Reply to 5/12 County Council Meeting -- Gutting MCPS Budget Request to the Tune of $180M

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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Did they pass the full budget request? I just logged in to watch the live and heard some thing along this line?[/quote]

It's not official until next week but I believe they have finalized their plan and did their "straw vote" to verify they have enough votes-- if I understand correctly, they took $36M from the MCPS capital budget and shifted it to the MCPS operating budget to limit the MCPS operating budget cuts to $36M.

A $36M cut would mean the first two pages of cuts on the document that Taylor sent out earlier this week (assuming Taylor does not make any adjustments to his recommendations on where to cut from, and the Board of Ed does not make any adjustments either), but no cuts from pages 3-5.[/quote]

It's not a cut. It is a lower increase than what they asked for.[/quote]

Yes, but that increase is needed to cover all the things in the budget.  You can’t expect them to plug the employee benefits hole, take on more pension cost from the state, have to implement new requirements for Math and for Blueprint, lose government grants and then still have funding for everything.  Cuts and changes have to come from somewhere.

I saw this every year, the community should list out what it is they are willing to see cut.[/quote]

Then they redo the budget to make what they have work.  [/quote]

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