Superintendent Thomas presented a condensed legislative platform for board review ahead of the MSBA/Delegate Assembly process. The draft focuses on two priorities: reducing state mandates that impose costs on districts and increasing local control, including protections for average-daily-membership (ADM) funding when students take adaptive or alternative programs and removing per-pupil caps in the Long-Term Facilities Maintenance (LTFM) calculation.

Board members offered additions and clarifications. Directors recommended asking the legislature to require fiscal notes on proposed mandates and to allow school districts at least a year to implement new laws that carry new costs. One director noted related resolutions have surfaced in other districts and that the issue of LTFM per-pupil caps had been raised countywide.

Why it matters: legislative changes to funding formulas or mandate enforcement can materially affect district revenues and the cost of compliance, particularly for LTFM and programs like PSEO.

Next steps: staff will refine talking points, attach estimated fiscal impacts where possible, and coordinate final language with MSBA and the district's delegate assembly timeline.