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Board of Education requests: commissioners back negotiated pay package, earmark $800,000 for bus drivers and remove $4M OPEB expenditure from county baseline
Summary
St. Mary's County school superintendent presented ECC requests including non‑recurring technology and OPEB proposals; commissioners indicated support for the negotiated pay package and earmarked funding for bus drivers while directing staff to re‑examine transportation accounts.
Dr. Smith, superintendent of St. Mary's County Public Schools, presented the school system's budget change requests and three ECC (extra departmental) packages during the county's FY2023 budget work session. The board and county staff discussed non‑recurring needs, a negotiated salary agreement and transportation costs tied to bus driver pay.
Dr. Smith said the school system had worked to concentrate federal and state aid and to protect core operations. He described three ECCs that would be presented to commissioners: roughly $6.2 million in non‑recurring items (technology, digitizing elementary English‑language arts materials, OPEB contribution), about $5.3 million to honor a negotiated agreement with school employees, and a transportation request…
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