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Commissioners flag representativeness, ask for mill-levy assumptions to be explicit
Summary
Board members noted the simulation's submitters skewed toward higher education and questioned whether videos and student outreach biased results; they requested clearer presentation of the mill-levy and revenue-neutral assumptions behind the $3.2 million deficit.
Several commissioners raised questions about whether the simulation's respondents represented Sedgwick County residents. One commissioner highlighted that "34 percent of the respondents had a graduate degree and less than 10% of Sedgwick County citizens has a graduate degree," and asked whether that imbalance skewed results.
Commissioners also asked that the simulation make its revenue assumptions explicit. Staff confirmed the forecast behind the $3.2 million deficit used a static mill levy of 28.701 and a 5% assessed-value increase; commissioners asked that future presentation materials include a slide explaining how a revenue-neutral rate would change the scale of required cuts (one commissioner noted this could change the deficit exposure from $3.2 million to roughly $13 million if the mill levy were adjusted).
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