Still with us either online or in the audience.
In two hours and thirty minutes, we are looking at
the two things that are driving this district into the
gutter right now.
We're looking at dropped enrollment and we're looking at no
money.
Zero.
We uh plan to give a raise to our teachers
this year after the audit came in, once we had
a a better grasp on where our finances would land.
And what that resulted in this year was a thousand
dollar one time incremental stipend basically.
It's not contractual, won't carry forward to next year.
And my colleagues have just pointed out that it's one
time money.
It's land sales, it's uh SHARS, which is uh
Medicare, Medicaid from the federal government.
Um it's it's those sorts of things that there is
no confidence that there will be any compensation or revenue
to the district next year.
And so that's the quandary we're in.
I will tell you that in the past this district
did not budget uh as tightly.
It did not have as tight a budget parameters, and
there was more wiggle room.
The reason for that was it was a fast growth
district, and we worked on a one-year lag.
That's those days are over.
Those days are over.
The district budgets extremely tightly now because of the things
we're talking about tonight, enrollment and the state funding model.
Oh, I do want to make I do want to
make one thing clear that Dr.
Barker raised.
The uh as previously noted, 84% of the district expenses
are revenue.
You are not going to cut your budget without addressing
personnel.
Um almost 200 personnel were reduced year to year, 23
to 24.
That does not show up in our our uh TAPR
reporting, which is a reporting that the state does because
it runs on a one-year lag as well.
And so I want to make that known.
That's about 60 positions that were at Central Office and
about 140 that were at campus.
And you and you may think, oh my gosh, how
did we do that?
We did that through attrition
We did not, we've never done a RIF, we've never
done a reduction in force, we've never done a layoff.
We do it through attrition.
Um I had something else that I wanted to say.
Oh, I want to address one more thing with you,
and it's the uh administrative cost.
We heard tonight uh a quick and simple answer would
be to close this building.
Um yeah, that gets you $10 million.
It gets you about 2% of the uh overall budget
as our uh accountant has illustrated to our auditors have
illustrated to you.
Um there is probably room to cut more in this
building, uh, just like there is more room to cut
out on campuses, and that's the direction this district is
absolutely headed without additional revenue consideration by the state of
Texas.
Thank you.