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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Oh, BTW, BOE even approved Taylor's proposed operating budget with adding $10 million more on top of an already record-high operating budget in MCPS history. And by the way, if haven't noticed, the proposed budget for "PLANNING the regional program" will cost $10 million next fiscal year. This is for planning only. I'll write an email to council members to call for disapproval of this $10 million budget.[/quote]

That is not accurate-- please don't email with inaccurate information or you will not have credibility.  The budget increase for the regional programs for this coming year is only a couple million dollars, not $10M.  (It will very likely swell way past that when they actually implement it, but it is not yet.) [/quote]

My bad. Just went on checking the actual numbers. Could you kindly cross-check with me?
I'm looking at the executive summary table here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13G_ub9T6wW2tXU0yCtfWjQqM4ij5e_TxOrclMvoOPzs/edit?gid=252197658#gid=252197658

Looks to me that Item #56 and #57 are direct personnel hires related to the planning of regional programs:
56	Special Education Behavioral Support	6.0000	1,001,166	4	Additional Cross Functional Team positions for behavioral support - 1/Region
57	Regional Programs Support	10.0000	922,815	3 & 9	School based personnel to plan for and support regional program model

So a total of 16 full-time FTE with $2 million cost next year for planning. Is this a correct estimation? I'm now trying to dig out the operating budget estimation that Taylor presented in one of the recent BOE meetings (maybe November?), where his estimated total cost of all regional programs is ~ $10 million/year (including transportation). Planning takes $2 million, and looks like these job functions need to stay in the future. Already 20% of the total cost, and we haven't started to hire a single teacher or bus driver yet. [/quote]

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