SCROLL TO PAGE TWO, YOU CAN SEE AGAIN HERE THIS IS THE OPERATING BUDGET. 
          BUT THESE ARE ALL OF OUR EXPENSES, AGAIN, ALL BY STATE CATEGORY. 
          AND AGAIN, BIG, HIGH-LEVEL NUMBERS THAT WE SHARED AT THE END OF OUR LAST BUDGET PRESENTATION. 
          THE NEXT PAGE, THIS IS WHERE I'D LIKE TO DRAW YOUR ATTENTION TO FIRST ON PAGE THREE. 
          SO THIS IS JUST THE UNRESTRICTED REVENUE, SO JUST A PART FOR BUDGET THAT WE'RE TALKING
ABOUT TODAY. 
          AND I MENTIONED IN MY POWERPOINT LOCAL REVENUE, THIS IS OUR COUNTY REVENUE, AND THAT THIS INCLUDES $10 MILLION OVER WHAT THEY PROVIDED FOR FY26. 
          SO HERE'S OUR FY26 CONTRIBUTION. 
          HERE'S WHAT WE'RE REQUESTING AT THIS POINT IN TIME FOR FY27. 
          AND YOU CAN SEE THE INCREASE THERE. 
          I ALSO MENTIONED THAT THE REVENUE INCLUDES FUND BALANCE, AND SO THIS IS LISTED AS FROM PRIOR YEAR. 
          THAT'S HOW FUND BALANCE IS LISTED IN MUNIS. 
          YOU CAN SEE THAT WE USED $10 MILLION TO BALANCE THE BUDGET IN FY26. 
          WE'RE PROPOSING TO USE $5 IN FY27. 
          SO YOU CAN SEE THAT THAT'S A NEGATIVE $5 MILLION. 
          AND I ALSO MENTIONED THE USE OF OPEB, WHICH IS DOWN HERE IN MISCELLANEOUS REVENUE. 
          SO YOU CAN SEE THIS INCREASE HERE, A LITTLE OVER $3 MILLION. 
          YOU CAN SEE $3 MILLION OF THAT IS OUR PROPOSED USE OF OPEB FOR RETIREE HEALTH CARE. 
          SO TO BALANCE OUR EXPENSES WITH OUR REVENUE, WE'VE ADDED THESE REVENUE SOURCES TO THE SOURCES FROM THE STATE, THE BLUEPRINT FUNDING. 
          ANY QUESTIONS THERE? SO THE NEXT PAGE IS, AGAIN, JUST THE UNRESTRICTED BUDGET THIS TIME, AND IT'S THE EXPENSE SIDE OF IT. 
          SO WHAT WE WERE JUST LOOKING AT WAS ALL THE REVENUE. 
          THIS IS THE EXPENSE SIDE BEFORE ANY OF THE REDUCTIONS. 
          SO THIS IS WHAT WE PRESENTED TO YOU AT OUR BOARD MEETING LAST WEEK. 
          IT IS BY STATE CATEGORY. 
          WE SHOW IT BY OBJECT AT THE BOTTOM. 
          SO, AGAIN, REAL HIGH-LEVEL DATA, SAME NUMBERS THAT YOU SAW LAST WEEK, BECAUSE WHAT WE'RE GOING TO GET INTO IS SOME MORE DETAIL. 
          THE NEXT PAGES, BECAUSE I KNOW SOMETIMES PEOPLE LIKE A LITTLE MORE HISTORY THAN WHAT WE'RE ABLE TO PROVIDE ON THE DETAIL PAGES. 
          THE DETAIL PAGES, WE'RE VERY LIMITED IN WHAT WE CAN GET ONTO A PAGE THAT WILL MAKE IT READABLE AND USER-FRIENDLY. 
          SO IF YOU'RE REALLY LOOKING TO COMPARE LONGER TERM, THE FIRST REPORT THAT WE HAVE IS, AGAIN, OUR UNRESTRICTED EXPENSES, BUT WE DO A MULTI-YEAR COMPARISON. 
          WE GIVE YOU ACTUALS FROM FY23, 24, AND 25. 
          WE GIVE YOU THIS YEAR'S APPROVED BUDGET AND WHAT'S BEING REQUESTED FOR NEXT YEAR, AGAIN, BEFORE THE REDUCTIONS. 
          BUT THIS IS REALLY HIGH LEVEL BECAUSE IT'S BY STATE CATEGORY AND IT'S 
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BY OBJECT. 
          IT DOESN'T GIVE YOU ANY OF THOSE DETAILS. 
          SO IF YOU WANTED TO REFER BACK TO ANYTHING THAT WE LOOK AT TODAY, YOU COULD GO TO THIS REPORT AND YOU CAN SEE THE HIGH-LEVEL OVERVIEW. 
          YOU CAN SEE MULTIPLE YEARS. 
          YOU JUST CAN'T SEE DETAIL THAT FAR BACK. 
          SO WHERE WE'RE REALLY GOING TO START OUR TIME IS STARTING ON PAGE 27, AND THIS IS THE SAME UNRESTRICTED EXPENSE BUDGET, AND THIS IS WHERE WE'RE GOING TO START TO LOOK AT SOME DETAILS, BUT I'M GOING TO TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT HOW THE REPORT IS SET UP, AND THEN I'LL HAND IT – PAGE 27, MS. OLSON. 
          IT'S NOT THE PDF PAGE, IT'S THE – YEP, IT'LL HAVE ADMINISTRATION. 
          YEP, A LITTLE BIT. 
          THERE WE GO. 
          SO HERE'S WHERE YOU'LL START TO SEE THE DETAIL ON PAGE 27, AND JUST A LITTLE BIT ABOUT HOW THIS IS SET UP. 
          SO IN THESE DARKER BLUE LINES WITH THE WHITE TEXT, THESE ARE THE ROLL-UP CODES THAT I WAS DISCUSSING EARLIER. 
          SO THIS IS THE WAY THAT WE GROUP ACCOUNTS TOGETHER TO MAKE IT MORE UNDERSTANDABLE FOR PEOPLE AND TO PROVIDE SOME OWNERSHIP FOR WHO MANAGES THE ACCOUNTS. 
          AND THEN UNDER THAT, WE BREAK IT DOWN BY STATE CATEGORY. 
          SO YOU CAN SEE UNDER THE BOARD, THE ONLY STATE CATEGORY THAT EXISTS IS ADMINISTRATION. 
          AND THEN WE SHOW YOU THE OBJECT NUMBER. 
          SO REMEMBER THE OBJECT NUMBER IS WHAT ARE WE PAYING FOR. 
          AND THEN THERE'S A LITTLE DESCRIPTION OF THE OBJECT NUMBER. 
          SO JUST AT THE BEGINNING HERE, IF WE'RE LOOKING AT THE ROLL-UP OF THE BOARD, IT'S A STATE CATEGORY 01 FOR ADMINISTRATION, AND THE FIRST OBJECT HERE IS THE BOARD MEMBER STIPENDS, AND THAT'S WHAT THOSE FOUR DIGITS REPRESENT. 
          SO FOR EVERYTHING THAT WE DISCUSS TODAY WITH THE ROLL-UP CODE. IT WILL BE BROKEN DOWN BY STATE CATEGORIES. 
          THEN UNDER EACH STATE CATEGORY, WE'LL HAVE THESE OBJECTS WITH A SHORT DESCRIPTION OF WHAT THOSE OBJECTS ARE. 
          THEN YOU'LL SEE THE DETAIL REQUESTS. 
          SOME OF THEM REQUIRE DETAIL, SOME OF THEM DON'T, DEPENDING ON WHAT IT IS. 
          BUT YOU'LL SEE OUR ACTUAL OVERALL NUMBER FOR AN OBJECT. 
          YOU'LL SEE OUR PROPOSED BUDGET, OUR APPROVED FY26 BUDGET, SORRY. 
          SO FY25 ACTUAL, FY26 APPROVED. 
          YOU'LL SEE WHAT WE'VE REQUESTED FOR FY27. 
          AND IF THERE'S ANY DETAIL, YOU'LL SEE THAT BELOW HERE. 
          SO KEEP IN MIND, FOR THE BOARD, EVERYTHING ROLLS UP INSTEAD OF DOWN. 
          SO THE TOTAL FOR THE BOARD IS HERE, AND ALL THE DETAIL IS BELOW IT. 
          SO SOMETIMES WE'RE USED TO SEEING THE TOTAL AT THE BOTTOM. 
          WE HAVE TO THINK ABOUT IT A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENTLY. 
          THE TOTAL IS UP HERE, AND THEN IT'S SORT OF LIKE A DROP-DOWN, AND THEN YOU SEE EVERYTHING THAT GOES INTO IT. 
          AND THEN YOU CAN ALSO SEE THE INCREASE YEAR OVER YEAR. 
          THAT'S JUST A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE SETUP. 
          AND WITH THAT, I'LL HAND IT OVER TO DR. BUCKLEY. 
          WE GOOD? QUESTIONS? OKAY. 
          GOOD MORNING. 
          SO WE'RE GOING TO START WITH DEPARTMENT 10,000. 
          FIRST OFF, MS. OLSON IS GOING TO BE SCROLLING FOR US AS WE GO THROUGH. 
          DR. HAMMER AND I ARE GOING TO BE SUPPORTING ONE ANOTHER AND HIGHLIGHTING THE LINE ITEMS AS WE KIND OF GO THROUGH THEM. 
          YOU'RE ONLY GOING TO GET A PORTION OF EACH PAGE PRESENTED AT ONE TIME, SO WE'LL TRY TO MATCH OUR CADENCE WITH THE SCROLL SO THAT EVERYBODY IS ABLE TO SEE WHAT WE'RE DEALING WITH HERE. 
          SO WE'RE GOING TO START WITH THE BOARD, AGAIN, DEPARTMENT 10,000. 
          AND YOU'RE GOING TO SEE AT THE TOP LEFT THERE, THERE'S AN INCREASE IN THIS DEPARTMENT OF $63,925. 
          WHERE YOU'RE GOING TO SEE THAT REFLECTED IS GOING TO BE IN OUR LEGAL FEES, 0203. 
          YOU'RE GOING TO SEE AN INCREASE THERE OF $44,000. 
          THAT'S BASED UPON OUR EXPERIENCE. 
          SO WE LOOK BACK NOT ONLY ON THIS YEAR BUT PRIOR YEARS AS TO WHAT OUR EXPERIENCES HAVE BEEN, AND THEN WE KIND OF BASE OUR BUDGET UPON THAT. 
          YOU'RE ALSO GOING TO SEE AN INCREASE THERE FOR CONTRACTED SERVICES OF $11,975. 
          THAT'S BASICALLY GOING TO BE TIED TO DILIGENT. 
          AND SO AS WE'VE TRANSITIONED FROM BOARD DOCS INTO DILIGENT, THERE'S GOING TO BE AN INCREASE IN THE FEES ASSOCIATED WITH THAT. 
          AND THEN AT THE BOTTOM THERE, THIS WILL BE THE FIRST YEAR, I BELIEVE, FOR OUR STUDENT MEMBER OF THE BOARD. 
          THE THING THAT JUMPED OUT A SCHOLARSHIP OF $1,000. 
          ANY QUESTIONS FOR THAT ONE? OKAY. 
          WE'RE GOING TO KEEP GOING DOWN IN THE MIDDLE OF PAGE 27. 
          DEPARTMENT 20,000, THE SUPERINTENDENT. 
          AND, AGAIN, YOU'LL SEE OVER ON THE FAR RIGHT THERE'S AN INCREASE HERE OF $3,493. 
          ESSENTIALLY THIS IS FLAT, THIS PARTICULAR DEPARTMENT. 
          A LOT OF SUBSCRIPTIONS AND A LOT OF MEMBERSHIPS ARE IN THERE. 
          AND SO WHAT YOU'LL FIND IS THAT YEAR OVER YEAR THERE ARE UPTICKS AND PERCENT INCREASES ASSOCIATED WITH THAT. 
          AND SO THAT'S WHERE THE $3,500 DIFFERENCE COMES FROM. 
          I DO HAVE A QUESTION. 
          SO ON THE 505 CATEGORY, THE MEMBERSHIPS, YOUR BUDGET REQUEST IS FOR ALMOST $135,000 TOTAL COMBINED 
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ON ALL THE CATEGORIES AND ROLL-UP CODES. 
          I KNOW THEY'RE IMPORTANT. 
          BUT WHAT IS THE BENEFIT TO THAT COST, THE REAL BENEFIT? WHEN WE'RE FACING THESE REAL BUDGET SHORTFALLS, WHAT'S THE REAL BENEFIT TO THOSE? SO YOUR 0505 MEMBERSHIPS, $1,500, CORRECT? WELL, I'M TALKING EVERYTHING IN THIS BOOK FOR THE UNRESTRICTED 0505 IS $135,000 OR A LITTLE LESS. 
          SO IF YOU LOOK AT THE ENTIRETY OF THE CATEGORY. 
          IS THAT SOMETHING THAT SHOULD BE LOOKED AT CLOSER? I'LL TAKE A STAB AT THAT. 
          OBVIOUSLY I KNOW THAT WE HAVE A NUMBER OF MEMBERSHIPS. 
          THAT WE GAIN BENEFIT FROM, AND THROUGH THAT, IT'S LIKE A CONSORTIUM TYPE OF ENVIRONMENT WHERE YOU'RE WORKING WITH OTHER LEAS AND OTHER PROFESSIONALS IN THE STATE OF MARYLAND, IN OUR REGION, AND SO YOU'RE ABLE TO KIND OF POOL RESOURCES AND INFORMATION TO MAKE INFORMED DECISIONS. 
          ANY LEGISLATIVE CHANGES THAT COME ALONG, ANY WORK ALONG THOSE LINES, THAT IS OFTEN WHERE THAT INFORMATION WILL BE DISSEMINATED AND WHERE WE'RE ABLE TO THEN WORK WITH COLLEAGUES OF SIMILAR POSITION TO KIND OF ASSIMILATE ALL OF THAT DATA AND ASSESS THE IMPACT FOR OUR LEA. 
          AND I'LL DEFER TO MS. SOFA. 
          AND I WOULD GIVE THE EXAMPLE IN OUR DEPARTMENT FOR CRITICAL UPDATES. 
          SO WE HAVE AMERICAN PAYROLL ASSOCIATION, GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTING, GOVERNMENT FINANCE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION. 
          SO THERE ARE A NUMBER OF THEM WHERE WE BELONG TO THOSE ASSOCIATIONS AND THEN INFORMATION IS PUSHED TO US. 
          SO, FOR EXAMPLE, IF THERE ARE CHANGES IN LAWS OR TAXES, AND THEN WE ALSO GET WEBINARS THAT WE CAN SIGN UP FOR THAT ARE PART OF OUR MEMBERSHIP. 
          AND SO THAT'S REALLY IMPORTANT, ESPECIALLY THERE'S A NEW NO TAX ON OVERTIME. 
          AND SO IT WAS OUR INFORMATION FROM THE AMERICAN PAYROLL ASSOCIATION AND WHAT WE NEEDED TO DO WITH W-2. 
          SO IT TAKES SOME OF THE TIME TO CARE ACT. 
          IT TAKES SOME OF THE GUESSWORK OUT OF JUST COUNTING ON US TO JUST KNOW WHAT'S HAPPENING AND BE OUT THERE LOOKING FOR IT WHEN YOU HAVE THOSE MEMBERSHIPS AND YOU HAVE THAT SUPPORT. 
          AND THE OTHER THING IS WE ALSO HAVE WRITTEN INTO OUR NEGOTIATED AGREEMENTS PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS FOR ADMINISTRATORS THAT THEY ARE ELIGIBLE FOR A STIPEND FOR THOSE MEMBERSHIPS AS PART OF THEIR NEGOTIATED AGREEMENTS. 
          I GET THAT AND I UNDERSTAND. 
          NOW LET ME GO ANOTHER 10,000 FEET UP. 
          I DON'T KNOW OF ANY SYSTEM IN MARYLAND OF THE 24 THAT'S NOT PART OF MNS, PASAM, MABE, THE WHOLE THING. 
          AND SO, YEAH, I THINK LET'S FACE IT. 
          WHAT YOU'RE SUGGESTING IS A BINARY FUNCTION. 
          WE EITHER DO IT OR WE DON'T. 
          THERE IS NO SCALING BACK KIND OF THING. 
          YOU'RE NOT GOING TO BE HALF OF MNS. 
          BUT THAT IT'S PART OF THE PROFESSIONAL NETWORK IN THE STATE OF MARYLAND. 
          DO I THINK IT HAS A PLACE? 150%. 
          AND, AGAIN, I WOULD SUGGEST TO YOU THIS GOES BACK AND IT TOOK ALL OF TWO PAGES. 
          THIS GOES BACK TO WHAT I WAS SAYING. 
          WHAT IS IT THAT WE VALUE AS A SCHOOL SYSTEM? AND IF WE'RE GOING TO CUT TIES WITH THE DIFFERENT PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS THAT SUPPORT I MEAN WE'RE A COUNTY SCHOOL SYSTEM AS IT IS. 
          CAN YOU IMAGINE WHAT THESE COSTS WOULD BE STATEWIDE IN A PLACE LIKE PENNSYLVANIA WHERE THEY HAVE 620 DISTRICTS? MARYLAND'S GOT 24. 
          SO, YEAH, I THINK THERE'S A PLACE FOR IT. 
          I ABSOLUTELY AGREE. 
          THE QUESTION BECOMES, WELL, IS THIS MORE IMPORTANT THAN THREE PARAPROFESSIONALS? BECAUSE THAT'S WHERE EVERYBODY'S HEAD GOES. 
          AND IF THAT'S HOW YOU FEEL, NO JUDGMENT. 
          BUT I CAN'T GO THROUGH THIS WITHOUT. 
          THERE IS VALUE. 
          JUST AS THERE'S VALUE IN IN-PERSON COLLABORATION AT CONFERENCES AND SUCH. 
          WHEN YOU LOOK AT IT IN THE ROLL-UP CODE, YOU SEE, OH, IT'S $1,000 FOR THIS. 
          IT DOESN'T REALLY HIT THE SAME. 
          $130,000 OUT OF A NEARLY $300 MILLION BUDGET ISN'T THAT LARGE EITHER. 
          BUT JUST I WOULD ASK THAT WE CONSIDER IT. 
          CONSIDER WHAT? THAT'S STILL PEOPLE WE EMPLOY. 
          AND WITH THE $7 MILLION REDUCTION IN SALARIES OR TOTAL COMPENSATION, THAT SOUNDS MORE THAN WHAT WE'LL LOSE IN ATTRITION. 
          I'LL PUSH BACK A LITTLE BIT. 
          SO, ARE YOU SUGGESTING WE PULL AWAY FROM M&S, MAIB, PAZAM? BECAUSE THAT WOULD BE THE NET EFFECT. 
          THIS CAME UP STRICTLY FROM THE BOARD ROLL-UP. 
          BUT IN THE I CATEGORY, I LOOKED AT IT. 
          I WASN'T LOOKING AT THE ROLL-UP. 
          AND, AGAIN, THAT WOULD GO WHERE IF I HAD THE SPREADSHEET, I COULD DO IT EASIER. 
          BUT I WAS GOING THROUGH, AND EVERY TIME A 505 CAME UP, I ADDED IT UP, AND THAT'S HOW I GOT THE NUMBER. 
          AND WHEN YOU SEE 130,000, WELL, THAT'S A TEACHER. 
          THAT'S WHAT I'M ASKING FOR. 
          I'M NOT SAYING WE NEED TO GET RID OF MAEVE AND OUR PRESIDENT. 
          I'M SAYING JUST REALLY THE VALUE OF IT WHEN WE'RE TALKING OF REDUCING NOT JUST POSITIONS, BUT PEOPLE. 
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MR. HAMPTON, WHAT I CAN ASSURE YOU IS IF YOU TAKE AWAY IN YOUR LAST THREE MINUTES OF SPEAKING, IF YOU PULL OUT ALL PROPER NOUNS FOR THE NEXT TWO HOURS, THE EXACT SAME DYNAMIC WITH DIFFERENT PROPER NOUNS, IT'S GOING TO BE THE VALUE JUDGMENT OF THIS, THIS, THIS WHEN WE COULD A TEACHER, A PARAPROFESSIONAL, A COORDINATOR, THE WHOLE THING. 
          TO BE FAIR, I ASKED THE SAME QUESTION LAST YEAR AND THE YEAR BEFORE ABOUT MEMBERSHIPS. 
          ABSOLUTELY. 
          AND THE QUESTION WAS, ARE WE LOOKING AT ELIMINATING THINGS THAT WE'VE JUST ALWAYS DONE AND MAKING SURE THAT WE'RE NOT JUST DOING THEM BECAUSE WE'VE JUST ALWAYS DONE THEM? I CAN ASSURE YOU ON THIS IN PARTICULAR, NOW THAT MAY BE THE CASE LATER IN THE MORNING, BUT I CAN ASSURE YOU ON THIS, NO, IT'S HOW WE STAY UP TO DATE. 
          FOR INSTANCE, I'M MISSING A LEGISLATIVE CALL RIGHT NOW, AND THAT'S ALL SUPPORTED BY PEZAN. 
          THAT'S HOW WE STAY ON TOP OF LEGISLATIVE ISSUES AND ADVOCATE FOR LEGISLATIVE ISSUES. 
          THE BIG COSTS ARE PEZAN, MABE, OF THOSE PEZAN, MABE, AND ESMEC. 
          NOW, MABE COMES WITH SOME INSURANCE BENEFITS TOO, RIGHT? SO MABE HAS SOME ADDITIONAL BENEFITS THAT COME WITH IT, AND I'M SURE THE OTHER ONES DO TOO. 
          I THINK MAYBE THAT'S WHAT YOU'RE ASKING IS TO UNDERSTAND, AND THAT'S PROBABLY OFF TOPIC. 
          WE DO THAT SOME OTHER TIME, BUT I KNOW I BROUGHT UP THE SAME QUESTION, LIKE ARE WE DOING SOMETHING JUST BECAUSE WE ALWAYS HAVE OR BECAUSE THEY'RE REALLY NECESSARY? AND YOU SAID YOU LOOKED INTO IT LAST YEAR, THE YEAR BEFORE. 
          I MEAN, YOU'RE DOING IT BECAUSE IT'S PART OF THE SUPERINTENDENT'S NETWORK IN THE STATE OF MARYLAND. 
          IT'S HOW MARYLAND DOES BUSINESSES, AND EXTREMELY HIGH-FUNCTIONING GROUP THAT'S CRITICAL TO WHAT HAPPENS, AND I THINK THE STATE SUPERINTENDENT WOULD TELL YOU THAT, THE STATE BOARD WOULD TELL YOU THAT, MABE WOULD TELL YOU THAT, SO YEAH. 
          OKAY. 
          WE'LL CONTINUE AGAIN. 
          SO IN 20,000, THE SUPERINTENDENT THERE, AGAIN, A SLIGHT INCREASE OF $3,500 ASSOCIATED WITH WHAT I HAD INDICATED BEFORE, SUBSCRIPTIONS, MEMBERSHIPS, AND THINGS OF THAT NATURE. 
          THERE'S A PERCENT INCREASE THAT WILL BE AFFILIATED AND ASSOCIATED WITH SOME OF THOSE. 
          THE NEXT ITEM I'D LIKE TO MOVE ON TO IS DIVISION OF ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES, DEPARTMENT 30,000 AT THE BOTTOM OF PAGE 27. 
          YOU'LL SEE, YOU'LL NOTE A INCREASE HERE, SO THAT IS RELATIVELY FLAT YEAR OVER YEAR. 
          ANY QUESTIONS? OKAY. 
          WE CAN MOVE ON TO THE TOP OF PAGE 28, DEPARTMENT 30,100, HR AND BENEFITS. 
          YOU'RE GOING TO SEE A SLIGHT INCREASE HERE OF $12,167. 
          THE BIGGEST PIECE OF THIS IS TIED TO THE TIME TO CARE ACT. 
          AND AGAIN, I'LL JUST REMIND EVERYONE THAT THE TIME TO CARE ACT WAS A LEGISLATIVE ACTION THAT WAS TAKEN. 
          IT IS NOT YET IMPLEMENTED, BUT WE ARE IN A POOL WITH 104 OTHER MEMBERS TO POOL THOSE RESOURCES TO REDUCE THE EXPENSE ASSOCIATED WITH THAT. 
          IT'S KIND OF A SUPPLEMENT COMPLIMENT TO FMLA, IF YOU'LL RECALL. 
          RIGHT NOW, IN THE LEGISLATIVE LANGUAGE, IT'S AN 8% COST ON TOTAL SALARIES AND SUCH, THAT 8% WILL THEN BE NEGOTIATED WITH EACH EMPLOYEE GROUP. 
          AS TO WHAT PERCENT IS PAID BY EMPLOYEE, WHICH PERCENT IS PAID BY EMPLOYER. 
          RIGHT NOW, IT'S THE STRUCTURE, THE ORGANIZATION, THE SETUP, AND THE RFP PROCESS THAT IS BEING UNDERTAKEN RIGHT NOW. 
          AND THAT'S WHY WE HAVE THE $12,000 CHARGE THERE FOR THAT. 
          THE NEXT ITEM I'D LIKE TO MOVE ON TO IS DEPARTMENT 30,200, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY. 
          MR. RICKENSRUD IS HERE WITH US. 
          OUR PANEL OF EXPERTS BEHIND US. 
          THIS REALLY IS HIS BAILIWICK, AND HE CAN TELL YOU EVERYTHING THAT'S IN HERE. 
          THIS WILL BE THE FIRST DEPARTMENT WHERE YOU WILL START TO SEE RED FONT. 
          AND I WOULD BRING A DISTINCTION BETWEEN A RED STRIKETHROUGH AND A RED FONT. 
          SO AT THE TOP
OF THIS DEPARTMENT, YOU'RE GOING TO SEE A RED STRIKETHROUGH. 
          WHAT THAT IS, IS THAT'S SUGGESTING THAT ENTIRE LINE ITEM BE STRUCK. 
          AT THE BOTTOM, NEAR THE VERY BOTTOM OF PAGE 28, YOU'RE GOING TO SEE UNDER 0322, NETWORK SERVICES SUPPLIES. 
          THAT'S JUST A RED FONT. 
          IT'S NOT STRUCK THROUGH. 
          WHAT'S BEING RECOMMENDED THERE IS A REDUCTION IN THAT LINE ITEM. 
          SO IF IT'S STRUCK THROUGH THE WHOLE THING, IF IT'S JUST A RED FONT, A REDUCTION. 
          SO NOW MOVING BACK UP TO THE TOP OF THAT, THIS ALSO, IF YOU'LL REFERENCE YOUR SPREADSHEET, THERE'S AN INSIDE JACKET OF YOUR PORTFOLIO THAT YOU GOT THIS MORNING. 
          THIS WILL BE THE FIRST DEPARTMENT WHERE YOU WILL SEE A REDUCTION, A SUGGESTED REDUCTION AMOUNT, AND THAT'S OF $944,904. 
          SO AS WE GO THROUGH, I'D LIKE TO GO SLIDE DOWN TO 0267 SOFTWARE LICENSE YOU'RE GOING TO SEE A $100,000 INCREASE HERE WITH CROWDSTRIKE. 
          THAT IS A CYBERSECURITY FUNCTION THAT WORKS WITHIN OUR SYSTEM. 
          LAST YEAR WAS THE FIRST YEAR OF THAT. 
          IT WAS A GRANT. 
          SO THAT GRANT HAS SINCE EXPIRED, SO THAT $100,000 IS BEING ABSORBED INTO OUR OPERATING BUDGET. 
          GOING ON DOWN, YOU WILL SEE THE THIRD RED STRIKE THERE, THE MISSED WIRELESS 3-YEAR RENEWAL OF $400,000. 
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ESSENTIALLY WHAT THAT IS IS A SERVICE AGREEMENT ON OUR WIRELESS ACCESS POINTS. 
          SO IF YOU LOOK INTO THE CEILING AND YOU SEE OUR WIRELESS ACCESS POINTS, THAT IS A SERVICE AGREEMENT THAT WE HAVE ELECTED TO STRIKE, SO THAT RESPONSIBILITY WILL NOW FALL UPON OUR TECHNICIANS AND TECHNOLOGY TO BE ABLE IF THERE ARE ISSUES OR CHALLENGES WITH THAT. 
          THEY'LL HAVE TO WORK THROUGH THAT PROCESS TO IDENTIFY AND FIX AND RESOLVE THOSE PROBLEMS. SO THAT'S A $400,000 OVER THREE-YEAR RENEWAL THAT WE'RE RECOMMENDING THAT WE REDUCE. 
          THE NEXT ONE THERE IS THE CANARIES. 
          IF YOU WILL THINK OF THE CANARY IN THE COAL MINE, TO STEAL FROM MR. RICKENSRUD, IT'S A WARNING. 
          AND SO IT'S A WARNING WITHIN OUR EMAIL STRUCTURE, WITHIN OUR TECHNOLOGY, THAT KIND OF FLOATS THINGS OUT THERE THAT IF SOMEONE IS TRYING TO ATTACK OUR SYSTEM, THEY WOULD LATCH ONTO THAT AND IT WOULD SEND AN ALARM AND SEND A WARNING TO US. 
          AND SO WE'RE SUGGESTING THAT THAT BE STRUCK AGAIN AT $9,000. 
          YOU'RE ALSO GOING TO NOTICE HERE OUR POWERSCHOOL STUDENT INFORMATION SYSTEM. 
          SEVERAL LINE ITEMS FOR THAT. 
          YOU'RE GOING TO SEE OUR TYLER MUNIS, OUR ERP SYSTEM THAT'S IN THERE. 
          EACH OF THOSE ARE MULTI-YEAR CONTRACTS. 
          THERE ARE ESCALATORS THAT ARE BUILT INTO THOSE CONTRACTS YEAR OVER YEAR. 
          AND SO YOU'LL FIND INCREASES WITHIN EACH OF THOSE. 
          AT THE BOTTOM OF THAT, ANY QUESTIONS ON THAT? AND THEN AT THE BOTTOM, PAGE 280322, SUPPLIES. 
          AGAIN, YOU'LL SEE TWO AREAS THAT WE ARE RECOMMENDING TO BE STRUCK THERE AND ONE A REDUCTION. 
          YOU HAVE A QUESTION. 
          AT THE TOP OF 2208, WE HAD A REDUCTION OR A STRIKE OF SECURITY CONSULTING. 
          WAS THAT SOMETHING WE HAD OR SOMETHING WE WERE GOING TO? OUR STUDENT SERVICES DECIDING NOT TO? WE DO HAVE SOME CONSULTING THROUGH MABE, LIKE THROUGH THE ALLIANCE, STUFF THAT'S PART OF THAT. 
          THIS WAS IN ADDITION OPPORTUNITY FOR SOME OF THE THINGS THAT WE'RE TRYING TO DO FOR OUR DISASTER RECOVERY AND SOME OF THE OTHER OPTIONS THAT WE'RE DOING. 
          AND SO AT THIS POINT, WE'RE JUST STRIKING IT THROUGH. 
          WE WILL CONTINUE BUT DO IT MORE INTERNALLY AND LEVERAGE SOME OF THE SERVICES THAT WE HAVE THROUGH LIKE MABE AND SOME OF THAT CONSULTING ASPECT THERE. 
          WOULD IT BE FAIR TO SAY THAT SOME OF THESE REDUCTIONS ARE THINGS WE WERE GOING TO BE ADDING THAT WE'RE DECIDING NOT TO ADD, MORE SO THAN SOMETHING WE USED TO HAVE THAT WE'RE GETTING RID OF? WELL, THE CANARIES ARE A REPLACEMENT, RIGHT, BECAUSE THERE'S ALWAYS AN END OF LIFE IN EQUIPMENT, AND THE SAME THING WITH THE ZOOM ROOMS. I WOULD SAY THE MISSED RENEWAL, THEY CAME UP. 
          IT'S MORE OF AN ONGOING COST. 
          SO IT'S NOT SOMETHING WE WANTED TO DO AS FAR AS NEW. 
          IT'S JUST A CONTINUATION OF JUST PROVIDING THAT SERVICE OVERALL. 
          AND I GUESS I WANT TO ASK THAT QUESTION AS OVERALL TO EVERYBODY. 
          LIKE WHEN WE GET TO OTHER CATEGORIES, TOO, THERE ARE SOME THINGS THAT WE WERE GOING TO HAVE IN THE BUDGET THAT WASN'T PRIOR IN THE BUDGET. 
          THEY WERE NEW THINGS THAT WE THOUGHT WE WERE GOING TO DO, BUT NOW WE'RE NOT GOING TO BE ABLE TO DO, MORE SO THAN STRAIGHT CUTS, CORRECT? WE WILL DO OUR BEST TO POINT THAT DISTINCTION OUT ALONG THE WAY, BUT THAT'S A GOOD POINT. 
          I SENT AN EMAIL ASKING THAT BECAUSE YOU CAN'T SEE, AND UNFORTUNATELY, THE SYSTEM DOESN'T ALLOW US TO SEE THE BREAKDOWN OF PREVIOUS YEARS, WHICH WOULD BE REALLY NICE IF THAT WAS AVAILABLE. 
          LIKE WHERE WE SEE IN CATEGORY 0208, THE 10 ITEMS UNDERNEATH THERE, WE CAN ONLY SEE THE BUDGET REQUEST, BUT WE CAN'T SEE WHAT THE 26 APPROVED WAS. 
          AS A ROLL DOWN, THAT WOULD BE A FANTASTIC FEATURE FOR THE FUTURE. 
          UNLESS YOU LAY FY26 SIDE BY SIDE WITH FY27, CORRECT? YES. 
          WHICH I DID ASK ABOUT. 
          AND I HAVE IT ON HERE, BUT TO DO IT IS ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE. 
          I MEAN, IT'S LIKE BECAUSE THE PAGES DON'T LINE UP, BECAUSE SOME OF THE STUFF MOVED IN CATEGORIES. 
          SO IT'S LIKE IT TAKES A LOT OF EFFORT TO DO THAT, AND IT WOULD BE SOMETHING SOFTWARE-WISE I WOULD THINK THAT COULD BE DEVELOPED WHERE IT JUST SHOULD BE IN THAT DROP-DOWN CATEGORY. 
          I REALLY DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY IT CAN'T BE. 
          SO I'M NOT THE BUILDER OF THE REPORT, BUT THE BUILDER OF THE REPORT IS HERE, AND MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT FOR US TO PUT IT IN A READABLE FORMAT, YOU COULDN'T FIT ON THE PAGE WHAT YOU NEEDED TO FIT TO GET THE DATA THAT YOU NEEDED. 
          AND KEEP IN MIND, ALL OF THE LINES AREN'T – IT GETS REALLY JUMBLED BECAUSE YOU DON'T HAVE ALL OF THE SAME THINGS EVERY YEAR, SO IT ADDS MULTIPLE LINES FOR WHAT YOU HAD AND WHAT YOU DIDN'T, AND IT JUST WAS NOT READABLE. 
          AND SO IT'S JUST REALLY UNUSER-FRIENDLY. 
          SO WHAT WE WERE TRYING TO DO WAS JUST TO MAKE IT AS SIMPLE AS POSSIBLE. 
          IS THIS WHAT'S IN HERE? WE CAN TRY TO DO OUR BEST. 
          IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS, ESPECIALLY IF YOU'RE ASKING ABOUT SOME OF THESE THINGS, YOU KNOW, WITH OUR EXPERTS IN HERE NOW, THEY CAN SAY THIS WAS HERE, THIS WASN'T HERE. 
          BUT IT DEFINITELY WAS NOT A USER-FRIENDLY WAY TO LOOK AT IT. 
          I'M NOT EVEN SURE IF IT WAS PHYSICALLY ABLE TO BE DONE. 
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ALL OF IT'S MANUALLY HANDED. 
          YEAH. 
          SO TRYING TO BE SENSITIVE TO THE FACT THAT WE HAVE PEOPLE LISTENING. 
          WE CAN'T HEAR HIM. 
          I CAN HEAR HIM. 
          AND SO IF WE CAN UP HERE, LET'S TRY TO ANSWER THOSE QUESTIONS. 
          AND I DON'T KNOW AT THE MOMENT IS A GOOD ANSWER THAT WE CAN GET YOU THE INFORMATION. 
          YEAH. 
          I WOULD LIKE TO BOUNCE BACK, MR. HAMPTON, TO YOUR INQUIRY A FEW MINUTES AGO. 
          MR. RICKENSBURG JUST PROVIDED AN EXCELLENT EXAMPLE. 
          WE CONSULT WITH MAVE ON CYBERSECURITY. 
          IT'S ANOTHER ONE OF THOSE SERVICES THAT THEY PROVIDE FOR OUR LEA SO THAT WE'RE ABLE TO MAKE SURE. 
          THAT WE'RE IN COMPLIANCE WITH WHERE WE NEED TO BE. 
          AND THOSE ARE KIND OF HIDDEN WITHIN. 
          AS YOU SAID, THEY'RE DISPERSED THROUGHOUT THE DOCUMENT. 
          THOSE SERVICES ARE ALSO DISPERSED THROUGHOUT OUR ORGANIZATION. 
          TOP OF PAGE 29. 
          UNDER 0361, YOU'LL SEE THAT WE HAVE ELECTED TO REDUCE BY AN ADMINISTRATIVE PRESENTER, AND WE'VE REDUCED THE MEEC MEMBERSHIP BY $1,000. 
          ANY QUESTIONS? I'M GOING TO TURN IT OVER TO DR. HAMMER. 
          GOOD MORNING. 
          WHAT YOU'LL START TO SEE IN THIS CATEGORY 02 IS INSTRUCTION, AND WE GET TO A RATHER GRANULAR LEVEL. 
          YOU'LL START TO SEE SOME OF THE REFRESHES THAT OUR TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT IS PROPOSING COMING INTO NEXT YEAR'S BUDGET FOR EQUIPMENT, ET CETERA. 
          SO STARTING OFF IN THIS FIRST AREA, YOU'LL SEE A PROPOSAL FOR A BIT OF A REDUCTION IN THE SCHOOL ADMINISTRATIVE LAPTOP. 
          THEY WILL STILL BE REPLACED, BUT THERE IS A REDUCTION IN THAT AREA. 
          THE NEXT AREA FOR TELEPHONES HERE, IF YOU RECALL, WE MOVED TO ZOOM PHONE, AND THERE WAS NO CHARGE FOR US IN THE FY26 BUDGET, BUT THAT HAS MOVED INTO THIS BUDGET, WHICH IS CONTRIBUTING TO THE INCREASE THAT YOU SEE ABOVE. 
          ANY QUESTIONS IN THAT FIRST AREA? DR. HAMBURG, CAN I INTERRUPT? I'D LIKE TO HAVE MR. RICKENSRUD JUST EXPLAIN, BECAUSE IF YOU'VE LOOKED CLOSELY ALREADY AT THIS, YOU'LL SEE THE TERM REFRESH COMES UP CONTINUALLY, AND I'D JUST LIKE TO HAVE MR. RICKENSRUD EXPLAIN HOW HE APPROACHES THAT ISSUE AND WHAT WE TRY TO DO, BECAUSE INEVITABLY THIS COMES UP EVERY YEAR IN TERMS OF WHAT WE CAN AND CANNOT DO AS IT RELATES TO REFRESHING OUR TECHNOLOGY. 
          KYLE? SO CHROMEBOOKS TYPICALLY HAVE LIKE A SIX-YEAR END OF LIFE, AND IF ANYBODY'S WORKED ON A CHROMEBOOK AFTER FOUR YEARS, YOU'RE ABOUT DONE WITH IT, RIGHT? BUT WE EXTEND THEM OUT AT THE STUDENT LEVEL AND MAXIMIZE THAT TIMELINE. 
          NOW, PART OF THAT SIX-YEAR CYCLE, YES, WE KNOW IT'S KIND OF A CONSUMABLE DEVICE, BUT GOOGLE KIND OF SAYS THEY CAN'T HANDLE ANY MORE. 
          OPERATING SYSTEM UPDATES, SO AFTER SIX YEARS, THEY'RE DONE. 
          AS FAR AS EQUIPMENT GOES, WHEN IT COMES TO TEACHER LAPTOPS, ADMINISTRATOR LAPTOPS, AND THE EQUIPMENT THAT WE PROVIDE OUR OFFICE STAFF, WE RUN AROUND A FOUR- OR FIVE-YEAR CYCLE AS WELL, AND TYPICALLY WHAT HAPPENS, OR UNFORTUNATELY WHAT HAPPENS, IS THAT OUR REFRESH DOLLARS EXCEEDS THE AMOUNT THAT WE CAN AFFORD, AND SO JUST LIKE WHEN WE TALK ABOUT DEFERRED MAINTENANCE, WE'RE CONTINUALLY PUSHING THINGS BACK AND THEN TAKING OUR LOWEST, YOU KNOW, THE ONES THAT ARE THE OLDEST AND REPLACING THEM AT THAT POINT IN TIME, AND SO USUALLY THAT'S THE CHALLENGE THAT WE FACE, BUT WE TRY TO REPLACE LAPTOPS ABOUT A FIVE-YEAR CYCLE AND CHROMEBOOKS ABOUT A SIX-YEAR CYCLE. 
          PRESENTERS WE HAVE LIKE AN EIGHT-YEAR CYCLE. 
          THEY REALLY NEED AN EARLIER CYCLE, AND SMART BOARDS ON A 10-YEAR CYCLE, BALLPARK-ISH, WE STILL HAVE SMART BOARDS THAT WE BOUGHT IN 2010, 2011. 
          SO LIKE MOST OF OUR EQUIPMENT IS EXTENDED BEYOND OUR CYCLE THAT WE WANT TO DO. 
          WE JUST DO WHAT WE CAN AFFORD TO DO. 
          AND ONE LITTLE LAST COMMENT. 
          ONE OF THE THINGS YOU SEE IS MANY OF THE THINGS THAT WE'RE DOING ARE JUST MAINTAINING WHAT WE ALREADY HAVE. 
          THERE ISN'T A LOT OF EXPANSION HERE IN OUR BUDGET LINES BECAUSE, AGAIN, WE NEED TO SUPPORT WHAT WE ALREADY HAVE INSTALLED AND IN PLACE. 
          OKAY, MOVING ON TO SALARIES AND WAGES. 
          WHAT YOU'LL SEE IN THIS NEXT SECTION ARE OUR TEST SUPPORT. 
          OUR TESTS ARE OUR TECHNOLOGY USAGE SUPPORT TEAMS. SO THOSE ARE STAFF MEMBERS IN EACH BUILDING THAT LIAISE AND PROVIDE SUPPORT 
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IN THE BUILDINGS, TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE, ET CETERA, ON TECHNOLOGY ISSUES. 
          YES, GO AHEAD. 
          SORRY, I JUST WANTED TO INTERJECT THAT ANYTHING THAT YOU SEE IN THIS REPORT THAT'S SALARIES AND FIXED CHARGES UNTIL WE GET TO THE END, THESE ARE HOURLY THINGS, WHETHER IT'S CURRICULUM WRITING, WORKSHOP TIME, HOURLY STAFF. 
          NONE OF THESE ARE FTES, FULL-TIME EMPLOYEES. 
          THOSE ARE ALL AT THE END. 
          THANK YOU. 
          AS WE SCROLL DOWN TO THE NEXT AREA, THIS IS WHERE YOU'RE GOING TO SEE A LOT OF THE TECHNOLOGY EQUIPMENT THAT MR. RICKENSRUD HAS BEEN SPEAKING ABOUT. 
          YOU'LL SEE WHITEBOARDS, FLAT PANELS. 
          THEY'RE LOOKING TO MAKE A REDUCTION. 
          IN THOSE AREAS, BUT WE STILL HAVE MANY THAT DO NEED TO BE REPLACED, YOU GET TO A RATHER GRANULAR LEVEL WHERE YOU'RE TAKING A LOOK AT SPECIFIC EQUIPMENT THAT IS BEING REQUESTED AND THE COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH ALL OF THOSE ALL THE WAY THROUGH. 
          ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS IN THIS SECTION? I HAVE A QUESTION. 
          MR. RICKENSRUD, SO I SEE THAT IT IS CHROMEBOOKS, SO TEACHER LAPTOPS, THEY ARE NOT CHROMEBOOKS. 
          THEY'RE LAPTOPS. 
          CORRECT. 
          OKAY. 
          THANK YOU. 
          SO THE CHROMEBOOKS ARE ESSENTIALLY STUDENT CHROMEBOOKS? CORRECT. 
          THEY'RE STUDENT CHROMEBOOKS, YES. 
          AND YOU CAN SEE THE LINE FOR THAT IS CLOSE TO A MILLION DOLLARS. 
          GO AHEAD. 
          I WAS JUST GOING TO SAY THAT IF THE REVENUES CAME IN AS PRESENTED. 
          AS DESIRED. 
          PERFECT WORLD. 
          $298 MILLION. 
          YOU'RE CONFIDENT THAT THE REQUEST FOR THE TECHNOLOGY REFRESH STUFF WOULD SUPPORT EVERYTHING THAT'S NEEDED, RIGHT? IT WOULD. 
          BASED ON OUR PLAN, YES. 
          I MEAN, IT WOULD COVER WHAT WE HAVE IN OUR PLAN. 
          ARE THERE MORE NEEDS? YES. 
          RIGHT. 
          AND THAT'S WHAT WAS SHOWN LAST WEEK. 
          EVER SINCE I'VE KNOWN HIM. 
          JEFF KNOWS IT LIKE THE BACK OF HIS HAND. 
          RIGHT. 
          RIGHT. 
          YOU KNOW, BUT… WE CAN ALWAYS ADD. 
          TRUST ME. 
          I MEAN, I WAS GOING TO SAY BECAUSE THE TECHNOLOGY AFFECTS STUDENT INSTRUCTION. 
          AND WHEN YOU START TO GET TO POINTS WHERE YOU DON'T HAVE SMART BOARDS WORKING AND TEACHER LAPTOPS WORKING, I GUESS IN AN EMERGENCY SITUATION, AND OBVIOUSLY, IT WOULD NEED TO BE FIXED ASAP. 
          LIKE, WHAT IS THE TIMEFRAME IF SOMETHING BREAKS TO GET A NEW ONE IN A CLASSROOM? DEPENDING ON THE REPAIR CYCLE AND WHAT THE ISSUE IS, WE DO HANG ON TO OLDER LAPTOPS TO USE AS LOANERS AS A STOPGAP UNTIL THE OTHER ONES GO. 
          BUT THOSE LOANERS ARE OLD, RIGHT? BUT WE KEEP THEM AROUND JUST AS THAT GAP MEASURE WHILE THE OTHER ONES GET FIXED. 
          AND SOMETIMES THE TURNAROUND TIME CAN BE ABOUT THREE WEEKS. 
          AND WE HAVE THAT. 
          THEY'RE UNDER WARRANTY, AND WE GO THROUGH THAT SERVICE ASPECT. 
          OKAY, OUR NEXT SECTION IS INSTRUCTION OTHER COSTS. 
          YOU'LL START TO SEE SOME CONTRACTED SERVICES. 
          IN SOFTWARE LICENSES IN THIS AREA, THERE IS AN INCREASE OF APPROXIMATELY $50,000 IN THIS AREA. 
          AS WE GO TO THE SOFTWARE, ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT WHAT THESE SPECIFIC SOFTWARE PACKAGES MAY DO FOR OUR SYSTEM? BECAUSE WE ARE HAPPY TO ANSWER THOSE QUESTIONS FOR YOU. 
          WELL, IF YOU'RE CURIOUS LATER, JUST LET US KNOW. 
          OKAY. 
          AS WE MOVE DOWN HERE, WE GET INTO SOME OF THE DEPARTMENTS, INCLUDING SPECIAL EDUCATION, STUDENT PERSONNEL SERVICES, HEALTH SERVICES, STUDENT TRANSPORTATION. 
          THESE ARE ALL LAPTOP REFRESHES THAT YOU'LL SEE. 
          AND JOE'S MOVING OVER TO OPERATION OF PLANT. 
          UNDER OPERATION OF PLANT, YOU WILL SEE THERE A REDUCTION OUR TECHNOLOGY SUMMER WORKERS, EACH YEAR WE EMPLOY HOURLY SUMMER WORKERS TO COME IN AND SUPPORT OUR FTE TECHNOLOGY TECHNICIANS TO BE ABLE TO GO OUT AND WORK IN OUR SCHOOLS AND IN OUR DEPARTMENTS TO SUPPORT TECHNOLOGY REFRESH AND WHATNOT. 
          ALSO, DOWN AT THE BOTTOM, REDUCTION IN IPAD PROJECTOR REPAIRS. 
          AND THEN MAINTENANCE OF PLANT AND CAPITAL OUTLAY REFRESH FOR LAPTOPS AND DESKTOPS THERE. 
          THAT IS TECHNOLOGY. 
          WE'D LIKE TO MOVE INTO THE NEXT DEPARTMENT, AND WE'RE STARTING TO HEAD INTO THE DIVISION OF EDUCATION SERVICES AT THIS TIME. 
          SO THE FIRST DEPARTMENT WE'RE GOING TO HIGHLIGHT IS ASSESSMENT AND ACCOUNTABILITY. 
          WE SEE A SLIGHT INCREASE IN ASSESSMENT AND ACCOUNTABILITY UNDER CONTRACTED SERVICES. 
          YOU CAN SEE HERE THESE ARE THE DIFFERENT SERVICES THAT ARE CONTRACTED TO PROVIDE SUPPORT. 
          COGAT IS AN ASSESSMENT SYSTEM THAT WE USE IN THE IDENTIFICATION OF GIFTED AND TALENTED STUDENTS. 
          YOU'LL SEE THE COLLEGE BOARD SAT COSTS ARE THERE AS WELL AS NWEA, WHICH IS OUR SCREENING SYSTEM FOR MTSS PROCESSES. 
          YOU ALSO SEE A POWER SCHOOL END-OF-COURSE CONVERSION COST. 
          THAT IS AN ADD-ON TO OUR POWER SCHOOL SYSTEM TO HELP 
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WITH SOME STATE REQUIREMENTS FOR END-OF-COURSE ASSESSMENTS. 
          YOU ALSO SEE A BRIEF, AN ASSESSMENT GROUP, MARYLAND ASSESSMENT GROUP, WHICH IS MAG. 
          THAT IS A CONFERENCE EXPENSE IN THE AMOUNT OF $850. 
          QUESTIONS ON ASSESSMENT AND ACCOUNTABILITY? WE'RE NOW MOVING TO THE TOP OF PAGE 31. 
          YOU'LL SEE THERE IT STARTS WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF SAFE SCHOOLS. 
          IN THIS AREA, THERE IS A DECREASE OVERALL IN THE BUDGET FROM LAST YEAR. 
          YOU'LL SEE EVERYTHING IN HERE, BUT FROM SOME OF THE CONTRACTED SERVICE WE HAVE AND SOFTWARE WE HAVE, INCLUDING SMARTPASS THAT I'LL HIGHLIGHT FOR YOU, RAPTOR SYSTEM, THE NAVIGATE 360 SYSTEM. 
          BUT MR. RAUSCH HAS RECOMMENDED REDUCING THE REPLACEMENT RADIOS AND BATTERIES IN OUR SCHOOLS THAT HELP WITH COMMUNICATION. 
          QUESTIONS ON SAFE SCHOOLS? THE NEXT AREA IS A RATHER LOW- YES, GO AHEAD. 
          IS CAMERAS THE CAMERA MONITORING IN THE HALLWAYS, THAT'S PART OF SAFE SCHOOLS. 
          HI. 
          OR DOES THAT SHOW UP SOMEWHERE ELSE? SOMEWHERE ELSE. 
          WHAT WAS THE QUESTION? WHERE'S THE COST FOR THE CAMERA REPLACEMENTS? DO WE HAVE ANY IN THIS FOR THIS BUDGET? DO WE? NO, WE DON'T HAVE ANY CAMERA REPLACEMENTS FOR THIS BUDGET. 
          I JUST KNOW THAT THERE HAS BEEN COMMENTS MADE THAT IT WOULD BE NICE TO HAVE MORE. 
          OBVIOUSLY, IN THIS ENVIRONMENT, IT'S GOING TO BE TOUGH, BUT JUST THROWING IT OUT THERE. 
          THANK YOU. 
          NEXT AREA IS THE DIVISION OF EDUCATION SERVICES, WHICH IS AN EXTENSIVE BUDGET. 
          THAT CARRIES A LOT OF OUR SUPPORT. 
          STARTING WITH, YOU'LL SEE A LARGE BUDGET FOR GENERAL ASSISTANCE. 
          THOSE HOURS ARE DEPLOYED AMONG OUR SCHOOLS TO PROVIDE GENERAL ASSISTANCE SUPPORT. 
          YOU'LL SEE A LINE FOR SUBSTITUTE SECRETARY. 
          IF THERE IS A SITUATION WHERE A SECRETARY IS OUT FOR AN EXTENDED PERIOD OF TIME, WE NEED A LINE THERE TO SUPPORT THOSE SCHOOLS. 
          DEAF INTERPRETING, YOU WILL SEE. 
          DIPLOMA COVERS, ECA COVERS, ET CETERA. 
          THERE'S COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH THAT WE HAVE BUDGETED FOR. 
          AND HERE'S SOME MEMBERSHIPS THAT ARE NEGOTIATED AS PART OF THE NEGOTIATED AGREEMENT. 
          SO THAT IS SOMETHING WE ARE REQUIRED TO DO WITH OUR ADMINISTRATORS IN THE SYSTEM. 
          YOU'LL SEE HERE, THIS IS SALARIES AND WAGES. 
          AND ONE OF THE BIGGEST AREAS THAT YOU'LL SEE AS WE MOVE DOWN INTO THE BUDGET. 
          IT'S A HUGE INCREASE IN THE AREA OF CERTIFICATION STIPEND. 
          AND THAT IS DUE TO THE NATIONAL BOARD CERTIFICATION, NATIONAL BOARD CERTIFICATION. 
          WE HAVE 28 NEW TEACHERS AND BRINGING OUR DISTRICT TO 152 NATIONAL BOARD CERTIFIED TEACHERS, WHICH YOU CAN SEE THEY'RE DEPLOYED TO EITHER LOW-PERFORMING SCHOOLS OR THIS MOC IS MAINTENANCE OF CERTIFICATES. 
          THIS IS A NATIONAL BOARD TEACHER WHO HAS THEN GONE BACK TO MAINTAIN THEIR CERTIFICATE AND MAINTAIN THAT CERTIFICATE. 
          SO, LET'S SEE. 
          WE HAVE PULLED BACK SOME OF THE REGISTRATION AT THE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT CONFERENCES THAT WE HAVE HAD IN OUR BUDGET PREVIOUSLY. 
          AS WE MOVE OVER, I'M SORRY, TO PAGE 32. 
          YOU'LL SEE THIS IS WHERE SUBSTITUTES STARTED TO COME INTO PLAY WITH US. 
          AND YOU DO SEE A LITTLE BIT OF TECHNOLOGY ITEMS HERE THAT ARE IN TERMS OF THE NEXT DEPARTMENT, WHICH IS CAREER AND TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION. 
          OKAY, SO YOU DO SEE SOME SERVICES THAT ARE COMING INTO THIS AREA. 
          AS YOU SCROLL DOWN A LITTLE BIT, THERE'S SOME ADDITIONAL STIPENDS THAT ARE PAID FOR PLANT AND ANIMAL CARE AT CCST OVER THE SUMMER, IF NEEDED. 
          AND MAYBE EVEN WHEN IT'S SNOWING AND SOMEBODY NEEDS TO GO TAKE CARE OF THE ANIMALS AND PLANTS. 
          ANY QUESTIONS? THERE'S SOME CERTIFICATIONS, ET CETERA, IN THAT AREA. 
          ANY QUESTIONS IN CAREER AND TECHNOLOGY PROGRAMMING? JUMP DOWN AT YOU. 
          ON SUBS, I KNOW ONE OF THE PRINCIPALS I SPOKE WITH HAS HAD CHALLENGES WITH SUBSTITUTES FOR PARAPROFESSIONALS. I DON'T HAVE AN ANSWER. THE PRINCIPAL DIDN'T REALLY HAVE AN ANSWER. THE SUBSTITUTE TEACHER SEEMS TO BE EASIER TO GET THAN YOUR SUBSTITUTE TEACHER. YOU GET CALLED, OH, OKAY, I KNOW I'M GOING TO WORK AT THIRD GRADE CLASS TODAY OR MATH CLASS IN MIDDLE SCHOOL, WHATEVER. I KNOW THAT. 
          PARAPROFESSIONAL, THE THOUGHT WAS YOU DON'T REALLY KNOW WHAT YOU'RE GETTING INTO. YOU COULD BE HELPING A THIRD GRADE CLASS. 
          YOU COULD BE ONE-ON-ONE WITH A STUDENT. THAT'S GOING TO BE HARD WITH THAT STUDENT, 
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TOO. I DON'T KNOW IF THERE'S ANY THOUGHTS ON HOW THAT CAN BE EASIER TO- OBTAIN PARAPROFESSIONAL SUBSTITUTES. 
          WELL, I WILL COMPLETELY AGREE WITH WHAT YOU'RE SAYING. 
          IN OPERATION, IT BECOMES VERY CHALLENGING, AND OUR PRIORITIES WITH THE LIMITED SUB-POOL IS TO MAKE SURE THAT STUDENTS ARE COVERED IN CLASSROOMS. AND OFTENTIMES, THE OPPORTUNITY COST OF THAT IS THAT OUR PARAPROFESSIONAL SUBSTITUTES ARE NOT COVERED. 
          SO WE CONTINUE TO RECRUIT PARAPROFESSIONALS. 
          WE RECRUIT IN COMMUNITIES.WE RECRUIT DISTRICT-WIDE FOR SUBSTITUTES ALL ACROSS THE DISTRICT.SO I WISH WE HAD A DEEPER POOL TO PULL FROM. UNFORTUNATELY, WE DON'T, BUT WE CONTINUE TO DO THAT WORK. CAN I ASK A GENERAL QUESTION? NATIONAL BOARD CERTIFICATIONS IS A BLUEPRINT REQUIREMENT? BUT THIS IS ONE OF THOSE ONES YOU TALKED ABOUT, DR. LAWSON, WHERE IT'S A REQUIREMENT, BUT IT COMES OUT OF FOUNDATION MONEY. SO WE? THE MORE WE GET, I HATE TO EVEN SAY IT THIS WAY, IT SOUNDS HORRIBLE, THE MORE IT HURTS US. IT DOESN'T SHOW UP IN THE AREAS WHERE YOU THINK YOU MIGHT HAVE THE BIGGEST NEED. OKAY. YEAH. 
          MS. OLSON, IF YOU COULD SCROLL DOWN, OUR NEXT AREA THAT IS BUDGETED IS OUR BLENDED VIRTUAL PROGRAM. WE DO HAVE SOME FUNDS SET ASIDE IN THIS PROGRAM, BUT THEY DO HAVE A YEAR-OVER-YEAR DECLINE OF $28,000 IN THEIR BUDGET. AS THEY'VE TRIED TO SLIDE BACK SOME OF THE SERVICES. ANY QUESTIONS ON BVP? WE MOVE ON TO PAGE 33. 
          WE ARE ENTERING INTO OUR SPECIAL EDUCATION ROLL-UP. 
          WHAT YOU'LL SEE IN THIS AREA IS A DECLINE OF $171,000. THERE ARE SEVERAL LINES HERE IN THE CONTRACTED SERVICES, AND ONE THING I'D LIKE TO POINT OUT TO EVERYONE HERE, THIS IS ONE OF THESE MOVES THAT MS. SOPA WAS ADDRESSING. OUR HIGH ROAD IN-DISTRICT CLASSROOM AT RISING SUN HIGH SCHOOL WAS ORIGINALLY IN OUR SPECIAL EDUCATION LINE, BUT WE HAVE MOVED IT OVER TO OUR STUDENT SERVICES LINE. 
          BECAUSE THAT IDC DOES SUPPORT NOT ONLY STUDENTS WITH SPECIAL NEEDS, BUT STUDENTS WITHOUT SPECIAL NEEDS. SO WE WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT WAS REFLECTED IN THE APPROPRIATE ACCOUNT. SO THAT HAS BEEN MOVED OVER. 
          YOU'LL SEE SOME SOFTWARE PACKAGES FOR SPECIAL EDUCATION. 
          AT THE BOTTOM, I'D LIKE TO POINT OUT ALSO CPI TRAINING, WHICH IS HELPING OUR STUDENTS WHO ARE IN PHYSICAL NEED IN A LOT OF WAYS. QUESTIONS ABOUT SPECIAL EDUCATION? NEXT AREA IS NON-PUBLIC PROGRAMMING THAT YOU'LL SEE. AND WHAT I WILL REMIND YOU OF WHAT WE TALKED ABOUT LAST WEEK AT THE WORK SESSION, WE HAVE MORE STUDENTS WHO REQUIRE NON-PUBLIC PLACEMENT. WE HAVE THE COST PER STUDENT INCREASING. AND THE THIRD INCREASE THAT YOU'LL SEE IS THE SHARE OF THE COST FOR THE STUDENTS WHO ARE NON-PUBLIC. 
          THAT IS MOVING TO A 50-50% SHARE THIS YEAR FROM THE STATE DEPARTMENT. IT USED TO BE A 60-40 OR 70-30, BECKY. DR. MILLER. IT WAS A 70-30 SPLIT FOR THE STATE VERSUS LOCAL. IT IS NOW AT A 50-50 SPLIT. SO THOSE THREE THINGS HAVE SHOWN AN INCREASE. AND IT'S NOT 50-50 OF THE TOTAL, IF I'M CORRECT. 
          THERE'S A SET AMOUNT, AND IT'S ANYTHING OVER. THE SET AMOUNT IS HOW THE SPLIT HAPPENS. SO IT'S JUST AMOUNT FOR A PLACEMENT, AND ANYTHING OVER STARTING IN 27 WILL BE 50-50, THE STATE AND US, FOR THAT COST. SO THIS IS A SIGNIFICANT INCREASE OF $1 MILLION JUST IN NON-PUBLIC PLACEMENTS. YOU CAN SEE THE NUMBER OF STUDENTS THAT ARE IMPACTED IN THOSE PLACEMENTS, BUT WE ARE RECOMMENDING TO CUT BACK ABOUT $500,000 BASED ON A REVIEW OF OUR ACTUALS. SO, LIKE I SAID, WE ARE LOOKING TO SLIDE BACK JUST SLIGHTLY BASED ON THE ACTUALS, AND WE THINK WE'LL BE SAFE WITH THE BUDGET WE ARE PROPOSING. 
          QUICK QUESTION ABOUT THAT. SO IF SOMEBODY MEETS THE REQUIREMENTS FOR PLACEMENT, THEY'RE PLACED, REGARDLESS OF BUDGET, THEN WE JUST HAVE TO FIGURE IT OUT AT THAT POINT? THAT'S CORRECT. 
          THERE IS JUST TO MAKE SURE THERE'S NO HOLDING SOMEBODY BACK FROM PLACEMENT BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE BUDGET FOR IT. WE TRY TO MAKE THOSE DECISIONS. 
          WE MAKE ALL OF THOSE DECISIONS IN OUR IEP MEETINGS. WE TRY TO DO WHAT'S APPROPRIATE FOR THE STUDENT WITH THE NEEDS THAT ARE BEING PRESENTED. I MEAN, THE LEGAL ANSWER 
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TO YOUR QUESTION IS NO. WE'RE COMMITTED AND OBLIGATED TO PROVIDE THE SUPPORTS THAT ARE ARTICULATED WITHIN A STUDENT'S IEP. AND IF THAT INCLUDES NON-PUBLIC, THEN SO BE IT. NOW, DO WE TRY TO MANAGE THAT AS A FISCAL ISSUE? WE CERTAINLY DO. 
          BUT GENERALLY SPEAKING, IF IT'S THE RECOMMENDATION OF THE IEP TEAM, IT'S HAPPENING. 
          BUT IF WHAT YOU'RE GETTING AT, AND IT'S POSSIBLE, IS THAT... 
          IS THERE AN EFFORT TO NOT PUT STUDENTS WHERE THEY BELONG SO WE CAN SAVE MONEY? NO. AND IF YOU LOOK AT THESE DOLLAR VALUES, YOU'LL SEE WE SPEND A LOT OF MONEY DOING THIS. SO CLEARLY, YOU KNOW, THESE SERVICES ARE BEING USED. 
          YEAH, THAT WAS PART OF WHERE I WAS GETTING AT, BUT MORE SO LIKE... WE HEAR THAT SOMETIMES. YEAH, WE HAVE HEARD THAT SOMETIMES. AND MORE SO, IT'S ALSO JUST SOMETHING THAT'S HARD TO CONTROL. LIKE, IT'S NOT, THIS IS NOT SOMEWHERE WE CAN... 
          CUT COSTS, SOMETHING THAT WE CAN OVERMANAGE. AND WILDLY EXPENSIVE. IT'S WILDLY EXPENSIVE, YEAH. I MEAN, UPWARDS OF $30,000 PER CHILD, MORE THAN THAT, SOMETIMES. 
          THANK YOU. WELL, AND TO SPEAK TO THAT, IT'S A MOVING TARGET. IT'S CONSTANTLY CHANGING. AND SO IT MAKES IT VERY CHALLENGING TO BUDGET FOR THIS, SO WE HAVE TO JUST ADDRESS THE NEEDS THAT ARE BEING PRESENTED TO US AT ANY GIVEN TIME. IT'S A LITTLE BIT LIKE LEGAL FEES OR HEALTH CARE COSTS. YOU HAVE AN IDEA WHERE IT'S GOING TO LAND, AND YOU TRY TO PROJECT. YOU KNOW, THERE MIGHT BE A 4%, 5% INCREASE. 
          BUT YOU DON'T KNOW UNTIL SOMETHING HAPPENS. YOU GET ONE WILD CASE IN THE NON-PUBLIC, IT COULD COST YOU, SOME CHILDREN NEED A ONE-ON-ONE MEDICAL SUPPORT, THEY NEED TRANSPORTATION TO AN ATTICA COUNTY FACILITY, AND SO IT GETS CRAZY EXPENSIVE. 
          THE NEXT CATEGORY YOU WILL SEE IS PSYCHOLOGY, PSYCHOLOGICAL SERVICES. 
          IN THIS AREA, THERE IS A SLIGHT INCREASE THAT YOU WILL SEE. 
          IN CONTRACTED SERVICES, SO THERE IS A NATIONWIDE SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGIST SHORTAGE. SO SOMETIMES THESE POSITIONS, NOT ONLY FOR SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGISTS, BUT RELATED SERVICE PROVIDERS, ARE CONTRACTED, AND THAT ALLOWS US TO PROVIDE ACCESS TO SERVICES FROM THOSE HARD-TO-FIND FTES, BUT THEY ARE PRICEY. THEY ARE EXPENSIVE. SO THIS IS THE FIRST AREA THAT YOU'LL SEE THAT WE HAVE CONTRACTED WITH PORTIONS OF SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGISTS. 
          TO HELP US WITH THE CASELOAD AND ASSESSMENTS OF STUDENT NEEDS AS THEY'RE ENTERING OUR DISTRICT AND MOVING THROUGH OUR DISTRICT. OKAY. 
          ANY QUESTIONS ON PSYCHOLOGICAL SERVICES? THE NEXT AREA IN SPECIAL EDUCATION ARE RELATED SERVICES. THE NEXT DEPARTMENT, 40, 30, 330. 
          YOU'LL SEE, THIS IS JUST WHAT I WAS SPEAKING TO. SO THIS BREAKS IT DOWN INTO... SOME OF THE CONTRACTED SERVICES THAT SHOWED DUE A SIGNIFICANT INCREASE. 
          BECAUSE MANY OF THE COMPANIES THAT WE CONTRACT WITH ARE INCREASING THE CHARGES THAT THEY'RE MAKING TO US. AND SO THESE NEEDS ARE THERE BECAUSE THE STUDENT NEEDS ARE BEING PRESENTED, AND WE'VE GOT TO BE ABLE TO PROVIDE THE SERVICES FOR THEM THAT THESE POSITIONS WILL PROVIDE. S.LP IS A SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGIST. 
          O.T IS AN OCCUPATIONAL THERAPIST. YOU'LL SEE A PHYSICAL, NO, ONE PHYSICAL THERAPIST IN HERE. QUESTIONS ABOUT ANY OF THESE IN THIS RELATED SERVICE PROVIDER LINE? COSTS ARE GOING UP, THE COST OF DOING BUSINESS, ESSENTIALLY. DR. HAMMER, A QUICK QUESTION ON THAT. SO IS THAT ALSO BASED ON THE NUMBER OF STUDENTS THAT FALL INTO THAT CATEGORY? ARE WE AT AN INCREASE IN THAT AS WELL? THAT'S CORRECT. I HAVE SOME BUDGET. 
          GOOD NEWS. WE'RE GOING TO MOVE TO INFANT AND TODDLER RIGHT NOW. WE, I KNOW EVERYBODY, JUST SOAK THIS IN FOR THIS MOMENT, PLEASE. WE, DR. MILLER HAD RECEIVED SOME INFORMATION FROM MSDE THAT THE CLIG WAS BEING CUT, WHICH WAS GOING TO REQUIRE US TO... I'M SORRY, THE CLIG? THE CLIG. COULD YOU GO AHEAD AND DEFINE THAT? DR. 
          MILLER WILL DEFINE IT. IT'S A LOCAL IMPLEMENTATION GRANT FOR SERVING INFANT AND TODDLER POPULATIONS. SO THE CLIG HAS BEEN REINSTATED. THANK YOU, DR. MILLER. SO THAT IS GOING TO GIVE US AN INCREASE OF $484,000. SO THAT MONEY THAT WE ORIGINALLY THOUGHT WE WERE GOING TO HAVE TO EXPEND WILL BE COVERED BY THIS GRANT FROM MSDE. SO THAT IS SOME GOOD NEWS FOR US. AND THAT WILL BE PAYING FOR THE POSITIONS FOR STUDENTS WHO'VE BEEN IDENTIFYING OR BEEN PRESENTING AS NEED BEFORE THEY ENTER SCHOOL. SO THAT'S PART OF OUR INFANT AND TODDLER PROGRAM. SERVICES ARE CONDUCTED IN THE HOME. NEXT AREA IS EARLY CHILDHOOD. THIS SPEAKS A LITTLE BIT TO THE PROPOSAL THAT MS. FEENEY, OUR COORDINATOR, MADE TO TRY TO EXPAND SOME SERVICES THAT WERE NOT THERE PREVIOUSLY. 
          BUT IN LOOKING AT THE WAY THAT OUR BUDGET IS FORMING, SHE HAS RECOMMENDED SEVERAL CUTS. SO YOU'LL SEE A LOT 
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OF RED LINE HERE. SHE HAD PROPOSED HAVING A JUMP START PROGRAM FOR OUR PRE-K AND K FAMILIES SO THAT STUDENTS COULD COME INTO SCHOOL BEFORE SCHOOL STARTED. AND UNDERSTAND AND ORIENT TO THE CLASSROOM ENVIRONMENT BEFORE ACTUAL SCHOOL BEGAN THAT THOSE PROGRAMS WILL BE CUT. 
          SHE'S ALSO RECOMMEND SOME CUTS IN THE AREA OF CURRICULUM WRITING FOR BOTH PRE-K AND K, WHAT YOU WILL SEE WITH SEVERAL OF OUR CONTENT AREAS. THERE ARE SOME STANDARDS SHIFTING THAT ARE TAKING PLACE, SO THAT CURRICULUM WRITING AND SHIFTING OF THAT TO ADDRESS THE STANDARD SHIFT IS REALLY AN IMPORTANT THING. SO I'LL POINT ALL OF THOSE OUT TO YOU AS WE GO. 
          OKAY, I'M SORRY, DR. NAMBY. 
          YES, SIR. I WAS WRITING AND LISTENING AND NOT LOOKING AT THE SCREEN, BUT WHAT LINE ITEMS WILL BE WITH THE INFANTS AND TODDLERS WILL BE COVERED BY THE CLIG? YOU SAID, BECAUSE THERE WERE SOME THAT ARE. ALL OF IT. IT'S COVERED. THE REDS WILL BE COVERED. SEE THOSE TWO THAT ARE CUT? SO THE 483,000. OKAY. 
          THANK YOU. YES, SURE. AS WE'RE LOOKING AT. EARLY CHILDHOOD, ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS? WE HAVE SOME MATERIALS AND SUPPLIES HERE IN TERMS OF STARTUP CLASSES, IF WE WERE TO HAVE A NEW KINDERGARTEN DUE TO ENROLLMENT. BECAUSE, AGAIN, THIS IS ALSO A MOVING TARGET. 
          YOU NEVER KNOW HOW MANY STUDENTS ARE GOING TO BE ENROLLING IN KINDERGARTEN OR PRE-K. SO WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'LL ADDRESS, IN CASE THAT WE HAVE TO OPEN A NEW CLASSROOM, THAT THERE IS A BUDGET THERE TO DO THAT. YOU'LL SEE AT THE BOTTOM HERE CDA. THAT IS A TRAINING COURSE. FOR OUR CHILD DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATES, WHICH IS ALSO A PART OF BLUEPRINT AND AN INVESTMENT IN TRAINING FOR OUR PARAPROFESSIONALS TO HAVE THAT ASSOCIATE'S DEGREE. 
          THAT IS ALIGNED THERE. ANY QUESTIONS AS WE ROLL THROUGH EARLY CHILDHOOD? OKAY, THE NEXT AREA IS STUDENT PERSONNEL SERVICES. THIS IS OUR STUDENT SERVICES DEPARTMENT, AND YOU'LL SEE A SIGNIFICANT INCREASE IN THIS AREA, WHICH IS $844,000. AND I WILL SAY THE MAJORITY OF IT IS CONCENTRATION OF POVERTY. SO YOU SEE COP THROUGHOUT THIS DEPARTMENT, AND THAT WILL ADDRESS THE EXPANSION, IF YOU RECALL FROM OUR PRESENTATION LAST WEEK, THE EXPANSION OF PER-PUPIL SERVICES AT PERRYVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AND ELKTON HIGH SCHOOL. SO THAT'S A GREAT PLACE TO, I THINK, HIGHLIGHT. WHEN WE GET AN INCREASE FROM THE STATE, IT'S BEING DIRECTED WITHOUT DISCRETION. PER SE, AND THAT INCREASE IN COP, I DON'T KNOW OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD, BUT IS BAKED INTO THAT 1.3 1.4 MILLION DOLLAR INCREASE. SO YES, HERE'S YOUR INCREASE, AND THIS IS WHERE IT HAS TO GO, AND SO NOTHING ELSE IS THE BENEFICIARY OF THAT INCREASE. I ALSO WANTED TO ADD THAT YOU SEE A LOT OF ESTIMATED PER PUPIL, COP PERSONNEL PER PUPIL. AND THAT'S BECAUSE THE SCHOOLS ACTUALLY HAVE TO WORK WITH DR. DERBY ON THEIR SPECIFIC BUDGETS. SO RIGHT NOW, THOSE ARE JUST PLACEHOLDERS THAT SORT OF MIRROR THE BUDGET FOR THIS YEAR. THOSE WILL GET A LITTLE MORE FINE-TUNED AS WE GO ALONG, BUT AGAIN, WE RECEIVED OUR REVENUE NUMBERS RIGHT AT THE LAST MINUTE BEFORE WE PRESENTED, AND IT'S USUALLY CLOSER TO THE SUMMERTIME WHEN THEY ACTUALLY LOOK AT WHAT IS REMAINING FROM COP FOR THE CURRENT YEAR. VERSUS WHAT THE NEW MONEY IS FOR THE UPCOMING YEAR. AND THEN REALLY SOLIDIFY THAT BUDGET. I KNOW OVER THE YEARS, WELL, FRANKLY, WHEN I CAME ON AS SUPERINTENDENT IN 2018, AN AWFUL LOT OF CONCERN AND VOICE. AS IT RELATES TO STUDENTS WITH SIGNIFICANT CHALLENGES. 
          WHETHER OR NOT THEY'RE STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES REALLY ISN'T THE POINT. THE POINT IS, WE'VE CREATED A SERIES OF IDC CLASSES, AND IF YOU SEE RIGHT SMACK IN THE MIDDLE, NINE SEATS ARE $296,000. SO WHEN WE DECIDE TO OPEN PROGRAMS LIKE THIS, IF YOU'RE IN THE COMMUNITY, HEARING FROM YOUR CONSTITUENTS THAT BEHAVIORS ARE THIS, BEHAVIORS ARE THAT, YOU KNOW. 
          WE HAVE CREATED A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT PROGRAMS TO SUPPORT THOSE STUDENTS, BUT KNOW THAT THEY CERTAINLY COME WITH A PRICE TAG. THOSE ARE THE MOST NOTABLE PIECES OF OUR STUDENT SERVICES BUDGET. 
          ANY QUESTIONS, ANYTHING JUMP OUT AT YOU THAT YOU'D LIKE TO HAVE CLARIFICATION? OKAY, OUR NEXT AREA IS HOME AND HOSPITAL INSTRUCTION. THEY HAD PROPOSED A SLIGHT INCREASE IN OUR HOME AND HOSPITAL OF $19,000. HOWEVER, THEY ARE PROPOSING SLIDE BACK OF ABOUT 10% OF OUR EDMENTUM PROGRAM. AND THIS HELPS TO SUPPORT THOSE STUDENTS WHO ARE UNABLE TO COME TO SCHOOL BECAUSE OF HEALTH NEEDS THAT THEY MAY HAVE. AND WE ARE REQUIRED TO PROVIDE SERVICES FOR THOSE STUDENTS IN THE HOME OR HOSPITAL. SO THAT'S HOW WE ARE PROPOSING. 
          BUT THEY'RE LOOKING TO CUT 
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ABOUT 10% OF THE ADMIN COSTS, WHICH IS AN ONLINE SUBSCRIPTION AND PROGRAMMING. AND IT FLIES UNDER THE RADAR TO A LOT OF LAY PEOPLE. 
          BUT THE LINE THERE, TOWARDS THE BOTTOM OF THE SCREEN, TWILIGHT. 
          THAT'S TYPICALLY A PROGRAM WHERE WE TRY TO USE IN LIEU OF SUSPENSION. OR, YOU KNOW, WAYS TO SERVE A STUDENT IN SUCH A WAY THAT DON'T DISRUPT A TYPICAL SCHOOL DAY. AND SO IT REALLY IS AN IMPORTANT LINE, ESPECIALLY FOR YOUR HIGH SCHOOLS. AND THAT FALLS IN OUR ALTERNATIVE EDUCATION LINEUP OR ROLL-UP CODE. SO WHAT WE ARE LOOKING TO DO, JUST TO TAKE SOME CUTS THERE, WE ARE SCALING BACK TWILIGHT BY 10%. SO, ANY QUESTIONS? QUESTIONS ABOUT HOME AND HOSPITAL OR ALTERNATIVE EDUCATION? WHAT DOES THAT MEAN, SCALING BACK BY 10%? WHAT DOES THAT LOOK LIKE? THE NUMBER OF HOURS THAT WE'LL BE ALLOWING SCHOOLS TO USE. EACH SCHOOL GETS AN ALLOTMENT OF HOURS, AND THEN, AS THEY NEED MORE, IF THEY HAVE EXTRA, DR. FOY WORKS WITH THE SCHOOLS TO KIND OF BALANCE IT OUT. IT'S HISTORICALLY, WE'RE CONFIDENT IN THAT NUMBER. I MEAN, THAT NUMBER'S HISTORICAL. THIS ISN'T A NEW THING WE'VE BEEN DOING. WE'VE BEEN DOING THIS NOW FOR A DECADE. AND SO WE KNOW KIND OF WHERE THESE NUMBERS ARE GOING TO LAND ON THAT. AND SOME OF THE PREVIOUS YEARS ARE A LITTLE DECEPTIVE BECAUSE SOME OF THAT HAD BEEN PAID OUT OF SOME FUNDS THAT WERE COMING IN THROUGH ESSER. SO JUST SO YOU'RE AWARE, IT'S A LITTLE DECEPTIVE THERE. 
          NEXT AREA IS STUDENT HEALTH SERVICES. AND WHAT YOU'LL SEE IN STUDENT HEALTH SERVICES IS A CUT IN A REDUCTION IN THEIR BUDGET FROM LAST YEAR. CONTRACTED SERVICES, WE DO HAVE SOME FUNDS THERE FOR A JUMPSTART NURSE. THAT SUPPORTS THAT PROGRAM FOR OUR MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS. CPR, RENEWAL, ETC. ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT STUDENT HEALTH SERVICES? SO THE REDUCTION IN THIS ROLL-UP IS BECAUSE, SPECIFICALLY IN FY 26, THERE ARE SOME AED REPLACEMENT RENEWALS THAT DO NOT SHOW UP IN THE BUDGET FOR NEXT YEAR. 
          SO THAT'S REALLY WHERE THE DECREASE IS COMING FROM. MEDIA PROGRAMS IS NEXT. YOU WILL SEE JUST A SLIGHT INCREASE IN MEDIA PROGRAMS, 7,700. 
          THERE ARE, MS. RICKENS-ROOD HAS LOOKED TO CUT BACK SOME CURRICULUM WRITING AND SOME OF THE MEDIA MEETINGS. 
          HOWEVER, HERE, A LOT OF THE COSTS ARE ASSOCIATED WITH SOFTWARE LICENSES THAT WE USE FOR RESEARCH AND CIRCULATION IN OUR MEDIA CENTERS, HOW WE ARE CIRCULATING OUR BOOKS THROUGH, AND ACCESS TO THOSE RESOURCES FOR RESEARCH FOR OUR STUDENTS. ANY QUESTIONS IN MEDIA PROGRAMS? OKAY, GUIDANCE SERVICES IS NEXT. AND IN GUIDANCE SERVICES, ONE THING I'D LIKE TO POINT OUT TO YOU IS THE SUSQUEHANNA WORKFORCE NETWORK. THIS IS WHERE SOME OF THESE FUNDS AND SOME OF THE INCREASE MAY COME FROM. 
          THE SWIN FUNDS ARE FROM THE FOUNDATION, AND IT'S BASED UPON OUR K-12 ENROLLMENT. 
          AND THAT'S HOW THAT... MONEY IS DETERMINED. ANY QUESTIONS? WE DO ALSO HAVE IN THIS LINE ITEM GRADE, REINSTATEMENT, ATTENDANCE AND RECOVERY. 
          THERE'S A LITTLE BIT OF TWILIGHT THERE FOR SCHOOL COUNSELORS, WHO ARE ALSO A PART OF OUR TWILIGHT PROGRAM. WE'VE LOOKED TO SCALE BACK JUST SLIGHTLY SOME OF THAT WORK. QUESTIONS ABOUT GUIDANCE SERVICES? OKAY, NEXT UP IS MATH ELEMENTARY. IF YOU'LL RECALL, WE ARE IN THE FINAL, YET NEXT YEAR WILL BE THE FINAL YEAR OF US. ONBOARDING FOUR MORE SCHOOLS TO OUR NEW MATH PROGRAM, ILLUSTRATIVE MATH, AND SO THOSE SCHOOLS WILL BE MOVING IN NEXT SCHOOL YEAR. DR. KUBIK HAS LOOKED TO DO SOME CURRICULUM WRITING. 
          THERE IS SOME RETOOLING, AGAIN, OF THE STANDARDS, AND SO WHEN THE STANDARDS ARE SHIFTING, WE HAVE TO SHIFT WITH IT, AND THAT REQUIRES US TO REVISE OUR CURRICULUM. THIS IS ANOTHER ONE OF THOSE EXAMPLES IN THE AREA OF MATHEMATICS, BOTH IN ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY, THAT YOU WILL SEE. YOU'LL SEE THERE'S SOME SUB-TIME FOR PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT, ESPECIALLY FOR THOSE NEW TEACHERS OR NON-CERTIFICATED TEACHERS WHO NEED TO UNDERSTAND THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE PROGRAMMING AND INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES TO SUPPORT THE NEEDS OF THE STUDENTS THEY'RE WORKING WITH. 
          WHAT YOU'LL SEE AT THE TOP OF PAGE 37, THERE'S ALSO SOME COLLABORATION WITH THE UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE TO HELP US WITH... ONBOARDING THOSE NEW STUDENTS AND PROVIDING THOSE NEW SCHOOLS AND PROVIDING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOR THOSE TEACHERS. SO IS THAT REALISTIC, THE CUTTING BACK ON CURRICULUM, WRITING AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT WHEN WE HAVE A NEW CURRICULUM? SAY NO, BUT WE ARE GOING TO HAVE TO WORK WITH THIS. ONE OF THE BIG AREAS YOU'LL SEE IN THIS ROLL-UP IS THE STUDENT LICENSES, K-5, AND THAT DOES PROVIDE ACCESS 
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TO THE STUDENT MATERIALS FOR OUR MATH PROGRAMMING. 
          SECONDARY MATH IS NEXT. THERE IS, DR. BRINKLEY IS PROPOSING SOME REVIEW AND REVISING OF OUR STANDARDS, YOU'LL SEE, IN TERMS OF CURRICULUM CHANGES. THAT STANDARDS UPDATE IS HAPPENING IN MATHEMATICS, AS I STATED PREVIOUSLY. AND THIS WILL PROVIDE SOME MUCH-NEEDED SUPPORT TO MAKE SURE THAT OUR CURRICULUM IS UP TO SPEED AND IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE EXPECTATIONS OF MSDE. ONE THING TO POINT OUT THAT YOU WILL SEE HERE. 
          UNDER INSTRUCTION AND SUPPLIES, YOU'LL SEE A LARGE INCREASE IN THE AREA OF INSTRUCTION AND SUPPLIES FOR OUR ENVISION PROGRAM. WE WERE USING THE FINAL STAGES OF THE ESSER FUNDING AND FY26 TO COVER THE EXPENSE TO THAT, SO THAT IS RETURNING TO OUR BUDGET, SO THAT'S WHY THAT IS A SIGNIFICANT INCREASE IN THAT AREA. ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT THE MATH PROGRAM? ELEMENTARY ELA IS NEXT. YOU WILL SEE A SIGNIFICANT DECREASE IN ELEMENTARY ELA. BECAUSE THIS IS WHERE THOSE TSI FUNDING LINES WERE, AND THAT HAS BEEN COMPLETELY SUNSET, SO THOSE FUNDS NO LONGER EXIST FOR THAT IN-SCHOOL TUTORING. 
          SO THAT'S WHY THAT DECLINE EXISTS AT THIS TIME. YOU'LL SEE MS. EICHINGER-WILSON HAS WORKED TO DEVELOP SOME PROFESSIONAL LEARNING TO SUPPORT OUR BOOKWORMS INSTRUCTION, AS WELL AS OUR FOUNDATIONS. 
          TRAINING FOR TEACHERS TO MAKE SURE EVERYONE HAS THE SKILLS AND TOOLS THEY NEED TO TEACH THE PROGRAMMING THAT WE PROVIDE FOR OUR STUDENTS IN THAT AREA. SO DOWN HERE, LET ME SEE IF I CAN FIND IT. 
          HERE IT IS. HERE'S WHERE YOU WILL SEE THE... REDUCTION FOR THOSE TSI FUNDS IN THE AREA OF ABOUT HALF A MILLION DOLLARS. 
          SO, DR. HEMMER, WITH THE NEW STATE ELA POLICY FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD, DO WE HAVE ENOUGH RESOURCES TO IMPLEMENT THAT POLICY WITH FIDELITY? I'LL ANSWER IT, AND DR. JOHNSON, IF YOU WANT TO JUMP IN, YOU CERTAINLY CAN. WE HAVE WORKED TO BUILD AN INFRASTRUCTURE. 
          OF OUR CURRICULUM, MATERIALS AND SUPPLIES, WE ALWAYS COULD USE MORE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOR OUR TEACHERS TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY ARE ON POINT WITH THOSE EXPECTATIONS OF THAT POLICY. THE STATE IS IN THE MIDST OF HEARING AN ADOLESCENT LITERACY POLICY THAT DOES MIRROR THE ELEMENTARY POLICY AS WELL. DR. JOHNSON, I'M NOT SURE IF YOU WANTED TO ADD ANYTHING. I WOULD AGREE, AND I WOULD SAY THAT WE'RE ALSO SUPPLEMENTING THOSE FUNDS WITH READ AND LEAD GRANT FUNDS. 
          THAT ARE HELPING US WITH THE REMAINDER. SO, FOR EXAMPLE, DATA TRACKING, COACHING AND SUPPORT, THOSE ARE COMING FROM GRANT DOLLARS THAT WE HAVE. THAT'S GOOD NEWS. IT IS GOOD NEWS. 
          QUESTIONS ON ELEMENTARY ELA? WE ARE AT THE TOP OF PAGE 38 AT THIS TIME, AND WE'RE GOING TO JUMP INTO SECONDARY ELA. 
          YOU'LL SEE THERE'S A SLIGHT INCREASE IN SECONDARY, ELEMENTARY. SHE WANTED TO DO SOME WORK OVER THE SUMMER. CUT THAT BACK JUST SLIGHTLY, BUT THAT WOULD BE TO PREPARE LESSONS AND MATERIALS. AS YOU KNOW, IN OUR MIDDLE SCHOOLS, WE HAVE EXPANDED THE AMOUNT OF TIME THAT TEACHERS HAVE FOR ELA. AND WITH A HOMEGROWN CURRICULUM, IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT THAT WE HAVE THE TIME TO MAKE SURE THAT THAT CURRICULUM IS ON POINT. 
          AND HAS THE RESOURCES AVAILABLE FOR THAT 90-MINUTE BLOCK THAT NOW APPEARS IN OUR MIDDLE SCHOOLS AND THE WORK IN OUR HIGH SCHOOLS AS WELL. 
          ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT SECONDARY ELA? ART IS NEXT. THERE'S A SLIGHT INCREASE IN THE AREA OF ART, AND THAT'S SIMPLY DUE TO THE REPLACEMENT OF A KILN THAT IS NECESSARY. 
          IT'S BEING REQUESTED. 
          QUESTIONS ABOUT ART? MUSIC IS NEXT. THERE IS A DECREASE IN THE AREA OF MUSIC. JUST SLIGHTLY DOWN OVER LAST YEAR'S BUDGET WHEN WE PURCHASED THE QUAVER SUBSCRIPTION, WHICH THAT WAS AN UPFRONT COST THAT HAS DECLINED OVER THIS YEAR. SO YOU CAN SEE THAT'S WHERE A DIFFERENCE IS. DIFFERENCES. 
          BUT YOU'LL SEE THERE'S SOME EPED IN HERE FOR CONCERTS, FOR TEACHERS. YOU'LL SEE ALL COUNTY SUBSTITUTES AND SUPPLIES, AS WELL AS SOME SUBSCRIPTIONS IN HERE THAT SUPPORT SOFTWARE THAT IS BEING USED IN OUR MUSIC CLASSROOMS. ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT MUSIC? I KNOW YOU'RE GETTING TIRED. WE'RE GETTING THERE. THE NEXT AREA YOU'LL SEE AT THE TOP OF PAGE 
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39, YOU'LL SEE PERSONAL WELLNESS. AND ON THAT PERSONAL WELLNESS LINE, MRS. SOPA ALREADY REFERENCED THIS, THAT THIS HAS BEEN ALL MOVED INTO HEALTH. SO YOU'LL SEE THAT THAT MOVEMENT HAS ALREADY HAPPENED IN OUR ACCOUNTING SOFTWARE. 
          THE NEXT AREA IS WORLD LANGUAGES. THERE IS A SLIGHT INCREASE IN THE AREA OF WORLD LANGUAGES. THIS PROVIDES SUBSTITUTES FOR CONTENT SUPPORT, TEACHER MEETINGS, SOME SUPPLIES, AND SUPPORT FOR THOSE STUDENTS WHO RECEIVE THE SEAL OF BILITERACY. I'LL JUMP RIGHT INTO MULTILINGUAL LEARNERS, AND AS MS. SOPA SHARED, THAT IS ALSO AN AREA OF BLUEPRINT WHERE INVESTMENTS HAVE BEEN MADE. THERE IS A SLIGHT INCREASE IN THAT AREA AT 3,800, AND MOST OF THIS... 
          PROVIDES SOME CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT. THERE'S SOME MATERIALS IN HERE, AS WELL AS SOME CONTRACTED SERVICES TO PROVIDE LANGUAGE SUPPORT AND TRANSLATION SERVICES FOR FAMILIES AND OUR SCHOOLS. 
          ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT ML? MR. DAVIS, THIS MAY BE A GOOD TIME TO BREAK FOR LUNCH. I KNOW THE LUNCH IS HERE IN THE BREAK ROOM, AND SO IF YOU WOULD, ENTERTAIN. AND HOW LONG WOULD THAT BE, DR. WILSON? WHAT DO YOU THINK? 20, 30 MINUTES TO EAT? 30 MINUTES. OKAY. SO WE'LL RECESS UNTIL ABOUT, I GUESS, 12.15, 12.20? THANK YOU. 
          ALL RIGHT. OKAY, FOLKS, WE'RE GOING TO GO AHEAD AND GET, WE'RE GOING TO RECONVENE WITH THE PRESENTATION AND CONTINUE ON. THERE YOU GO. DR. HAMMER CONTINUES ON PAGE 39. 
          AT THE BOTTOM OF PAGE 39, YOU'LL SEE THESE ARE OUR SCIENCE ROLL-UP. WE HAVE BEEN REQUESTING APPROXIMATELY A $27,000 INCREASE IN THAT AREA. AND AS YOU CAN SEE HERE, A LOT OF THAT REVOLVES AROUND CURRICULUM ADJUSTMENTS. 
          AGAIN, THIS IS A STANDARDS UPDATE THAT IS BEING REQUIRED BY THE MARYLAND STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION IN THE AREA OF SCIENCE, SO THERE'S SOME CURRICULUM WRITING FOR MAINLY OUR MIDDLE SCHOOL PROGRAMMING. THAT NEEDS TO HAVE SOME ADJUSTMENTS MADE DURING THE SCHOOL YEAR AND OVER THE SUMMER. THE OTHER THING YOU WILL START TO SEE DOWN HERE, THERE'S SOME SOFTWARE LICENSES. 
          GIZMO DOES PROVIDE SOME VIRTUAL LABS FOR OUR STUDENTS SO THAT THEY CAN SEE THINGS HAPPENING IN A VIRTUAL WAY AS A PART OF OUR SCIENCE PROGRAMMING. 
          AND ANOTHER AREA THAT YOU WILL SEE TOWARDS THE BOTTOM OF THIS IS THE AMOUNT OF MONEY THAT WE HAVE SET ASIDE FOR FIELD TRIPS. AND THAT IS FOR THE FAIRHILL NATURE CENTER PROGRAMMING THAT WE HAVE AS A PART OF OUR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE PROGRAM THAT WE HAVE. ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT SCIENCE? THERE WAS NOTHING UNDER FIELD TRIP. IS IT NOW UNDER STUDENT ENRICHMENT? IS THAT WHAT IT IS? IT'S YES, UNDER FIELD TRIP. FIELD TRIP IS BLANK, I THOUGHT. 05? 05. 
          THREE, TWO FIELD TRIPS. YES, OH, UP TOP, OKAY, ALL RIGHT. THERE'S A FIELD TRIP DOWN BELOW TOO. OKAY, UNDER INSTRUCTIONAL. SORRY, I WAS MISSING THE ONE YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT. THE ONE BELOW WAS FOR TRANSPORTATION, BUT FAMILIES COVER THE COST, OR SCHOOLS COVER THE COST OF TRANSPORTATION. THANK YOU, OKAY. THE NEXT AREA THAT YOU SEE HERE IS STEM. WE HAD ORIGINALLY PROPOSED, UM, AN INCREASE OF ABOUT $112,000 IN THE AREA OF STEM, AND THAT BASICALLY IS TO PROVIDE CONTINUANCE OF THE MIDDLE SCHOOL ROBOTICS PROGRAM AND THE EXPANSION TO THE HIGH SCHOOL ROBOTICS PROGRAM. 
          AT THIS TIME, WE ARE LOOKING TO RECOMMEND A HOLD ON THE HIGH SCHOOL ROBOTICS PROGRAM AS A PART OF THE REDUCTIONS THAT WE ARE PROPOSING TO MAKE. ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT STEM? THE NEXT AREA IN THE MIDDLE OF PAGE 40 IS SOCIAL STUDIES. SOCIAL STUDIES HAS BEEN NEGLECTED FOR MANY, MANY YEARS. AND, IN FACT, LAST YEAR, I BELIEVE HIS BUDGET WAS $3,600. SO WE HAVE LOOKED TO, YOU KNOW, MS. HAWLEY, THIS SPEAKS DIRECTLY TO WHAT YOU WERE SPEAKING ABOUT. WE HAVE NOT BEEN IN ALIGNMENT WITH THE MSDE GUIDANCE IN TERMS OF THE CURRICULUM. 
          THE STANDARDS ADJUSTMENTS THAT 
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HAVE NEEDED TO BE MADE, SO THIS PROVIDES A STRONG INVESTMENT INTO 6TH AND 7TH GRADE SOCIAL STUDIES CURRICULUM. THAT DOES INCLUDE SOME ONLINE MATERIALS HERE THAT WE WILL SUPPORT THAT 6TH AND 7TH GRADE CURRICULUM WRITING. HE DID INITIATE SOME CUTS IN THE AREA OF GOVERNMENT, INTRO TO PERSONAL FINANCE, AND SOME OF THE EXPANSION THAT HE WANTED TO DO IN THAT AREA. AND ALSO WAS RECOMMENDING TO PULL BACK ON THE HUMAN AP HUMAN GEOGRAPHY COURSE TEXTBOOK UPDATE THAT'S NECESSARY. ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT THE ADJUSTMENTS THAT ARE BEING MADE IN SOCIAL STUDIES? SO THAT TEXTBOOK IS NECESSARY, BUT WE'RE PULLING IT BACK. HE IS PRIORITIZING THE MIDDLE SCHOOL PROGRAMMING INSTEAD. 
          WITH SOME OF THE CHANGES AND CCR, WE'RE NOT SURE HOW SUBSCRIBED STUDENTS WILL BE TO. AP HUMAN GEOGRAPHY. OKAY, GREAT. THANK YOU. HEALTH EDUCATION IS NEXT. 
          AS MS. SOPA ALLUDED TO, YOU CAN SEE THE CURRICULUM WRITING FOR PERSONAL WELLNESS IS SPLIT OVER INTO THIS HEALTH EDUCATION THAT IS NOW PRE-K TO 12. SO THERE IS A SLIGHT INCREASE IN THIS AREA, AND THAT IS FOR THE RESOURCE FOR OUR GLENCOE HEALTH CURRICULUM. WE WERE GOING TO BE PURCHASING STUDENT MATERIALS FOR THAT, BUT THAT IS JUST FOR THE TEACHER EDITION OF THOSE MATERIALS. SO THAT'S WHERE MS. SEXTON HAS RECOMMENDED SOME OF THE REDUCTIONS IN THE HEALTH AREA. ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT HEALTH? THE BOTTOM OF PAGE 40, WE HAVE PHYSICAL EDUCATION. THERE IS SOME CURRICULUM WRITING THAT IS BEING PROPOSED IN ELEMENTARY AND MIDDLE SCHOOL PE. SOME ARCHERY START UP IF THAT IS HAPPENING IN A SCHOOL. AND A LOT OF THINGS THAT YOU'LL SEE IN THIS AREA ARE THE CONTRACT, THE EQUIPMENT, FITNESS EQUIPMENT CONTRACT. 
          AND MAKE SURE THAT THE FITNESS EQUIPMENT IS APPROPRIATE AND SAFE FOR OUR STUDENTS TO USE. 
          WE'LL MOVE OVER TO THE TOP OF PAGE 41 AND ATHLETICS. THERE IS AN INCREASE IN THE AREA OF ATHLETICS OF $72,000. AND WHAT YOU'LL SEE? MAINLY? THAT INCREASE COMES FROM OUR CONTRACTED SERVICES WITH OUR ATHLETIC TRAINERS, OUR DEPUTY COVERAGE, AS WELL AS OFFICIALS. FEES IS WHERE MOST OF THOSE INCREASES COME IN THAT AREA FOR ATHLETICS. BUT NO REDUCTIONS ARE BEING RECOMMENDED AT THIS TIME. THIS DOES INCLUDE, AND I WILL NOTE, THAT IT INCLUDES ELEMENTARY, MIDDLE, AND HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETICS. 
          QUESTIONS ON ATHLETICS? IS THE EXTRA DUTY, IS THAT THE STIPENDS? EXTRA PAY FOR EXTRA DUTY, E-P-E-D, CORRECT. THAT'S FOR COACHING. 
          WELL, YES, THERE IS FOR COACHING, BUT THERE'S ALSO FOR COVERAGE, GAME COVERAGE. 
          GAME COVERAGE. SO YOU SEE SECURITY AND GAMES MANAGEMENT. 
          YEAH, SECURITY AND GAMES MANAGEMENT. TWO DIFFERENT THINGS. GOOD AFTERNOON. WE'RE GOING TO MOVE INTO THE OFFICE OF FINANCE. THAT'S DEPARTMENT 50,000. IF YOU GO DOWN TO THE CATEGORIES. 09, 10, AND 11, YOU'RE GOING TO SEE INCREASES THERE, SPECIFICALLY TIED TO INSURANCE AND COMPREHENSIVE GENERAL LIABILITY IN EACH OF THOSE THREE AREAS, TOTALING $42,292. SO THOSE ARE INSURANCE RATE INCREASES THAT WE'RE GOING TO BE EXPERIENCING IN THE OFFICE OF FINANCE. ANY QUESTIONS? ON THE BOTTOM OF PAGE 41, DEPARTMENT 50,100, BUSINESS SERVICES. WE SEE A SLIGHT INCREASE HERE. 
          YOU WILL ALSO NOTICE THAT SCHOOL CASH UNDER 0267, UNDER THAT OBJECT NEAR THE BOTTOM THERE OF PAGE 41, YOU'RE GOING TO SEE SCHOOL CASH THERE. IT WAS MOVED INTO A SOFTWARE LICENSE FROM CONTRACTED SERVICES THIS YEAR, SO IT'S NOT A NEW EXPENSE. 
          IT'S JUST AN EXPENSE THAT'S BEEN MOVED FROM ONE ALLOCATION INTO A DIFFERENT OBJECT ALLOCATION. I JUST WANT TO SHARE, A LOT OF TIMES AT THE END OF THE YEAR, YOU'LL SEE. WHEN WE DO A BUDGET AMENDMENT THAT INCLUDES OUR LEASES OR OUR SUBSCRIPTIONS, WE HAVE TO DO AN ENTRY TO RECOGNIZE OUR WHOLE RIGHT TO USE THE ASSET. AND SO WE WERE CATEGORIZING THAT AS A CONTRACTED SERVICE, AND WORKING WITH OUR ACCOUNTANT LAST YEAR, IT REALLY SHOULD BE CATEGORIZED AS A SOFTWARE LICENSE. SO WE DID CHANGE THE OBJECT. SO I KNOW SOME QUESTIONS HAVE BEEN ASKED BEFORE. THAT WAS ONE WHERE WE DID CHANGE THE OBJECT FROM A 0208 TO A 0267. AND THAT'S WHY YOU SEE A DECREASE IN ONE AND A DECREASE IN THE OTHER, BUT IT'S REALLY JUST MOVING HOW WE ALLOCATE IT. 
          MOVING TO PAGE 42 OF THE DEPARTMENT OF PURCHASING, 50,200. IF YOU WOULD LOOK UNDER THE OBJECTS 01, 02, ALL OF THE OBJECTS THERE, REALLY, 
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YOU'RE GOING TO NOTICE THAT. 
          PRINT CHARGES AND COPIER CHARGES AND POSTAGE CHARGES ARE ALL ALLOCATED HERE. AND AGAIN, AS I'VE SPOKEN EARLIER, OF AN ESCALATOR WITHIN THE CONTRACT, THAT'S REFLECTED IN THE INCREASE HERE OF $116,000 IN THE AREA OF PURCHASING. ANY QUESTIONS? VEHICLE LEASES ARE ALSO IN THIS ROLL-UP. AND OBJECT 11, MAINTENANCE OF PLANT. THE NEXT DEPARTMENT IS UTILITIES. 
          50,300. AGAIN, YOU'RE GOING TO SEE INCREASE HERE, 500,000. 
          THAT IS, AGAIN, TIED TO ELECTRICITY, FUEL, OIL, PROPANE, NATURAL GAS, WATER, AND SEWER. THE RATES ARE GOING UP, AND THE ENERGY CONSORTIUM WITH ESMEC, THERE'S A CHANGE THERE. WE'VE ALL EXPERIENCED THE INCREASE IN OUR OWN PERSONAL USAGE, AND SO THAT'S BEING REFLECTED HERE ACROSS OUR SYSTEM. THE LAST ITEM HERE ON 42, DEPARTMENT OF STUDENT TRANSPORTATION, $60,100. AGAIN, YOU'LL NOTE THERE'S A LOT OF RED HERE THROUGHOUT THIS DEPARTMENT, TO THE TUNE OF $735,000 THAT WE'VE TASKED DR. HELM WITH REMOVING AND MOVING OUT OF HIS BUDGET. WITH THAT, YOU'RE GOING TO SEE AN 0212 IN BUS CONTRACTS. YOU'RE GOING TO SEE A REMOVAL THERE OF THE EARLY COLLEGE ACADEMY, WHICH WAS SLATED TO GO AT NORTHEAST HIGH SCHOOL. NOTE IN THIS BUS CONTRACT ARE GOING TO BE SALARIES AND WAGES FOR ALL OF OUR BUS CONTRACTORS, AS WELL AS 12 NEW BUSES. SO THERE, AGAIN, AS A REMINDER, A BUS HAS A LIFESPAN OF 12 YEARS. AT THE END OF THAT 12 YEARS, YOU CAN REQUEST AN ADDITIONAL THREE YEARS OF SERVICE WITH THAT, DEPENDING UPON THE WEAR AND TEAR THAT'S ON THAT BUS AND THE CONDITION THAT THAT BUS IS IN, TO EXTEND ITS LIFE TO 15. SO WE HAVE 12 NEW BUSES ACROSS OUR CONTRACTOR FLEET. 
          THEY'RE GOING TO NEED TO BE REPLACED, UNDERSTANDING THAT WHEN THEY GO OUT AND BUY A NEW BUS, A NEW BUS RIGHT NOW IS AROUND $160,000. SOMETIMES WHAT THEY'RE DOING IS THEY'RE BUYING A 4-YEAR-OLD BUS, AN 8-YEAR-OLD BUS. IT REALLY DEPENDS UPON THE CONTRACTOR AND WHERE IT IS ACROSS THEIR FLEET. 
          BUT YOU'RE GOING TO SEE, AGAIN, A NET INCREASE HERE, BUT YET WE'VE TASKED TO COME IN WITH A DECREASE, REDUCING THAT BY $735,000. I'M SORRY. GO AHEAD. DO WE KNOW SINCE, YOU KNOW, WE'RE TAKING OUT, REPLACING THESE BUSES, DO WE KNOW WHAT YEAR EACH ONE OF OUR BUSES ARE IN? ARE WE AT THE 15 ON SOME OF THEM? WE DO. SO, DR. HELM, IN WORKING WITH OUR CONTRACTORS, WE HAVE A SPREADSHEET THAT SHOWS EVERY ONE OF OUR BUSES, THE YEAR THAT IT IS IN, AND SO WE CAN APPROXIMATE YEAR OVER YEAR WHAT OUR NEED FOR NEW BUSES IS GOING TO BE. 
          AND I WANT TO SAY. FIVE YEARS AGO, DR. HELMER, SOMEWHERE IN THAT NEIGHBORHOOD, WE SAT DOWN WITH ALL OF OUR CONTRACTORS AND PUT TOGETHER THIS SPREADSHEET SO THAT WE WOULD AVOID THIS HUGE BUBBLE OF HAVING TO REPLACE 20 BUSES IN ONE GIVEN YEAR. AND THEY'VE WORKED WITH US AND WE'VE WORKED WITH THEM TO KIND OF SMOOTH THAT LINE OUT OVER TIME. YES, AND FOR THE GIVEN YEAR, WE WERE GOING TO REPLACE EIGHT BUSES THAT WERE AT THE 15-YEAR MARK AND FOUR BUSES THAT WERE AT THE 12-YEAR MARK. I DID WANT TO SPEAK BRIEFLY TO THE EARLY COLLEGE ACADEMY. 
          IT WILL BE REFLECTED AT THE COST OF ABOUT $155,000 IN OUR INITIAL PROPOSAL IN THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FOR HIGH SCHOOL LINE. THIS IS THE FIRST PLACE YOU'RE SEEING IT. BUT I JUST WANTED TO MAKE A NOTE THAT THIS IS SOMETHING YOU WILL SEE IN THAT LINE AS A RECOMMENDED REDUCTION. THIS IS JUST THE TRANSPORTATION PIECE OF IT, CORRECT. ARE THERE ANY OTHER QUESTIONS WITH STUDENT TRANSPORTATION? THAT GOES OVER TO THE TOP OF PAGE 43 AS WELL. HEARING NONE, WE'LL MOVE ON TO DEPARTMENT 60,200, WHICH IS OUR OPERATIONS OF PLANT. AGAIN, YOU'RE GOING TO SEE AN INCREASE HERE. A LOT OF THIS IS EQUIPMENT. THE MOST SIGNIFICANT INCREASE YOU'RE GOING TO SEE YEAR OVER YEAR IS IN TRASH REMOVAL, AS WELL AS IN CLEANING SUPPLIES AND MATERIALS, OBJECT 0380. TRASH REMOVAL WAS OBJECT 0218. 
          INCREASES THERE. WE ARE IN NEED OF REPLACING EQUIPMENT AS IT AGES OUT. BUT WE HAVE STRUCK TWO NEW MOWERS AND TWO NEW RIDE-ON SCRUBBERS AT OUR SCHOOLS. WE WILL WORK TO EXTEND THE LIFE OF THOSE. 
          BUT THOSE FOUR PIECES OF EQUIPMENT TOTAL $68,333. 
          ANY QUESTIONS? MOVING ON TO MAINTENANCE PLANT 60,300. 
          AGAIN, SLIGHT INCREASE HERE. 
          WHAT I WANT TO DRAW YOUR ATTENTION TO IS AN INCREASE IN 0267 SOFTWARE LICENSE. SO THIS IS 
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THE SCHOOL, DUDE. SOFTWARE AND THAT USED TO BE A CONTRACTED SERVICE. 
          AGAIN, IT'S ONE OF THOSE ITEMS THAT MS. SOPA HAD REFERRED TO EARLIER. IT'S BEEN MOVED INTO A SUBSCRIPTION. THUS, IT'S NOW INTO A SOFTWARE LICENSE. 
          SO THAT TRANSFER OF THAT FUND IS NOW BEING ALLOCATED OUT OF SOFTWARE LICENSING FOR US. 
          BUT THAT MANAGES OUR WORK ORDER SYSTEM. THAT TRACKS OUR INVENTORY, AS WELL AS ANY USAGE OF OUR FACILITIES IS TRACKED THROUGH THERE AS WELL. 
          QUESTIONS WITH MAINTENANCE PLAN? I KNOW EARLIER WE DISCUSSED THE ABILITY OF OUR MAINTAINERS TO KEEP UP ON SCHEDULED MAINTENANCE. WILL THIS ALLOW THEM TO DO THAT? IN TERMS OF ADDRESSING OUR DEFERRED MAINTENANCE ISSUES? SO I WOULD SAY THAT THE MAINTENANCE OF PLANT, AS WELL AS THE NEXT SEVERAL DEPARTMENTS THAT WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT, ELECTRICAL SERVICES, HVAC SERVICES, CARPENTRY SERVICES. 
          WITHIN EACH OF THOSE DEPARTMENTS ARE DOLLARS THAT ARE ALLOCATED TO ADDRESS SOME OF THOSE DEFERRED MAINTENANCE ISSUES OR SOME OF THOSE PROJECTS THAT WE'RE ABLE TO MAINTAIN. AND WE'RE ABLE TO DO IN-HOUSE, AS OPPOSED TO HAVING TO CONTRACT OUT FOR OTHER LICENSED TRADES TO COME IN AND DO THAT WORK. 
          AND THAT'S BARRING A CATASTROPHIC OR A SYSTEM COMPLETELY FAILING AND GOING DOWN. IN ELECTRICAL SERVICES, AGAIN, YOU'LL SEE AN INCREASE HERE OF $33,000. AGAIN, THAT'S DUE TO SUPPLY MATERIALS AND PARTS. 
          AND AGAIN, I THINK, MR. HAMPTON TRYING TO ADDRESS YOUR CONCERN IS WITH OUR AGING EQUIPMENT, PUTTING MORE DOLLARS THERE TO BE ABLE TO ADDRESS EQUIPMENT THAT WE KNOW IS AGING AND WEARING OUT. YOU'LL SEE THAT SAME PHENOMENA PLAYED OUT AT THE BOTTOM OF PAGE 43. 
          IN HVAC SERVICES, 60,320 INCREASES HERE. WE'LL CONTINUE ON TO THE TOP OF PAGE 44, REPAIRS IN HVAC, REPAIRS IN PLUMBING, HEATING, PLUMBING, HVAC SUPPLIES AT THE TOP OF PAGE 44. EACH OF THOSE ITEMS HAVE SEEN A SLIGHT INCREASE. 
          AND AGAIN, THAT'S JUST, IT'S COUPLED WITH THE COST OF MATERIALS, AS WELL AS THE MAINTENANCE ISSUES AND THE AGE OF OUR MECHANICAL SYSTEMS THAT WE HAVE AND WORKING TO MAINTAIN THEM AND KEEP THEM OPERATIONAL. 
          IN DEPARTMENT SAFETY SERVICES, 60,330, SLIGHT INCREASE THERE OF 14,000. 
          WE'RE PROPOSING A REDUCTION THERE OF 15. IN CARPENTRY SERVICES, 60,340, A SLIGHT INCREASE THERE. I'LL REMIND YOU THAT A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO WE USED TO HAVE $40,000 THAT WAS PARKED IN CAPITAL OUTLAY AND THAT WAS TO ADDRESS FLOORING NEEDS. 
          LAST YEAR, WE WENT TO PLACE THAT WHERE IT ACTUALLY BELONGS. 
          AND SO AS WE DID THAT, WE KNEW WE HAD AN IDENTIFIED NEED IN HVAC, SO THAT $40,000 WAS TAKEN OUT OF CAPITAL OUTLAY, IT WAS PUT INTO HVAC. THIS YEAR, WE'RE TRANSFERRING THAT FROM HVAC INTO CARPENTRY. BUT TO GIVE YOU AN IDEA, YOU WILL NOTICE THERE THAT THE OBJECT 0252, YOU'RE GOING TO SEE A PRETTY BIG JUMP OF $50,000. WE REPLACED TWO EXTERIOR DOORS AT PERRYVILLE HIGH SCHOOL THIS YEAR THAT WERE IN NEED OF REPAIR. THOSE TWO DOORS WERE $18,000. SO AGAIN, WHEN WE SPEAK OF COST OF MATERIAL AND SUCH, ANY TYPE OF PROJECTS THAT WE'RE DOING, THERE CAN BE A SIGNIFICANT PRICE TAG TO THE REPLACEMENT PARTS OR THE REPLACEMENT OF SAID ITEMS. AND THAT'S WHY THERE'S AN INCREASE THERE. 
          NEXT, ANY QUESTIONS? IN GROUNDS AND MAINTENANCE, 60,350, YOU'RE GOING TO SEE AN INCREASE HERE. 0223 IS CONTRACTED UPKEEP IN GROUNDS, AND WE'VE REDUCED THAT LINE ITEM. 
          BUT BASICALLY, WHAT THAT DOES IS ANY PAVING WORK, ANY SIDEWALK WORK, ANY REMOVAL OF TREES, ANYTHING THAT IS BEYOND THE SCOPE OF WORK OR CAPACITY FOR OUR CREWS. WE WILL CONTRACT THAT OUT. IF YOU'LL RECALL, EARLIER THIS YEAR, WE HAD A COUPLE OF TREES. 
          IN SEVERAL SITUATIONS AT THE FRONT OF THE SCHOOL OF TECHNOLOGY THAT NEEDED TO BE ADDRESSED. IT WAS BEYOND THE SCOPE OF OUR GUYS. 
          OUR FOLKS COULD NOT HANDLE THAT TASK BECAUSE OF THE SIZE OF THE TREES AND THE EQUIPMENT NECESSARY, SO WE CONTRACTED THAT OUT. AND I THINK THIS IS WHAT YOU WERE GETTING AT, MR. FERDINANDO, EARLIER, IS THAT IF YOU LOOK AT THE 0223 UPKEEPING GROUNDS. 
          IT WAS INITIALLY RECOMMENDED AT $155,000, AND THAT GOT REDUCED TO $99,000. BUT THE $99,000 IS AN INCREASE FROM $55,000. IT GOT REDUCED TO 
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$55,000. RIGHT, BUT THE RECOMMENDATION THAT WAS THERE INITIALLY WAS $155,000. IT GOT REDUCED TO $100,000. 55. THE INCREASE WAS 99. OKAY. SO BASICALLY IT'S FLAT YEAR OVER YEAR. BECAUSE LAST YEAR WAS 55. AND WITH A REDUCTION OF 100, IT WOULD BE 55 IN THE REQUEST COMING FORWARD THIS YEAR. ALL RIGHT, SO DR. 
          LAWSON, ALL OF YOU, THAT WITH WHAT YOU JUST POINTED OUT, IT SHOWS INCREASED DECREASE OF 99,000. THAT WAS WHAT THE INCREASE WOULD HAVE BEEN? CORRECT. OKAY, SO THAT'S NOT REFLECTING WHAT IT IS NOW. SO IT'S NEGATIVE 425. SO IT'S ACTUALLY ZERO NOW. IT'S ACTUALLY FLAT. YEAH, OKAY, OKAY. THE NEXT ROLL-UP IS FIXED CHARGES, AND THIS IS EVERYTHING ASSOCIATED WITH THE EMPLOYMENT OF OUR FTES. AND SO... MOST OF THESE ARE ACTUALLY ALL COMPLETELY DEPENDENT ON THE NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES, THE TYPES OF EMPLOYEES, THEIR SALARIES. SO PENSION, AGAIN, IS A PERCENTAGE OF YOUR SALARY. SO WE HAVE TEACHER PENSION, EMPLOYEE PENSION, SOCIAL SECURITY. ALL THOSE THINGS REALLY TIE BACK. 
          SO THIS WILL CHANGE WIDELY DEPENDING ON OUR FTES AND THE PEOPLE THAT WE HAVE EMPLOYED. 
          THE ONLY THING THAT WILL BE PRETTY STATIC IS OUR RETIREE HEALTH CARE. AND WE DID A LITTLE. AGAIN, SOME CHANGES BASED ON WORKING WITH OUR ACCOUNTANTS AND DOING OUR FINANCIAL STATEMENTS, BREAKING APART CLAIMS FROM HEALTHCARE. SO IF YOU SEE NOW, IT'S JUST NOT RETIREE HEALTHCARE, BUT WE HAVE CLAIMS AND WE ALSO SEPARATED OUT ACTIVE CLAIMS. THAT WAS MORE FOR OUR REPORTING. BUT THIS WILL ALL REALLY GET NAILED DOWN AND MORE SPECIFIC ONCE WE KNOW EXACTLY WHO THE PEOPLE ARE AND WHERE THEY ARE. BECAUSE HOW IT USED TO BE BEFORE BLUEPRINT, YOU HAD ONE TEACHER PENSION ACCOUNT AND YOU BUDGETED ALL YOUR TEACHER PENSIONS THERE. NOW YOU HAVE A TEACHER PENSION FOR TEACHERS AT CALVERT, WHO ARE PAID THROUGH PRE-K FUNDING. 
          TEACHERS AT CALVERT WHO ARE PAID THROUGH FOUNDATION FUNDING. SO YOU GET THE IDEA, RIGHT? THE NUMBER OF PENSION ACCOUNTS THAT YOU HAVE. SO THIS IS REALLY A LOT OF TEDIOUS WORK. THAT ONCE WE'VE NAILED DOWN OUR FTES, WE'LL HAVE ALL OF THOSE NUMBERS IN THE EXACT SCHOOL LOCATIONS BY THE FUNDING SOURCE. AND ALL THESE GROUPS, THEY ARE THE... 
          EMPLOYEES, OR, I'M SORRY, EMPLOYEE OR CCPS SHARE OF THOSE, LIKE FOR SOCIAL SECURITY. YES, THIS IS OUR SHARE. EMPLOYEES ALSO CONTRIBUTE 7% OF THEIR SALARY. 
          AT THE BOTTOM OF PAGE 44, DEPARTMENT OF CAPITAL OUTLAY, $60,600. AGAIN, ANY WORK THAT IS DONE IN CAPITAL OUTLAY THAT WE REQUIRE TO GO OUT TO AN ARCHITECT OR TO GET DESIGN OR FEASIBILITY STUDIES OR ANYTHING, ALL OF THAT COMES OUT OF THIS LINE ITEM. AND YOU'LL SEE, YEAR OVER YEAR, IT'S SLIGHTLY DOWN FROM LAST YEAR. WE'RE GOING TO JUMP NOW INTO OUR SCHOOL ACCOUNTS, STARTING WITH OUR EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FOR ELEMENTARY. THE ONE THING THAT YOU WILL SEE IN HIS ACCOUNT IS A LINE FOR FIELD TRIPS, WHICH IS UP JUST SLIGHTLY. AND THAT ARE FOR TRANSITION DAYS, SO OUR ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS GO AND VISIT OUR MIDDLE SCHOOLS TO MAKE SURE THAT OUR STUDENTS ARE FAMILIAR WITH THE SCHOOL THAT THEY'RE GOING TO BE ATTENDING. SO THAT'S WHAT THOSE FUNDS ARE THERE FOR. THE NEXT WHAT YOU'LL SEE IS SEVERAL PAGES WORTH OF LINES THAT ARE ALL OF OUR ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS THAT LIVE UNDER THAT EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LINE. SO THIS IS THE PPA, OR THE PER PUPIL ALLOCATION, THAT HAS BEEN GIVEN FOR SUPPLIES AND SOME STAFF RECOGNITION IN THOSE SCHOOLS. 
          SO IT VARIES. IT'S ALL BASED UPON EACH STUDENT WHO'S ENROLLED IN THAT BUILDING. AND THEIR ALLOTMENT IS $63 PER STUDENT. SO THEY RECEIVE A WORKBOOK, AND THEN THEY TAKE THEIR TOTAL ALLOCATION, AND THEY DETERMINE HOW THEY WANT TO DIVIDE THAT UP, BASICALLY BETWEEN SUPPLIES, CONTRACTED SERVICES, HOW THEY'RE GOING TO SPEND THAT POT OF MONEY. DO WE USE THE SEPTEMBER 1ST DATE? TO DETERMINE HOW MANY STUDENTS, DO WE USE THE SAME DATE AS? YES, SO WHEN THEY ORIGINALLY GET THEIR BUDGET, IF WE DON'T HAVE THE FINAL SEPTEMBER 30TH COUNT YET, WE'LL USE THE YEAR BEFORE, AND THEN ONCE THE FINAL SEPTEMBER 30TH COUNT COMES IN, WE REVISE THEIR NUMBERS, SO THEY'RE WORKING OFF OF THE SAME ENROLLMENT DATE AND DATA AS WE ARE FOR OUR OVERALL FUNDING. THIS IS PROBABLY A GOOD PLACE FOR MS. SOPA TO LAY OUT, JUST FOR THE BOARD'S AWARENESS, EXCUSE ME, THE VAST REPORTING REQUIREMENTS THAT ARE INHERENT TO THE BLUEPRINT. AND SO THAT 
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I'D LIKE TO TAKE A MINUTE AND JUST LAY OUT FOR THE BOARD THAT. THE EXPECTATION, THE REQUIREMENT THROUGH THE BLUEPRINT IS TO REPORT OUT BY SCHOOL IN ALL OF THE DIFFERENT RESTRICTED FUNDING LINES. DOES THAT MAKE SENSE? SO IT'S REPORTING BY SCHOOL, BUT IT'S ALSO TYING EVERY EXPENSE BACK TO A REVENUE SOURCE. SO IF YOU REMEMBER, I SAID AT THE BEGINNING, OR MAYBE IT WAS THE LAST MEETING, BEFORE BLUEPRINT, WE RECEIVED ONE POT OF FUNDING FROM THE STATE. AND WE RECEIVED ONE POT OF FUNDING FROM THE COUNTY. AND AS LONG AS YOUR REVENUE EQUALS YOUR EXPENSE, YOU DIDN'T HAVE TO GO BACK AND SAY, I'M USING THIS POT OF MONEY TO PAY FOR THIS. THAT'S HOW GRANTS WERE ALWAYS SET UP, AND THAT'S WHY I MENTIONED THAT PROJECT NUMBER. WE WOULD ALWAYS TIE GRANT ACCOUNTS BACK TO A PROJECT SO YOU COULD SEE, HERE'S THE MONEY THAT I'M USING TO PAY FOR THESE THINGS. IT GOES BACK TO THIS GRANT. 
          WELL, NOW WHAT WE'RE REQUIRED TO DO IS EVERYTHING THAT WE DO HAS TO TIE BACK TO THE FUNDING SOURCE. SO AS DR. LAWSON SAID, AND I SAID EARLIER, IF I'M A TEACHER AT CALVERT, I COULD BE PAID OUT OF FOUNDATION, I COULD BE PAID OUT OF SPECIAL ED, I COULD BE PAID OUT OF COMP ED, I COULD BE PAID OUT OF PRE-K, I COULD BE PAID OUT OF A COMBINATION OF THEM. 
          SO THEN MY HEALTH CARE WILL HAVE AN ACCOUNT THAT HAS THAT PROJECT, THAT HAS THAT LOCATION. SO WE'VE TAKEN, LIKE I SAID, ONE PENSION ACCOUNT AND MULTIPLY THAT TIMES THE NUMBER OF LOCATIONS, TIMES THE NUMBER OF FUNDING SOURCES. AND THEN WE ALSO HAVE TO DETERMINE HOW MUCH IT COSTS FOR EACH OF THOSE PEOPLE IN EACH OF THOSE ACCOUNTS. AND YOU CAN SEE HOW IT GETS A LITTLE TWISTED UP. WHEN YOU'RE TRYING TO MAKE MINIMUM SCHOOL FUNDING. 
          BECAUSE WE'RE TRYING, HEALTH CARE IS A GREAT EXAMPLE, WE'RE TRYING TO PROJECT HOW MUCH IT'S GOING TO COST FOR HEALTH CARE FOR PEOPLE BECAUSE WE'RE SELF-FUNDED. AND SO YOU DO YOUR BEST ESTIMATING AND WHERE YOU HAVE IT ALLOCATED. AND YOU COULD HAVE SOMEBODY WHO STARTS OUT WITH A FAMILY PLAN, WHO CHANGES TO AN INDIVIDUAL PLAN, WHO GETS RID OF THE HEALTH CARE ALTOGETHER AND GOES ON THEIR SPOUSE'S PLAN. AND NOW WE'RE PAYING THEM AN OPT-OUT. 
          SO IT'S SORT OF AN EVER-MOVING TARGET. 
          BUT THINGS THAT USED TO JUST BE A VERY SIMPLE, HERE'S YOUR PENSION ACCOUNT, PAY YOUR PENSION BILL, NOW IT'S BASED ON ALL OF THESE LOCATIONS AND ALL OF THESE SOURCES. SO EVERYTHING HAS TO BE TIED BACK TO WHICH POT OF MONEY ARE YOU USING TO PAY FOR IT. SO WHEN THEY DETERMINE IF WE'RE MAKING MINIMUM SCHOOL FUNDING, WE'RE REPORTING BY LOCATION. ALL OF THOSE EXPENSES TIE BACK TO A FUNDING SOURCE. AND THE SAME IS TRUE FOR THE COUNTY FUNDING. WE HAVE TO SHOW HOW THE COUNTY FUNDING IS BEING SPENT. WE DON'T REPORT THAT PART TO THE STATE, BUT WE HAVE TO BE ABLE TO DEMONSTRATE IT. SO IT'S MUCH MORE DETAILED REPORTING THAN IT WAS. OBVIOUSLY, THAT'S A LOT MORE WORK THAN IT WAS FOR YOU. HAVE YOU HAD TO HIRE, OR YOUR DEPARTMENT HAD TO HIRE MORE PEOPLE TO ANSWER THAT? SO, YES. AND I THINK AS WE START THE DISCUSSION, MAYBE TODAY, IF NOT TODAY, NEXT WEDNESDAY NIGHT, ABOUT THE LEVEL OF REDUCTIONS, I WOULD SUGGEST TO YOU THAT I WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO SUPPORT FURTHER CUTS. IN BUSINESS SERVICES OR HUMAN RESOURCES. BOTH OF THOSE AREAS HAVE BECOME QUITE ONEROUS AS IT RELATES TO BLUEPRINT SPENDING, AND, MORE SPECIFICALLY, BLUEPRINT REPORTING. LITERALLY TENS OF THOUSANDS OF LINES NOW. AND IN A WAY, I'LL SAY THIS, ONE OF THE GOOD THINGS THAT BLUEPRINT HAS DONE, AND THEY HAVE DONE SOME GOOD THINGS, ONE IS TRANSPARENCY. 
          FOR THE PEOPLE, AND YOU'VE SEEN THIS, FOR THE PEOPLE WHO ARE REALLY WILLING TO DIVE IN AND LOOK AT A NUANCED LEVEL AT HOW MONEY IS BEING SPENT, THERE IS UNPARALLELED INFORMATION AVAILABLE TO SEE. 
          AND SO I DO THINK THAT'S A GOOD THING. BUT THE FUNDING FOR THAT, ALL OF THAT ACCOUNTABILITY IS FOUNDATION. 
          SO, AGAIN, THAT'S SOMETHING COMING OUT OF FOUNDATION FUNDING. AND TO PIGGYBACK OFF OF WHAT DR. 
          LAWSON SAID IN HUMAN RESOURCES. JUST TO USE THE SAME SCHOOL, BEFORE, WHEN YOU HIRED A TEACHER AT CALVERT, IT WAS VERY SIMPLE. 
          THE OBJECT WAS A TEACHER, THE LOCATION WAS CALVERT, AND THERE YOU GO, THEY COULD ASSIGN AN ACCOUNT NUMBER. WELL, NOW THEY NEED TO CHECK WITH US AND SEE WHICH FUNDING SOURCE ARE WE USING, AND THEN WE HAVE TO LOOK AT HOW MUCH THE PERSON COSTS. 
          AND DECIDE WHETHER WE CAN AFFORD THEM IN THAT FUNDING SOURCE OR WHETHER WE NEED TO ASSIGN THEM TO A DIFFERENT FUNDING SOURCE. 
          SO IT'S A REALLY TEDIOUS PROCESS, EVEN TO JUST ASSIGN AN ACCOUNT NUMBER TO AN EMPLOYEE. AND IT'S JUST NOT RANDOM. YOU HAVE TO BE COGNIZANT OF THE AMOUNT OF REVENUE SET ASIDE FOR BAYVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL COMP. ED. THEY'RE CLEARLY GOING TO HAVE MORE REVENUE FOR COMP ED AT BAYVIEW THAN THEY MIGHT AT CHARLESTOWN. SO THAT'S A PLAYER AS WELL. DOES THIS MAKE, IF YOU'RE FOLLOWING ALL THE RULES, YOU KNOW, FOLLOW THE MONEY, THE MONEY FOLLOWS THE STUDENT, BUT DOES IT MAKE IT MORE DIFFICULT FOR A TEACHER TO TRANSFER FROM BAYVIEW TO CHARLESTOWN? TECHNICALLY, THAT'S THE INTENT OF THE BLUEPRINT. WE HAVE NOT GOTTEN TO THAT POINT BECAUSE THERE'S THIS DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE BLUEPRINT, INTENT AND NEGOTIATED AGREEMENTS AND TRANSFER LANGUAGE FOR STAFF MEMBERS. SO THE 75-25 
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MINIMUM SCHOOL FUNDING RULE, THAT'S WHAT YOU'RE ALLUDING TO THERE. EXCUSE ME, JUST GOT ANOTHER ONE-YEAR PAUSE. AND SO I THINK PEOPLE ARE COMING TO REALIZE THAT WHAT THE BLUEPRINT WAS INTENDED TO DO VERSUS WHAT IT IS ABLE TO DO IN THE CURRENT ENVIRONMENT ARE NOT NECESSARILY THE SAME. BUT YES, IS THE ANSWER TO YOUR QUESTION. THAT WAS, THAT IS, A NET EFFECT, POTENTIALLY. WE'RE NOT THERE YET. COULD WE BE THERE AT SOME POINT? WE COULD. 
          TO DRAW YOUR ATTENTION BACK TO THE MIDDLE OF PAGE 47, WE ARE ON THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FOR MIDDLE SCHOOLS. YOU'LL SEE THAT THERE ORIGINALLY WAS A SLIGHT INCREASE IN THAT AREA FOR EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF MIDDLE SCHOOLS. WE DO HAVE A JUMP START PROGRAM IN THERE THAT WE ARE SEEKING AND HAVE SOME GRANT FUNDING FOR. SO THAT COULD BE SOMETHING THAT, AS THE BUDGET SHAKES OUT, WE WOULD BE PULLING BACK AND SUPPORTING IT WITH GRANT FUNDS. BUT ONE OF THE BIG PIECES YOU'LL SEE IN HERE IS A RECOMMENDATION TO PULL BACK. FROM THE NORTH BAY CONTRACT THAT WE USE IN OUR SIXTH GRADE PROGRAMS TO SUPPORT ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION. ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FOR MIDDLE SCHOOL? THE NEXT SEVERAL LINES, YOU'LL SEE OUR SIX MIDDLE SCHOOLS ON PAGE 47 AND ON TO THE MIDDLE OF PAGE 48, AND THAT'S THE PER-PUPIL ALLOCATION FOR THOSE SCHOOLS UNTIL WE GET TO THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FOR HIGH SCHOOL. 
          IN THIS AREA, WHAT YOU'LL SEE IS AN INCREASE. 
          WE DO HAVE AP EXAMS THAT ARE IN THAT LINE, AS WELL AS THE POTENTIAL OF GRADUATION AND STREAMING OF THAT GRADUATION IS WHAT THE REDUCTION IS IN THAT AREA. NO? I'M SORRY. THE REDUCTION IS TAKING IT DOWN TO HALF THE COST, SO SCHOOL SPLITTING THE COST WITH THE BOARD. SORRY. THANK YOU. I APOLOGIZE. THE ORIGINAL AMOUNT IS THE ENTIRE AMOUNT. 
          IF YOU ADD... ALL THE HIGH SCHOOLS FOR NEXT YEAR AGAIN A PROJECTION, UM. AND SO THE REDUCTION IS JUST TAKING THAT IN HALF, FOR SCHOOLS TO PAY HALF AND THE BOARD TO PAY HALF. AND IS THAT GRADUATION? AND THE LIVE STREAMING OF IT, OR THE LIVE STREAMING OF IT, THAT'S A TOTAL COST. UM, WHEN WE TALKED ABOUT THIS EARLIER, LIVE STREAMING WAS A POSSIBILITY OF DOING IT IN-HOUSE AND NOT USING THE UNIVERSITY. DELAWARE. UM, WE DIDN'T KNOW. I KNOW THE QUESTION CAME UP WOULD WHETHER OR NOT THEY WOULD ALLOW US TO DO THAT. AND THEN I THINK... 
          THE CONCLUSION WAS THAT THEY WOULD ALLOW US TO DO THAT. 
          THEY TOLD US THEY WOULD. SO, YEAH. DR. FOY, MR. RICKENS, DO YOU HAVE MORE INFORMATION ON THAT? WHEN I SPOKE TO THE CONTRACTORS THAT DO IT, IT'S POSSIBLE, BUT IT'S A LOT MORE COMPLICATED THAN JUST PARKING UP A CAMERA, RIGHT, BECAUSE THEY HAVE CERTAIN RESTRICTIONS ON WHAT YOU MAY OR MAY NOT DO. BASED UPON THE EQUIPMENT THAT THEY HAVE, THE NETWORK THAT THEY HAVE, AND THINGS ALONG THAT LINES, WHICH AT THIS POINT. GOING WITH A CONTRACTOR THAT ALREADY IS EXPERIENCED IN DOING IT AND CAN ROLL WITH IT AND BRING OUT ALL THE EQUIPMENT, THREE CAMERAS. MULTIPLE CAMERA ANGLES, THOSE KINDS OF THINGS. YEAH, THEY HAVE ALL THE EQUIPMENT IN PLAY TO REALLY PUT ON A TRULY PROFESSIONAL THING, OUTSIDE OF US. BRINGING IN A LITTLE TINY CAMCORDER AND DOING IT. IT WOULDN'T DO THE GRADUATION JUSTICE, TO BE HONEST. GOTCHA. SO THE NEXT QUESTION THAT WOULD BE, THIS IS A WAY SIDEBAR? BACK TO GRADUATIONS, BEING AT THE UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE. 
          BUT I'M GOING TO DO IT ANYWAY. DO WE KNOW WHAT OUR NEW TOTAL COST IS PER GRADUATION? NOW, KNOWING THAT THAT'S HAPPENING, WHICH CHANGES WHAT WE ORIGINALLY THOUGHT IT WOULD BE IF WE'RE GOING TO BE DOING LIVE STREAMING? AND WHY DO WE NEED LIVE STREAMING IF WE NOW HAVE A FACILITY THAT HANDLES MORE PEOPLE? THAT WAS THE POINT OF THE BIGGER FACILITY. SO WHY MORE EXPENSE? WELL, I MEAN, THAT'S A CHOICE. THAT'S A CHOICE, YOU KNOW, IF YOU WANT IT TO BE ACCESSIBLE TO EVERYBODY. AND IF YOU DO, THEN, YOU KNOW, CLEARLY IT COMES WITH A PRICE OF A COUPLE THOUSAND DOLLARS PER SCHOOL. THAT NUMBER ALSO HAS BOHEMIA MANOR IN THERE. 
          THAT INCLUDES ALL SCHOOLS, WHEREAS RIGHT NOW WE DON'T. 
          AGAIN, KEEPING IN MIND, THIS WOULD BE FOR JUNE OF 27, NOT THIS GRADUATION, THIS FOLLOWING GRADUATION, RIGHT? AND SO, YEAH, THESE ARE THINGS TO CONSIDER. 
          AND IF I COULD ADD ONE REAL QUICK THING, AND THEN I DO WANT TO COME BACK TO THAT, MR. FERDINANDO, IS THAT AS YOU LOOK AT THESE SCHOOL BREAKDOWNS, MS. SOPA MENTIONED THAT WE TYPICALLY ALLOT $63 PER STUDENT, AS WHAT WE CALL THE PPA PER PUPIL ALLOTMENT. 
          SCHOOLS HISTORICALLY HAVE BEEN ABLE TO KIND OF SQUIRREL THAT MONEY AWAY, AND IF THEY HAVE EXTRA, THEY KIND OF CARRY IT. WE'RE TO THE POINT NOW, WE PROBABLY HAVE UPWARDS OF A HALF MILLION DOLLARS OF CARRYOVER, WHAT WE CALL. 
          THAT IS TECHNICALLY OUR REVENUE, SO THAT THERE HAS BEEN SOME DISCUSSION ABOUT PULLING BACK ON THAT AND PUTTING THAT TOWARDS MAKING THE ENSUING SCHOOL YEAR WORK. SO IT'S ASSIGNED IN THE FUND BALANCE EVERY YEAR. 
          SO IF YOU LOOK IN THE FUND BALANCE AT OUR ASSIGNED NUMBERS, IT'S $400 AND SOME THOUSAND DOLLARS. 
          AND SO, BASICALLY, 
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IT'S THE PPA. THE REASON THAT STARTED WAS THERE WAS A TIME WHEN EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS HAD BUDGETS FOR THINGS, AND IT WAS SORT OF ON AN AS-NEEDED BASIS. YOU KNOW, HEY, I NEED KIDNEY-SHAPED TABLES. 
          CAN YOU HAVE ANY MONEY FOR THOSE? AND INSTEAD, IT WAS DETERMINED TO LET SCHOOLS CARRY OVER TO SAVE FOR THINGS THAT THEY MIGHT NEED. SO MAYBE IF THEY DIDN'T SPEND ALL THEIR MONEY THIS YEAR, INSTEAD OF SPENDING IT ALL DOWN BUYING PAPER, THEY COULD SAVE SOME OF IT FOR NEXT YEAR. AND MAYBE BUY A SMART BOARD OR SAVE UP FOR SOME OF THE MORE EXPENSIVE THINGS. 
          BUT THAT NUMBER SEEMS TO STAY PRETTY MUCH THE SAME. 
          YOU KNOW, YOU HAVE YOUR SCHOOLS WITH THE VERY SMALL POPULATION, SCHOOLS WHO DON'T RECEIVE COP FUNDING OR TITLE I. THEY TEND TO USE THEIR PPA. BUT SOME OF THE OTHER SCHOOLS, WITH ALL THE FUNDING SOURCES, DOESN'T ALWAYS GET UTILIZED. 
          THE OTHER PIECE IN THIS EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FOR HIGH SCHOOL THAT YOU'LL SEE IS. 
          ORIGINALLY, WE HAD PROPOSED TO EXPAND THE ECA PROGRAM TO NORTHEAST HIGH SCHOOL. 
          AT THE COST OF $155,000. PLUS TRANSPORTATION THAT WAS ON THE TRANSPORTATION LINE. 
          AND WE ARE RECOMMENDING AT THIS POINT THAT THAT WOULD BE SOMETHING THAT WOULD BE CUT AT THIS POINT. THE SEVERAL FOLLOWING LINES ARE THE PPA FOR OUR FIVE HIGH SCHOOLS. AND SOME STAFF RECOGNITION AS YOU GO TO THE CECIL COUNTY SCHOOL OF TECHNOLOGY. THE SCHOOL OF TECHNOLOGY DOESN'T HAVE A PPA LIKE THE OTHER SCHOOLS. THEY HAVE THEIR SUPPLY BUDGETS ALL THROUGH THE CTE BUDGET. SO ALL OF THEIR DEPARTMENTS THERE, ALL THEIR SUPPLIES ARE INCLUDED IN DR. HANDLER'S BUDGET. 
          THAT'S WHY YOU DON'T SEE THAT HERE. THE NEXT THING THAT YOU SEE TOWARD THE BOTTOM OF... 
          PAGE 49 IS INSURANCE RECOVERY. 
          AND SO INSURANCE RECOVERY, WHENEVER WE HAVE A CLAIM, WE NEED TO START REPAIRING AND REPLACING THINGS RIGHT AWAY BEFORE WE GET REIMBURSED FROM MABE. AND SO THIS GIVES US A BUDGET TO START. IT'LL ALWAYS BE REIMBURSED. SO AT THE END OF THE YEAR, THERE SHOULD NEVER BE WHERE WE HAVE ACTUALLY PAID OUT OF THIS ACCOUNT BECAUSE WE GET REIMBURSED. BUT WE HAVE TO START WITH A BUDGET SO THAT WE CAN START TO DO SOME OF THOSE THINGS. AND THEN INDIRECT FEES, I KNOW THIS WAS MENTIONED IN OUR LAST MEETING, SO WE ARE ABLE TO CHARGE THE GRANTS FOR THE ADMINISTRATIVE WORK THAT WE DO, AND THEN THIS BECOMES LIKE AN OFFSETTING FEE FOR OUR BUDGET. TO COVER THE RESOURCES THAT WE PROVIDE THROUGH BUSINESS SERVICES, HUMAN RESOURCES, AND SOME OF OUR ADMINISTRATIVE DEPARTMENTS. 
          AND THEN AFTER THAT, YOU SEE THE 9999. SO THIS GOES BACK TO ANOTHER REASON WHY WE HAVE THESE ROLL-UP CODES. AND SO WE'VE TAKEN ALL OF OUR FULL-TIME EMPLOYEES AND WE'VE PULLED ALL THEIR SALARIES OUT OF ALL THOSE OTHER DEPARTMENTS, AND WE KEEP THEM SEPARATELY HERE. THAT WAY, NOBODY CAN TRANSFER MONEY IN OR OUT, MOVE MONEY AROUND, EXCEPT THE DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS SERVICES. IT REALLY ESTABLISHES AND PROTECTS YOUR FTE SALARIES AND KEEPS THEM SEPARATE. THAT'S THE OTHER REASON. WE HAVE FIXED CHARGES SEPARATE, TOO, SEPARATE FROM THE HUMAN RESOURCES BUDGET. SO AGAIN, THIS IS JUST BASED ON THE STAFFING THAT WE HAVE AT THIS POINT IN TIME. AND SO THIS JUST REFLECTS THE TYPES OF BY STATE, CATEGORY AND BY OBJECT. IT JUST REPRESENTS THOSE AT THIS TIME. AND AGAIN, THIS WILL CHANGE AS STAFFING MAY CHANGE. AND THAT BRINGS US TO THE VERY END, AT THE MIDDLE OF PAGE 50. SO YOU CAN SEE HERE THAT IN TOTAL, THIS IS A PROPOSED SALARY AND FIXED CHARGES REDUCTIONS, AND THIS WAS MENTIONED AT THE BEGINNING WITH DR. 
          LAWSON, THAT IF WE MAKE $7.5 MILLION IN POSITION REDUCTIONS, POSITIONS AND FIXED CHARGES, OUR TOTAL REDUCTIONS WILL BE $11.7 MILLION, BECAUSE WE'VE JUST SHARED ABOUT $4.2 MILLION OF THEM HERE, AND THAT WILL BALANCE THE BUDGET THE WAY IT'S PRESENTED HERE. THAT MEANS USING $3 MILLION IN OPEB, $5 MILLION IN FUND BALANCE, AND THE COUNTY GOVERNMENT GIVING US $10 MILLION. 
          OVER WHAT THEY'RE GIVING US IN FY26. THAT WOULD PRESENT A BALANCED BUDGET. SO LET ME TRY TO WRAP UP WITH THIS THOUGHT AND THEN OBVIOUSLY OPEN IT UP FOR JUST DISCUSSION AND DIALOGUE, WHICH REALLY DOES GUIDE A LOT OF WHAT WE DO. SO MY GOAL AS A SUPERINTENDENT IS TO PREPARE A BUDGET THAT I THINK WE CAN SUPPORT. THE SCHOOL SYSTEM TO INCLUDE EVERYTHING, TEACHERS, KIDS, FAMILIES. 
          FIXED CHARGES, PROGRAMS, AND TO CRAFT A BUDGET THAT BALANCES, RIGHT, THAT I KNOW THE REVENUES AND THE EXPENDITURES WILL MEET, AND THEN TO GET THREE OF YOU TO APPROVE IT. IT'S REALLY WHAT IT COMES DOWN TO. BECAUSE IF YOU THINK ABOUT IT, AND I'VE SEEN BOARDS WRESTLE WITH THIS IN SOME OF THE MORE, YOU KNOW, HEATED RHETORIC THAT GOES ON 
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AT SCHOOL BOARD MEETINGS. 
          HONESTLY, WE TEND TO BE IMMUNE FROM THAT A LITTLE BIT AT THE MOMENT. WE COULD SAY TO YOU, OKAY, WE'RE TALKING $40,000 NEXT YEAR FOR CURRICULUM WRITING FOR ELEMENTARY MATHEMATICS. 
          AND AS HE SAYS, YOU KNOW WHAT, IT NEEDS TO BE 60. AS HOLLY SAYS, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, IT NEEDS TO BE 20. SO THAT IF WE ALL, IF EVERYBODY IN THIS ROOM WALKED OUT AND SAID, I'M GOING TO TRY TO CREATE A $275 MILLION BUDGET FOR CCPS, EVERY ONE OF US WOULD COME BACK WITH SOMETHING DIFFERENT. MY CHALLENGE IS, CAN I PRESENT TO YOU SOMETHING THAT YOU WILL SUPPORT? IDEALLY, FIVE TO NOTHING. THAT'S KIND OF WHAT I WANT. 
          BUT KNOWING THAT 80% OF OUR COSTS ARE PEOPLE AND THAT 20% ARE NOT PEOPLE. AND WHEN YOU TRY TO SQUARE, WHEN YOU TRY TO SUPPORT THE 80% WITH JUST 20%, IT'S ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE. 20% IS NOT ENOUGH TO MAKE UP. SO, IN A WAY, YOU ALMOST HAVE TO CONCEDE THAT THE 80%, YOU KNOW, IT'S THE OLD SAYING, YOU KNOW, WHY DO YOU ROB BANKS? WELL, IT'S BECAUSE WHERE THE MONEY IS. WELL, WHY DO YOU LOOK TO REDUCE POSITION? WELL, BECAUSE THAT'S WHERE THE FUNDING IS. THAT'S WHERE, YOU KNOW, THE COST IS. AND SO THAT'S MY GOAL, IS FOR US TO HAVE CONVERSATION, YOU ALL, TO GIVE US MORE DIRECTION. 
          IN THE MEANTIME, WE ARE GOING TO HAVE CONTINUED DISCUSSION WITH THE COUNTY, AND THEN ONE WEEK FROM TOMORROW, WE'LL HAVE YOU ONE STEP CLOSER TO A BALANCED BUDGET THAT, YOU KNOW, HOPEFULLY YOU CAN LIVE WITH. 
          AND WITH THAT, ANY DISCUSSION AND QUESTIONS? CAN YOU TALK TO US A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT THE POSITIONS, HOW MANY, WHERE YOU'RE LOOKING? SO IT WAS DISCUSSED EARLY ON. RIGHT NOW, THESE ARE ROUGH NUMBERS. 63% OF OUR WORKFORCE COMES OUT OF THE TRIPLE CTA. I DID SEE THAT. 
          YOU CAUGHT THAT PART. YEAH, I WAS HERE. I DID SEE THAT. 
          BUT WHEN YOU SAY TRIPLE CTA, THAT COULD MEAN A LOT OF DIFFERENT THINGS. A LOT OF DIFFERENT, YOU KNOW, ARE WE TALKING ABOUT TAKING CLASSROOMS OUT? THERE WILL BE A DISPROPORTIONATE PAIN TO NON-POVERTY SCHOOLS. I'M JUST MAKING IT REAL SIMPLE AND BLUNT. KEN MOORE WILL FEEL THE PAIN MORE THAN WILL A. 
          THOMPSON BECAUSE OF FREE REDUCED LUNCH RATES. 
          AND WHERE FREE REDUCED LUNCH RATES GO, REVENUE STREAMS FROM THE BLUEPRINT GO. THEY FOLLOW. AND SO THAT'S WHAT WE WILL DO. I THINK AS A FUNCTION OF LEADERSHIP IN THE BLUEPRINT RIGHT NOW, I THINK I, WE, HAVE A RESPONSIBILITY TO TAKE A REAL HARD LOOK AT HOW WE'RE STAFFING THE SCHOOL SYSTEM THROUGH ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS. NOW, MIND YOU, IT'S ONLY 7% OF THE WORKFORCE. SO YOU'RE NOT GOING TO BALANCE 93% OF YOUR BUDGET ON THE BACKS OF 7%. BUT YOU CAN PROBABLY TAKE A HARD LOOK AT SOME THINGS AND TRY TO DO SOME THINGS DIFFERENTLY COMPARED TO WHAT WE'VE BEEN DOING HISTORICALLY. AND WE'VE ALREADY HAD IN-DEPTH DISCUSSIONS ABOUT THAT. WE'RE PREPARED TO MOVE FORWARD. 
          AND, AGAIN, ONCE WE GET FINAL APPROVAL FROM THE BOARD, WE WILL GO AHEAD AND IMPLEMENT ANY KIND OF STAFF REDUCTION PLAN THAT WOULD HAVE TO HAPPEN. AND I'D BE GLAD TO ANSWER AT A MORE GRANULAR LEVEL IF, DOES THAT MAKE SENSE? I MEAN, YES, I'LL STOP THERE FOR A LITTLE BIT. SO IS IT FAIR TO SAY, THEN, THAT OUR NON, OUR FARM SCHOOLS TEND TO HAVE MORE STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES? YEAH, ABSOLUTELY. SO, I MEAN, THEY GO HAND IN HAND IN TERMS OF, I MEAN, SO WE KEEP TALKING ABOUT FARMS. DISABILITY RATES COINCIDE WITH POVERTY RATES, ALWAYS HAVE, YEAH. FAMILIES WITH. STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES ARE MORE LIKELY TO BE LOW-INCOME FAMILIES. 
          BUT I THINK THAT'S A GOOD POINT TO MAKE BECAUSE THEY THINK... 
          NO DOUBT, THEY GO HAND IN HAND. I MEAN, WE KEEP TALKING ABOUT POVERTY, POVERTY, FARMS, FARMS, BUT IT ALSO TIES INTO STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES. IT'S ALL THE SPECIAL POPULATIONS, SO ANYTHING THAT'S A SPECIAL POPULATION. THROUGH BLUEPRINT, THOSE WOULD BE THE LAST PLACES TO MAKE THE CUTS BECAUSE WE HAVE TO MEET MINIMUMS. AND EVEN THOUGH WE DON'T HAVE TO MEET THE 75-25 HAS BEEN PUSHED OFF A YEAR, THERE'S STILL A GOAL THAT WE HAVE TO MEET. WE HAVE TO GET TO 50% OF THE DIFFERENCE, IF YOU REMEMBER THAT BACK AT SCHAEFER'S IN THE SUMMER. SO THAT HASN'T CHANGED. I SAID THIS EARLIER, AND I ALSO SAID IT YESTERDAY WITH THE LEADERSHIP TEAM. 
          UNDERSTAND, THIS IS BY DESIGN. THIS IS BY DESIGN. 
          WE ARE SEEING A MUCH MORE ASSERTIVE, AGGRESSIVE STATE FOOTPRINT IN THE WORLD OF CURRICULUM AND INSTRUCTION. 
          SO THAT THEIR THINKING IS, IS THAT THEY WANT TO TAKE THE LEAD ON THESE CURRICULAR ISSUES, AS OPPOSED TO THE LEA TAKING. 
          AND SO THEN I SAY, WELL, OK, NONE OF OUR. THE ADMINISTRATION IS REALLY SUPPORTED THROUGH ANY BLUEPRINT FUNDING. 
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THERE'S A HERE AND THERE KIND OF THING, BUT GENERALLY SPEAKING, IT'S NOT. AND WITH THE STATE'S MUCH MORE AGGRESSIVE APPROACH TO THIS, YOU JUST CAN'T HELP BUT SURMISE THAT. THAT'S THE INTENT HERE. ARE WE AT THE POSITION YET, THE PLACE WHERE WE WOULD HAVE TO MOVE SOME OF OUR HIGHER DOLLAR SIGN TEACHERS' POSITIONS TO? NO, AT THIS POINT. WE'RE NOT THERE. THE SALARIES LISTED ONLINE, 9999, THE 155 MILLION AT THE, I'M SORRY, THE 164,709, IS THAT WHERE WE ARE WITH POSITIONS TODAY, INCLUDING ALL OF THEM? THAT'S ALL OF OUR CURRENT POSITIONS, INCLUDING THE ONES WE ADDED DURING THE YEAR, AND THAT ONE ADDITIONAL JROTC POSITION, THAT'S HALF. IN UNRESTRICTED BUDGET AND HALF, SO HALF OF THAT IS IN THERE, AND THAT'S THIS. IS ALL BASED ON NEXT YEAR SALARIES, SO WE WILL CLEARLY GO INTO NEXT YEAR WITH FEWER FTES. THAT'S A CERTAINTY IN TERMS OF WHAT NEW POSITIONS WE HAVE. JROTC IS A HALF, THAT'S THE ONLY ONE WE ADDED FOR FY, 27. EVERYTHING ELSE IS JUST WHAT WE HAVE RIGHT NOW, INCLUDING WHAT WE ADDED THIS YEAR, SO JROTC PROGRAM, IT HAS TO HAVE TWO PEOPLE. WE HAVE ONE ALREADY. THE SECOND ONE IS COMING ON BOARD AS WE GET MORE KIDS AT ELKTON HIGH SCHOOL. AND THEN THE DEAL IS THE ARMY COVERS HALF AND WE COVER HALF. SO WE'RE MEETING OUR RESPONSIBILITY BY PICKING UP HALF OF THE SECOND PERSON. AND IS THIS THE FINAL YEAR OF OUR 5.5% INCREASE? YES, 3.75%. 3.75%. CORRECT. .8. 
          WILL BE 3.75%. I HAVE NOT STRESSED THAT ENOUGH. OKAY. 
          THANK YOU. YES, THIS IS OUR LAST YEAR OF 3.75%. THEN WE WILL AT LEAST SEE SALARY PROJECTIONS DECREASE. COMPARED TO WHAT WE'RE USED TO FOR THE LAST FIVE YEARS. IS IT 3.75? 3.75, YEAH. OH, BECAUSE THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN 26 AND, OKAY, IT'S 5.5% BECAUSE WE ADDED POSITIONS. I WAS DOING THE MATH BETWEEN THE TWO. I WAS JUST DOING THE MATH BETWEEN THE APPROVED BUDGET OF 155 AND 26 AND THE NEW 164 REQUEST. THAT WAS INCLUDING THE POSITIONS AS WELL. SO KEEP IN MIND THAT CESPA WAS 5%. AND EVERYBODY ELSE WAS 3.75, SO THERE'S A LITTLE BIT OF A MIX THERE. GOTCHA. AND THIS 3.75 GETS US TO WHERE WE NEED TO BE WITH TEACHERS FOR FY27 AT $60,000 FOR STEP 1. 
          AFTER THAT, WE WOULD HAVE TO NEGOTIATE ANY SALARY INCREASES. 
          WITH HISTORY BEING THE, YOU KNOW, THE HISTORY, WHAT IS IT, PAST BEING PRELUDE, IS THAT WE HAVE NEVER GIVEN 3.75% COLA, NOT SINCE 2009, WHEN I ARRIVED TO CECIL. IT HAD ALWAYS BEEN A RELATIVELY LOW 1819, OR CPIU, WHATEVER IS LOWER. IT HAD BEEN THAT FOR SEVERAL YEARS BEFORE BLUEPRINT CAME ON. 
          OVER THE YEARS, WE'VE OFTEN HEARD THAT THE SCHOOL SYSTEM SHOULD USE THE FUND BALANCE TO PAY FOR FTES. 
          TO YOUR CREDIT, THIS YEAR YOU DID. YOU SAW A NEED AND YOU HIRED NEARLY 40 FTES. THAT DIDN'T NEED OUR APPROVAL, BUT I SUPPORTED THAT. IT DID NEED OUR APPROVAL. YOU VOTED ON IT. IT DID NEED OUR APPROVAL. I WAS REMEMBERING WHEN WE PRESENTED IT. I'M SORRY. I SUPPORT IT STILL. 
          OF COURSE, THAT'S NOT SUSTAINABLE. 
          AT THE TIME, I'D ASKED, WOULD THESE, AND YOU CAVEATED. THE ANSWER, WOULD THESE POSITIONS, WILL YOU BE ABLE TO SUSTAIN THESE POSITIONS IN FUTURE BUDGETS? AT THE TIME, YOU HAD SAID, WELL, IT DEPENDS WHAT THE BUDGETS ARE. HOWEVER, WITH THE ONES YOU HIRED, YOU ASSUMED THAT ATTRITION WOULD MAKE IT SUCH THAT THE FEW PEOPLE HIRED SINCE THE BEGINNING OF THIS SCHOOL YEAR. WOULD STILL HAVE A JOB. IT MAY NOT BE IN THE SAME ROLE OR BUILDING THEY CURRENTLY ARE IN, BUT WITH WHAT YOU'VE PRESENTED US TODAY, AND WITH KNOWN ATTRITION RATES, DO YOU THINK THAT EVERYONE THAT IS NOT RETIRING OR RESIGNING WILL STILL HAVE A JOB? OR WILL THERE BE A REDUCTION IN FORCE? SO I WILL TAKE A STAB AND I INVITE MY COLLEAGUES TO WEIGH IN IF THEY THINK I MISSED ANYTHING. 
          MY GOAL IS FOR, YES, THAT TO HAPPEN. THAT WE WOULD BE ABLE TO ATTRITE ENOUGH POSITIONS TO GET US WHERE WE NEED TO BE. SO THAT'S THERE. IS THIS SUSTAINABLE, GIVEN THE CURRENT REVENUES AND THE EXPECTED REVENUES THROUGH HOUSE BILL 1300? THE ANSWER TO THAT IS NO, BECAUSE, KEEP IN MIND, WE'RE USING $5 MILLION 
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OF FUND BALANCE AND $3 MILLION OUT OF OPEB JUST TO MAKE THIS GO. IF YOU DON'T KNOW, RETIREE HEALTH CARE IS TYPICALLY ABOUT A $33.5 MILLION ANNUAL THING. ANYWAY, SO YEAH, SO I DO HAVE SOME CONCERNS, AND IT IS BECAUSE OF THAT THAT MAKES ME ALL THE MORE CONVINCED THAT WE NEED TO COMPLETELY RESTRUCTURE OUR ADMINISTRATIVE STAFFING. FOR THIS NEW AND IMPROVED APPROACH TO PUBLIC EDUCATION IN MARYLAND. IT DOES NOT MEAN I AGREE WITH IT. IN FACT, I DISAGREE. BUT, THAT SAID, IT'S THE LAW, AND OUR FUNDING IS BEING DOLED OUT IN SUCH A WAY THAT I THINK THIS... LISTEN, IF OUR CLASSROOMS ARE GOING TO GET TIGHT, AND IT SEEMS THAT WAY, ESPECIALLY IN YOUR MORE AFFLUENT SCHOOLS, WE, THE ADMINISTRATION, HAS A RESPONSIBILITY TO REFLECT THAT IN HOW WE DOLE OUT ADMINISTRATIVE ASSIGNMENTS. 
          AND I THINK YOU WILL SEE A PRETTY AGGRESSIVE APPROACH WITH THAT IN THE COMING WEEKS. 
          BUT ONCE WE GET TO A POINT WHERE WE KNOW WHAT THE COUNTY REVENUE IS GOING TO BE, THEN WE WILL GO AHEAD AND PRESENT YOU WITH A BALANCED BUDGET, AND IT WILL HAVE CUTS. AND AT THAT POINT, WE WOULD BE WILLING TO SAY IT'S GOING TO REQUIRE THIS MANY TEACHING POSITIONS, THIS MANY BUILDING ADMINISTRATOR POSITIONS, AND SO ON. 
          BUT WHAT I WOULD SAY TO YOU IS THAT THE THINGS WE'RE TALKING ABOUT DOING NOW, AND I'M TRYING TO BE SPECIFIC. I WANT TO BE NEBULOUS, BUT WE JUST DON'T KNOW AT THE MOMENT. 
          BUT THE THINGS WE'RE TALKING ABOUT NOW ARE LIKELY GOING TO BE IN PLACE FOR THE NEXT FIVE YEARS, 10 YEARS, AND IT HAS TO HAPPEN. 
          IT'S JUST A QUESTION OF WHETHER OR NOT WE WANT TO DO IT NOW. YEAH, JUST IN THE WEEDS, BUT THIS YEAR. 
          THERE ARE 10 IN-HOUSE CCPS BUS DRIVERS. NEXT YEAR, THERE'S EIGHT. AND IF YOU'RE A BUS DRIVER WATCHING THIS, I'M NOT TRYING TO ELIMINATE YOUR POSITION, BUT I'M JUST ASKING, WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A CCPS BUS DRIVER AND A CONTRACTED BUS DRIVER, WHICH IS THE MAJORITY OF THEM? I'LL PREFACE THIS BEFORE, DR. 
          HELM JUMPS IN. WE ARE A SYSTEM THAT, GENERALLY SPEAKING, USES BUS CONTRACTORS AS A RULE, PROBABLY TO 90%, 95% OF OUR ROUTES. I'VE BEEN DOING THIS A LONG TIME NOW, EVERYBODY KNOWS. I'VE BEEN IN SYSTEMS WHERE I CAN'T BELIEVE. 
          WE HAVE OUR OWN BUS DRIVERS THAT'S CONTRACTED OUT, AND THEN IN SYSTEMS THAT WE NEED TO HIRE OUR OWN BUS DRIVERS. I'VE SEEN IT BOTH WAYS. IT HAS THEIR PLUSES AND MINUSES, BUT WE DO HAVE A SMALL SLIVER OF DRIVERS THAT WE EMPLOY FOR DR. HELM. SO, IN CECIL COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS, WE CURRENTLY HAVE 138 BUS ROUTES THAT WE RUN EVERY DAY. 131 OF THEM, WE CONTRACT OUT TO 10 CONTRACTORS. A CONTRACTOR IS SIMPLY A COMPANY THAT RUNS A SCHOOL BUS COMPANY. THE SEVEN ROUTES THAT WE RUN ARE ALL SPECIAL EDUCATION ROUTES, SO WE RUN SPECIALIZED ROUTES. 
          WE HAVE SEVEN BUS DRIVERS FOR THOSE ROUTES, AND THEN WE RUN THREE ALTERNATIVE SCHOOL VEHICLES. WHICH ARE BASICALLY SUVS. ONE IS OUT OF THE COUNTY EVERY DAY, ANOTHER SPECIALIZED RUN, AND TWO SUPPORT SPECIAL NEEDS STUDENTS AS WELL AS HOMELESS STUDENTS. THE PRIMARY REASON FOR DOING THAT, HONESTLY, IS WHEN YOU DEAL WITH CONTRACTORS, YOU KNOW, THE MONEY THAT YOU SAW IN THE BUDGET, THE VAST MAJORITY OF THAT WE PAY TO THOSE CONTRACTORS, AND IT'S THEIR RESPONSIBILITY TO PAY THEIR EMPLOYEES, THEIR DRIVERS, THEIR ASSISTANTS. 
          THEIR COSTS FOR THEIR BUSES AND SO FORTH. 
          SO THAT'S OUR SYSTEM, AND THAT'S THE VAST MAJORITY OF SYSTEMS IN THE STATE OF MARYLAND. AND IF I MAY, I'LL ASK DR. HELM TO ADDRESS, WE TOOK, A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO, WE ADDED ALTERNATE VEHICLES TO OUR FLEET. HERE AT 4 HAD NOT HAD THOSE, BUT WHAT HAPPENED WITH THAT IS WE WOULD THEN REMOVE ROUTES FROM CONTRACTORS. AND IF YOU COULD, SPEAK TO THE SAVINGS. 
          SO WE WOULD TAKE A ROUTE FROM... A CONTRACTOR TO SAY THAT'S GOING TO BALTIMORE OR GOING DOWN INTO KENT COUNTY SOMEWHERE, AND WE REPLACE IT WITH OUR OWN VEHICLE AND DRIVER. DR. BUCK, YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT THE VANS? CORRECT. 
          OKAY. YES, ALTERNATE VEHICLES, VANS THAT WE UTILIZE, BUT APPROXIMATELY THE SAVINGS WITH EACH OF THOSE. SO WE RUN FOUR ROUTES EVERY DAY OUT OF THE COUNTY THAT RUN WEST. 
          ONE GOES TO THE MIDDLE OF HARFORD COUNTY, AND THE OTHER THREE GO TO BALTIMORE COUNTY. 
          THEY COST US ROUGHLY $500,000. $550,000 A YEAR TOTAL, THE FOUR ROUTES DO. WE WERE ALSO RUNNING ONE DOWN TO THE BENEDICTINE SCHOOL THAT COST US APPROXIMATELY $130,000. WE TOOK... THAT ROUTE AWAY FROM A CONTRACTOR AND PUT AN 
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SUV ON IT, AND WE'RE ROUGHLY SAVING $70,000 TO $80,000 A YEAR. 
          DR. HELM, ABOUT HOW MANY STUDENTS ARE WE MOVING TO BALTIMORE COUNTY, HARFORD COUNTY, AND BENEDICTINE? EIGHT TO NINE TOTAL FOR THOSE FIVE RUNS. NOW IT IS, AND DR. MILLER COULD SPEAK TO THIS, TOO, IT IS FLUENT. 
          YOU KNOW, WE DO HAVE STUDENTS THAT COME AND GO, BUT GENERICALLY, YOU KNOW, THAT $650,000 SUPPORTS EIGHT TO NINE STUDENTS. SO OUR IN-HOUSE BUS DRIVERS, I THINK I UNDERSTAND, AND THEY'RE NOT NECESSARILY DRIVING THE BIG YELLOW BUS, BUT THEY ARE OPERATING VEHICLES THAT ARE TRANSPORTING SPECIAL NEEDS STUDENTS TO OUT-OF-COUNTY FACILITIES THAT WE DON'T HAVE THE CAPABILITIES FOR? SO SEVEN OF OUR DRIVERS DRIVE BIG YELLOW BUSES, AND THEY DO STAY IN COUNTY. THOSE DO. THE ONES THAT DRIVE OUR SUVS. GO OUT OF THE COUNTY OR SUPPORT LIKE OUR HOMELESS STUDENTS, WHO COULD BE ANYWHERE. YOU KNOW, WE GO TO OXFORD, WE GO TO BEL AIR, WE GO TO NEW CASTLE COUNTY, WE GO TO KENT COUNTY TO PICK THOSE STUDENTS UP. THE BUS ROUTES THAT ARE OUT OF THE COUNTY ARE CURRENTLY SUPPORTED BY BUS CONTRACTORS. I WANTED TO ADDRESS THE REDUCTION IN BUS DRIVERS. THAT WAS ACTUALLY, IF YOU SEE A NEGATIVE 2 FOR BUS DRIVERS, YOU SEE A POSITIVE 2 FOR OTHER PROFESSIONALS, 0012. 
          TWO OF THEM WERE RECLASSIFIED BECAUSE THEY PICKED UP EXTRA RESPONSIBILITIES WITH THE RETIREMENT OF THE SUPERVISOR IN TRANSPORTATION, AND SO THEY WERE RECLASSIFIED. 
          SO, I BELIEVE, ARE THEY STILL DRIVING AS WELL AND TRAINING? SO THOSE TWO POSITIONS WERE TECHNICALLY WHAT WE CALL BUS DRIVER TRAINERS, OKAY? SO THEY WERE RECLASSIFIED TO. 
          TRANSPORTATION GENERALISTS, SO THEY ARE STILL USED AS SUBSTITUTES, THEY'RE STILL USED AS DRIVER TRAINERS, BUT THEY'RE ALSO NOW SERVE IN SUPERVISOR ROLES. THEY MANAGE ALL OF THE CCPS DRIVERS, AND THEY'RE ACTUALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR DOING THE EVALUATIONS FOR ALL OF THE BUS DRIVERS IN CECIL COUNTY. AND THAT'S BEEN A HISTORY OF OURS FOR PROBABLY THE LAST FIVE TO TEN YEARS, THAT IF WE HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO COLLAPSE A POSITION. 
          FOR INSTANCE, IF YOU COLLAPSE MY POSITION, DON'T GET ANY IDEAS, AND YOU GAVE A LITTLE EXTRA TO MS. SOPA, DR. HAMMER, DR. 
          BUCKLEY, AND GIVE THEM EACH A LITTLE BUMP IN PAY, BUT DON'T FILL MY POSITION, IT'S A SAVINGS. PROBABLY A POOR EXAMPLE THERE, GIVEN THE TIMING OF ALL THINGS. BUT IT'S BEEN A PRETTY CONSISTENT PRACTICE OF OURS. WE WOULD REDUCE A POSITION ALTOGETHER AND THEN GIVE THESE TWO A LITTLE BIT OF A BUMP TO COVER HIS JOB. 
          AND WE'VE BEEN DOING THAT FOR A WHILE NOW. STAYING ON BUS IS JUST, THE BUS COMPANIES THAT WE CONTRACT, THEY ONLY DO OUR BUSING, CORRECT? OR DO THEY HAVE A BUSING, ARE THEY DOING SOMETHING ELSE? SO THE VAST MAJORITY OF OUR BUS CONTRACTORS ONLY DO OUR BUSING. 
          IN THE STATE OF MARYLAND, BUS CONTRACTORS ARE PERMITTED TO HAVE WHAT THEY CALL CHARTER BUSES. OKAY, SO THAT MEANS THAT THEY CAN DO OTHER THINGS, BUT THOSE BUSES HAVE TO GET SPECIFIC LICENSES. AND WHEN THEY'RE DOING CHARTER BUSINESS... THOSE BUSES CANNOT SAY CECIL COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS ON THE SIDE. SO IF YOU SEE A YELLOW BUS THAT LOOKS LIKE IT HAS A MAGNET ON THE SIDE OF IT. THAT'S BLOCKING OUT THE CECIL COUNTY PART, IT PROBABLY HAS A CHARTER TAG. 
          AND THEY'RE DOING OTHER THINGS. 
          WE ONLY HAVE TWO OF OUR CONTRACTORS THAT ARE LICENSED TO DO THAT, MARSHALL BUS AND L.C. DAVIS BUS. AND THE REASON WE USE CONTRACTORS VERSUS MANAGING IT IN-HOUSE IS, WHAT I WAS THINKING IS, TRASH SERVICES, WE... CONTRACT THAT OUT, BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT THEY DO, AND THEY DO TRASH SERVICES FOR THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE. IT'S WHAT THEY KNOW. THEY'RE EXPERTS AT THAT. BUSSING, IF IT'S JUST WHY ISN'T THE PERSON RUNNING THE BUS COMPANY JUST AN EMPLOYEE OF THE COMPANY, AND THEN IT'S OUR BUSES. 
          INSTEAD OF SOMEBODY ELSE MAKING PROFIT AND US KEEPING THAT PROFIT IN-HOUSE? IS IT CAPACITY OF JUST TRYING TO MANAGE FIVE BUS COMPANIES, FIVE MANAGERS, AND ALL THOSE BUSES IN-HOUSE? SO I WILL SPEAK FOR MY COLLEAGUES WHO... DO HAVE THEIR OWN TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENTS, THEY WILL TELL YOU. IT'S MORE COST EFFICIENT TO CONTRACT IT OUT SIMPLY BECAUSE YOU'RE PAYING A CONTRACT TO A VENDOR, AS OPPOSED TO PICKING UP. HOWEVER, MANY BUS DRIVERS, ALL OF OUR CONTRACTORS HAVE. LET'S JUST SAY, WOULD YOU SAY 130? SOME ROUTES, CHIP? YOU WOULD BE PICKING UP 174 DRIVERS COUNTING SUBTLETIES. THERE YOU GO. 170 FTES. SO THAT'S WHY. AND SO THOSE 170 FTES UNDER THAT CONTRACT HAS A DIFFERENT PAY SCALE. THEN THEY WOULD HAVE TO HAVE UNDER OUR CONTRACTS. I WILL SAY YES. WELL, YOU WOULD THINK SO. WE HAVE DIFFERENT BENEFITS. I MEAN, I WOULD THINK SO JUST BECAUSE THERE'S STILL AN OWNER OF THAT BUS COMPANY WHO'S MAKING A PROFIT AFTER ALL OF THAT. IF WE COULD HAVE ALL THOSE PEOPLE, THEN THAT PROFIT WOULD STAY IN-HOUSE. ALL THOSE PEOPLE 
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WOULD COST US MORE THAN IT'S COSTING THEM. WE PAY THEM A DRIVER ALLOWANCE, RIGHT? SO THEY PAY THEM. YOU KNOW, IF WE TOOK THEM ONE, THEY WOULD BE FTES, JUST LIKE OUR DRIVERS ARE. SO THEN WE'D BE PAYING THEM BENEFITS. 
          THEY'D BE, YOU KNOW, EMPLOYEES JUST LIKE OURS ARE GETTING PAID 12 MONTHS OUT OF THE YEAR AND SO FORTH. SO IT WOULD BE A BIG DIFFERENCE. BIG MONEY. AND THAT DOESN'T INCLUDE ASSISTANCE. THERE'S 40 ASSISTANCE THAT YOU'D HAVE TO ADD TO THAT NUMBER AS WELL. SO IT COSTS US MORE. 
          TO PAY THOSE PEOPLE, THEN IT'S COSTING THEM TO PAY THOSE PEOPLE. BECAUSE OF OUR PAY SCALE SYSTEM BEING A STATE AND COUNTY. I WOULD ADD IN AS WELL, PROPERTY. WE WOULD HAVE TO HAVE MULTIPLE PROPERTIES THROUGHOUT THE COUNTY RIGHT NOW. IF WE HAD IT CENTRALIZED, SAY, IN THE NORTHEAST AREA, WE WOULD DEADHEAD TO CECILTON AS OPPOSED TO HAVING A CONTRACTOR THAT'S IN CECILTON. SO HIS DEADHEAD IS MUCH SHORTER AND HIS TIME AND COST. COULD YOU EXPLAIN DEADHEAD, PLEASE, DR. BUCK? IT MEANS RUNNING AN EMPTY BUS. 
          AND WITH NOTHING, RIGHT? AND SO, K&B IS ABLE TO GO OUT OF CECILTON, AS OPPOSED TO US GOING OUT OF NORTHEAST. 
          AND PROBABLY ACCUMULATING 25 TO 40 MILES OF JUST RIDING, WHEREAS OPPOSED K&B CAN RUN 10 MILES. AND BE AT THE END OF THE EARTH THERE, AND AT THE END DOWN THERE AND COME BACK WITH STUDENTS. SO AGAIN, YOU KNOW, THERE'S GEOGRAPHIC COST, THERE'S MAINTENANCE COST, THERE'S ALL THOSE OTHER COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH THAT. OTHER QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, THOUGHTS? SO THE WAY I SEE, YOU KNOW, MS. OLSON AND I HAVE BEEN KIND OF STRATEGIZING BEHIND THE SCENES. WE WILL DO OUR BEST TO MINIMIZE NEXT WEDNESDAY NIGHT'S AGENDA SO THAT WE CAN SPEND SOME TIME ON THIS. AND, YOU KNOW, TAKE ANOTHER STEP, YOU KNOW, BETWEEN NOW AND THEN. AND IF YOU HAVE CONVERSATION, GIVE ME A CALL. MISS HEATH AND I OBVIOUSLY TALK ALL THE TIME ABOUT HOW YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEE US PURSUE A DIRECTION IN THE CURRENT BUDGET. AND WE'LL TRY TO MAKE THOSE ADJUSTMENTS. AND THEN SO THAT NEXT WEDNESDAY WE WILL GET ONE STEP CLOSER TO HOME IN THE COMING WEEKS. 
          WE SHOULD GET SOME SORT OF GOOD FAITH NUMBER FROM THE COUNTY. AND THEN WE CAN GO AHEAD AND TRY TO MAKE BEFORE THE END OF FEBRUARY. A BALANCED BUDGET THAT YOU ALL CAN SUPPORT. SORRY, DIDN'T REALIZE YOU WERE WAITING FOR ME. I THOUGHT WE WERE WAITING FOR MR. DAVIS. OH, I'M SORRY. 
          JUST KIDDING. ANY FURTHER COMMENTS? NO? OKAY. THEN MEETING'S ADJOURNED. THANK YOU, GUYS. 118. THANK YOU.
* This transcript was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.