1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:02,720 Still with us either online or in the audience. 2 00:00:02,720 --> 00:00:05,040 In two hours and thirty minutes, we are looking at 3 00:00:05,040 --> 00:00:07,520 the two things that are driving this district into the 4 00:00:07,520 --> 00:00:08,800 gutter right now. 5 00:00:08,800 --> 00:00:11,520 We're looking at dropped enrollment and we're looking at no 6 00:00:11,520 --> 00:00:12,400 money. 7 00:00:12,400 --> 00:00:13,840 Zero. 8 00:00:13,840 --> 00:00:17,440 We uh plan to give a raise to our teachers 9 00:00:17,440 --> 00:00:20,800 this year after the audit came in, once we had 10 00:00:20,800 --> 00:00:24,320 a a better grasp on where our finances would land. 11 00:00:24,320 --> 00:00:26,880 And what that resulted in this year was a thousand 12 00:00:26,880 --> 00:00:31,920 dollar one time incremental stipend basically. 13 00:00:31,920 --> 00:00:34,320 It's not contractual, won't carry forward to next year. 14 00:00:34,320 --> 00:00:36,880 And my colleagues have just pointed out that it's one 15 00:00:37,040 --> 00:00:38,080 time money. 16 00:00:38,080 --> 00:00:43,200 It's land sales, it's uh SHARS, which is uh 17 00:00:43,680 --> 00:00:46,400 Medicare, Medicaid from the federal government. 18 00:00:46,400 --> 00:00:49,200 Um it's it's those sorts of things that there is 19 00:00:49,200 --> 00:00:52,560 no confidence that there will be any compensation or revenue 20 00:00:52,560 --> 00:00:54,240 to the district next year. 21 00:00:54,240 --> 00:00:56,640 And so that's the quandary we're in. 22 00:00:56,640 --> 00:00:58,880 I will tell you that in the past this district 23 00:00:58,880 --> 00:01:01,920 did not budget uh as tightly. 24 00:01:01,920 --> 00:01:04,640 It did not have as tight a budget parameters, and 25 00:01:04,640 --> 00:01:06,320 there was more wiggle room. 26 00:01:06,320 --> 00:01:08,800 The reason for that was it was a fast growth 27 00:01:08,800 --> 00:01:11,680 district, and we worked on a one-year lag. 28 00:01:11,680 --> 00:01:13,440 That's those days are over. 29 00:01:13,440 --> 00:01:14,400 Those days are over. 30 00:01:14,400 --> 00:01:18,000 The district budgets extremely tightly now because of the things 31 00:01:18,000 --> 00:01:25,120 we're talking about tonight, enrollment and the state funding model. 32 00:01:25,120 --> 00:01:26,560 Oh, I do want to make I do want to 33 00:01:26,560 --> 00:01:27,920 make one thing clear that Dr. 34 00:01:27,920 --> 00:01:30,720 Barker raised. 35 00:01:30,720 --> 00:01:34,720 The uh as previously noted, 84% of the district expenses 36 00:01:34,720 --> 00:01:35,520 are revenue. 37 00:01:35,520 --> 00:01:39,360 You are not going to cut your budget without addressing 38 00:01:39,360 --> 00:01:40,720 personnel. 39 00:01:40,720 --> 00:01:45,440 Um almost 200 personnel were reduced year to year, 23 40 00:01:45,440 --> 00:01:46,400 to 24. 41 00:01:46,400 --> 00:01:50,000 That does not show up in our our uh TAPR 42 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:52,640 reporting, which is a reporting that the state does because 43 00:01:52,640 --> 00:01:54,880 it runs on a one-year lag as well. 44 00:01:54,880 --> 00:01:56,400 And so I want to make that known. 45 00:01:56,400 --> 00:01:59,440 That's about 60 positions that were at Central Office and 46 00:01:59,440 --> 00:02:02,120 about 140 that were at campus. 47 00:02:02,120 --> 00:02:04,280 And you and you may think, oh my gosh, how 48 00:02:04,280 --> 00:02:05,240 did we do that? 49 00:02:05,240 --> 00:02:06,600 We did that through attrition 50 00:02:06,760 --> 00:02:09,000 We did not, we've never done a RIF, we've never 51 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:11,320 done a reduction in force, we've never done a layoff. 52 00:02:11,320 --> 00:02:13,640 We do it through attrition. 53 00:02:13,640 --> 00:02:17,000 Um I had something else that I wanted to say. 54 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:19,000 Oh, I want to address one more thing with you, 55 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:20,840 and it's the uh administrative cost. 56 00:02:20,840 --> 00:02:23,560 We heard tonight uh a quick and simple answer would 57 00:02:23,560 --> 00:02:25,400 be to close this building. 58 00:02:25,400 --> 00:02:28,440 Um yeah, that gets you $10 million. 59 00:02:28,440 --> 00:02:31,880 It gets you about 2% of the uh overall budget 60 00:02:31,960 --> 00:02:34,680 as our uh accountant has illustrated to our auditors have 61 00:02:34,680 --> 00:02:36,120 illustrated to you. 62 00:02:36,120 --> 00:02:39,400 Um there is probably room to cut more in this 63 00:02:39,400 --> 00:02:42,280 building, uh, just like there is more room to cut 64 00:02:42,280 --> 00:02:45,240 out on campuses, and that's the direction this district is 65 00:02:45,240 --> 00:02:49,160 absolutely headed without additional revenue consideration by the state of 66 00:02:49,160 --> 00:02:49,720 Texas. 67 00:02:49,720 --> 00:02:51,480 Thank you.