And address, please.
Hi, I'm Chris Waddell, resident of Lil, and I'm at
12513 Coral Drive.
Okay.
And I do have some handouts for the council that
I just want to pass on real quick.
Okay, so I'm I'm here tonight regarding our public schools.
So our public schools are under attack, are under
attack, excuse me.
And we um I'm sure most of us, all of
us know that uh not fully funding our public schools
is just bad, it's terrible, um, is bad for our
communities.
So the results of not having our public schools
funded, um, you know, declining property values, um potentially
high crime rates, uh weak economic growth, and then above
all, our kids are poorly educated.
Now there's um a solution to that, or to to
avoid those uh circumstances.
Um is to increase the basic allotment by
sixteen hundred dollars for a total of 7760 per student
and tie to inflation.
Secondly, fund schools based on allotment, not attendance, to ensure
full funding.
Third, deposit all recapture funds into the state education fund
rather than a general fund.
And then uh lastly, um reject school voucher programs
that divert funding away from public education.
Um I'm gonna turn over to Dale.
He could give you a little bit more of statistics
and on on why um our public schools need the
adequate funding.
Yeah, sure.
Uh well thank you.
Uh thank you for having me.
My name's Dale Freddy, I live at six year old
one seven Cypress Coeok Drive, but I'm gonna come today
to basically cut kind of, I would go, I have
way too much information if it had been one minute.
But our our neighbors are suffering really bad right now
in a major, major deficit for their ISDs
And with uh unfunded uh money coming to our ISDs
from the legislature, I fear that little Elm ISD may
uh see the same thing as well.
Uh people do not move here for a voucher program,
and I really worry about uh what will happen to
our schools if they continue to get underfunded.
Uh I know this is not an ISD, I know
this is a city council, but please understand that these
this does affect our community, and uh we would really
hope if you were willing to to try to make
a statement or put something on social media and say,
hey, look, our schools are underfunded, this affects all of
our communities.
As city council members would be really really awesome if
you guys will come out and try to make a
statement upon that and try to push our legislatures in
Austin to increase the basic lotment.
Thank you.
All right, thank you.
Mayor?
Yes.
I'm sorry, I I I did not get the second
gentleman's name.
Oh, Dale Fray?
Okay, all right.