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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's pretty much public: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OA8HANnsPlM7-xyvfma4H_0nRLQRYaKo/view[/quote]

Thanks so much for sharing.  And it will probably be worse than this, because this list only goes up to $90M in cuts but it looks like Council is planning on cutting [b]$108M[/b].

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$180M[/quote]

It could theoretically be up to $180M, but Council staff has recommended cutting "only" $108M so that is probably the ceiling.  This document covers how MCPS would absorb $90M in cuts (laying off 850 staff plus cutting everyone's COLAs) but they would need to do more to cover an $108M cut.[/quote]

It's not a cut. MCPS will get an increased budget next year despite decreasing enrollment.[/quote]

Ah, you're one of those pedants who pretends that inflation doesn't exist, I take it?  Yes, technically it is not a cut in straight dollars.  But practically speaking, it is a very large cut.[/quote]

LOL. No cut to the party budget or the personal credit cards!  No cut to the embezzler diesel school bus company! They are getting a massive increase!

$180M is nothing in a $3.74B budget.  [/quote]

Oh shut up.  It's idiots like you that lead to hundreds of layoffs and our school system being underfunded.  This is absolutely a panic-worthy situation.  Even if there was enough in waste to cut to plug this hole (there's not), Central Office wouldn't do anyway and the Board of Ed wouldn't make them, so either way there's going to be tons of cuts unless County Council changes course.[/quote]

Sorry, not a BOE member.

How does pointing out massive waste lead to layoffs?  Please explain.

It wasn't panic-worthy when the Maryland State Board of Education declared the $168,000,000 EV bus contract to have been illegally awarded and the CESO AUDIT paid for by the BOE said the MCPS Transportation Department was near collapse financially?  But now suddenly panic!!!!!!!!

How is it you say CO and the BOE won't cut any waste and so now the cuts come from only the Council?  How does MCPS Central Office and BOE get a pass on your crisis?  [/quote]

Pointing out waste doesn't lead to layoffs.  But misleading people by giving them the impression that there is enough waste at Central Office that MCPS can avoid layoffs of hundreds of school staff by just cutting the waste-- and therefore convincing people that they do not need to advocate with County Council to adequately fund MCPS, which is the political pressure that is desperately needed right now if we want to avoid laying off hundreds of school staff-- *does* lead to layoffs.

(Central Office and BOE don't get a pass from me-- they are absolutely failing here.  But they are not here listening to me.  You are.)  [/quote]

You just gave them a pass.  There is enough waste in central office to avoid layoffs.  Do some math. 10% of $3.74 billion is a whole lot of cash to look at that doesn’t impact jobs.

Try $168M is what to $170M?  One illegal contract equals all the extra money Taylor wants this year. [/quote]

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