the proposed changes...is changing our fund balance range from 6 to 12% to 10 to 18%...the goal...is to be at the top of the fund balance range...this policy does state that you know we are looking at at assigning the funds for special education English language learning and capital projects...what we don't want to do is is inhibit learning to be at a point just because we're concentrating on the fund balance.

we've we've lived um you know that incredibly low fund balance and and that you know happened through the pandemic and and and it's hard to be in that position and and uh um for everybody at every level and uh just incredibly important for us to put ourselves in a position where we don't have to be back in that that point um when something major happens means a lot and um I think this will do that

I did have an outstanding question at the last meeting that had since been answered and so I wanted to just say something about that publicly which is that again when looking at what that range should be try to look not only at other districts but also um at what um finance officer organizations really look to as best practices...since that time we got information as a board that that range does put us well within that best practice