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Board of Education requests $3.1 million to fund negotiated agreement; commissioners debate trade-offs and reserves
Summary
The St. Mary's County school system asked the county for $3.1 million to fund a negotiated compensation agreement; school officials said the amount is the minimum needed to honor the agreement as negotiated.
The St. Mary's County Board of Education told county commissioners on May 6 that $3.1 million is the “go/no-go” number needed to meet a negotiated compensation agreement for the coming fiscal year.
Tammy McCourt, a school finance official, and Dr. Smith, a senior school system official, described budget adjustments the school system has made to reduce its original request from $5.4 million to $3.1 million. McCourt said the system reduced staffing assumptions, secured lower-than-expected health insurance increases (including negotiated reductions in a stop-loss component), and planned other structural…
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