Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I hope McKnight gets fired but she is not the cause of this particular issue which is about inflation and increased health care claims including for Ozempic and Wegovy which are ver expensive and very popular.
Are fat teachers and principals using Ozempic/WeGovy enough to create a $40 million deficit? Seems like scapegoating, given the size of the deficit.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I hope McKnight gets fired but she is not the cause of this particular issue which is about inflation and increased health care claims including for Ozempic and Wegovy which are ver expensive and very popular.
Are fat teachers and principals using Ozempic/WeGovy enough to create a $40 million deficit? Seems like scapegoating, given the size of the deficit.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Today in the fiscal management meeting, they went into some pretty alarming details about where MCPS stands fiscally:
Apparently, the Employee Benefit Plan (EBP) fund balance has a $40 million deficit. This deficit is directly related to the spending freeze that's currently in place and why MCPS is looking to charge for summer school and transportation going forward.
Wonderful. Another reason to get rid of Dr. McKnight. She is a 360 degree disaster.
How exactly is this her fault? Not to mention the finance team has been bringing awareness about the potential flags for awhile(such as higher healthcare cost and more people acquiring them likely from things that got put off during the pandemic. Also they were very vocal about the fact the major cuts were going to be needed for FY2024 given that we’re forced to deplete the standing fund balance, ESSR funds were going a way, and inflation, while lower still had prices overall higher.
And now upon seeing the latest project they input expenditure freezes. What exactly do you expect them to do?
I mean I guess last year they could have cut another 70-100M from the budget, but not sure anyone would have been happy about that either.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Today in the fiscal management meeting, they went into some pretty alarming details about where MCPS stands fiscally:
Apparently, the Employee Benefit Plan (EBP) fund balance has a $40 million deficit. This deficit is directly related to the spending freeze that's currently in place and why MCPS is looking to charge for summer school and transportation going forward.
Wonderful. Another reason to get rid of Dr. McKnight. She is a 360 degree disaster.
How exactly is this her fault? Not to mention the finance team has been bringing awareness about the potential flags for awhile(such as higher healthcare cost and more people acquiring them likely from things that got put off during the pandemic. Also they were very vocal about the fact the major cuts were going to be needed for FY2024 given that we’re forced to deplete the standing fund balance, ESSR funds were going a way, and inflation, while lower still had prices overall higher.
And now upon seeing the latest project they input expenditure freezes. What exactly do you expect them to do?
I mean I guess last year they could have cut another 70-100M from the budget, but not sure anyone would have been happy about that either.
I think Monifa didn't help by obligating MCPS to pay in full for all AP/IB exams for starters. I'm sure that had a significant effect on expenditures for the county.
Anonymous wrote:I hope McKnight gets fired but she is not the cause of this particular issue which is about inflation and increased health care claims including for Ozempic and Wegovy which are ver expensive and very popular.
Anonymous wrote:I'm surprised that given we have so many teachers on this forum and that MCPS has implemented a spending freeze because of this deficit, that more teachers aren't concerned by this news.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Today in the fiscal management meeting, they went into some pretty alarming details about where MCPS stands fiscally:
Apparently, the Employee Benefit Plan (EBP) fund balance has a $40 million deficit. This deficit is directly related to the spending freeze that's currently in place and why MCPS is looking to charge for summer school and transportation going forward.
Wonderful. Another reason to get rid of Dr. McKnight. She is a 360 degree disaster.
How exactly is this her fault? Not to mention the finance team has been bringing awareness about the potential flags for awhile(such as higher healthcare cost and more people acquiring them likely from things that got put off during the pandemic. Also they were very vocal about the fact the major cuts were going to be needed for FY2024 given that we’re forced to deplete the standing fund balance, ESSR funds were going a way, and inflation, while lower still had prices overall higher.
And now upon seeing the latest project they input expenditure freezes. What exactly do you expect them to do?
I mean I guess last year they could have cut another 70-100M from the budget, but not sure anyone would have been happy about that either.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Today in the fiscal management meeting, they went into some pretty alarming details about where MCPS stands fiscally:
Apparently, the Employee Benefit Plan (EBP) fund balance has a $40 million deficit. This deficit is directly related to the spending freeze that's currently in place and why MCPS is looking to charge for summer school and transportation going forward.
Wonderful. Another reason to get rid of Dr. McKnight. She is a 360 degree disaster.
Anonymous wrote:Today in the fiscal management meeting, they went into some pretty alarming details about where MCPS stands fiscally:
Apparently, the Employee Benefit Plan (EBP) fund balance has a $40 million deficit. This deficit is directly related to the spending freeze that's currently in place and why MCPS is looking to charge for summer school and transportation going forward.
Anonymous wrote:Can you elaborate on the transportation charge? Is this for all bus routes?