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Proposed correspondence to Segun C. Eubanks, Ed.D., Chair, Prince George's County Board of Education, transmitting their Fiscal Year 2017 Operating Budget request.
Background
The Board of Education’s FY 2017 Approved Budget reconciliation request appropriation transfers of $96,601,500 between major expenditure categories. The transfer request includes the School System’s Chief Executive Officer’s recommended reconciliation actions. The Board of Education’s total budget does not change from the FY 2017 County approved level of $1,923,860,100.
The reconciling transfer request includes a request to appropriate $7,500,000 from the BOE’s Fund Balance to be used as revenue for FY 2017 and to transfer appropriated funds between their fifteen State mandated major expenditure categories. The request to appropriate their Fund Balance to be used for FY 2017 will be considered at a later date.
The transfer request increases funding within the Fixed Charges and Health Services. These additional expenditures are offset by reduced allowances within the Administration, Mid-Level Administration, Instructional Salaries, Textbooks and Instructional Materials, Other Instructional Costs, Special Education, Student Personnel Services, Student Transportation Services, Operation of Plant, Maintenance of Plant, Food Service Subsidy and Community Services categories. These reconciling actions are needed to maintain fiscal stability to preserve and enhance essential school system programs and services, and to address critical needs consistent with the PGCPS Strategic Plan.