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A
Hello,
everybody
I'm
Andy,
Pruitt,
director
of
communications
and
technology
to
charleston,
county
school
district
and
I'm
joined
with
our
chief
financial
officer,
Glenn
stegeman
Glenn.
There's
some
really
good
news.
When
it
comes
to
our
budget,
that's
we
really
feel
like
we
need
to
share
with
our
public.
The
first
thing
is:
a
balanced
budget
has
been
proposed
for
the
2017
2018
school
year
to
our
Board
of
Trustees.
Why
so?
Early?
Because
this
is
kind
of
out
of
the
ordinary?
Usually
it's
submitted
later
in
the
spring
yeah.
B
Usually
you'll
put
the
budgets
at
the
board
for
the
first
time,
probably
in
April
or
late
April
or
May
this
year.
I
wanted
to
compress
the
budget
process
for
a
couple
of
reasons.
Number
one
has
the
budget
passed
as
a
final
budget
before
we
issue
contracts
for
teachers
so
that
we've
got
a
budget
today
will
adequately
fund
the
number
of
positions
we're
going
to
have
so
that
that's
the
primary
reason
for
doing
it
this
year
and
also
to
see
this
compressed
budget
would
prevent
us
from
having
last-minute
decision
they
can
in
late
June
and.
B
Across
the
district,
I
think
it
lines
up
very
well
because
in
building
our
budget
priorities
this
year
we
solicited
information
from
our
allocations
committee,
which
is
committee
of
employees
of
the
district
and
some
teachers
for
certain
issues.
We
asked
the
strategic
planning
people
that
are
connections
committee
to
look
at
the
issues
they
want
to
do
as
far
as
student
performance
achievement,
as
well
as
a
certain
benchmarks.
The
superintendent
had
a
lot
of
input
into
that,
so
I
think
we're
mirroring
to
a
great
extent
what
she
wants
to
see
happen.
This.
A
B
Going
forward
I
think
we
can
and
I
think
we
should.
It
is
the
first
time
in
probably
ten
years
that
they
had
a
balanced
budget
and
a
balanced
budget.
This
early
we
have
budgeted
many
times
to
have
deficits,
then
ran
some
surpluses.
I
think
we've
honed
to
budget
down
better
than
before
you
got
to
remember
this
was
a
this
budget
was
produced
at
on
the
time
the
heels
of
a
big
deficit
in
1516,
a
larger
deficit
in
1415.
B
A
To
on
this
budget
and
going
forward
that
you
guys,
your
staff
is
doing,
are
doing
conservative
estimates
on
the
growth
of
Charleston
County
right
around
four
and
a
half
to
five
percent
is
what
charleston
county
is
growing
at.
But
you
want
to
keep
it
in
a
three
point:
two
five
percent
range:
can
you
kind
of
explain
what
you're
doing
with
those
percentages
and
why,
you're
being
so
conservative
with
growth,
yeah.
B
One
run
is
one
reason
is
to
be
conservative
number
one
to
make
sure
we
don't
overestimate
revenue.
We've
done
that,
sometimes
in
the
past
the
county
is
able
to
count
all
the
residential
growth.
We
don't
get
residential
property
taxes
to
support
us
for
our
operating
purposes
and
the
residential
base
is
growing
very
strongly
right
now,
so
we
backed
out
on
it.
We
did
a
two
and
a
half
percent
for
this
year,
but
I
think
we
can
go
up
to
three
and
a
quarter.
I
think
it's
more
reasonable,
but
I
still
think
we're
the
overall.
A
Mentioned
primary
homeowner
tax:
that's
something
that
our
district
and
districts
around
our
state
cannot
count
on.
Sorry.
Can
you
explain
the
state
law
that
prevents
us
from
drawing
that
up,
drawing
on
that
and
where
we
do
receive
our
funds
when
it
comes
to
our
general
operating
fund
for
our
school
district?
That.
B
There
was
a
there
was
a
law
passed
in
2006
act,
388,
which
took
away
the
property
taxes
that
were
levied
on
homeowners
who
lived
in
their
homes.
Okay,
that
would
include
residential
property,
that
is
single-family
condos,
that
kind
of
stuff
they've
replaced
it
with
a
one-cent
sales
tax,
and
that,
once
in
sales,
tax
was
supposed
to
match
up
with
the
amount
of
property
taxes
we
would
have
received.
It
does
not
so
we've
had
a
shortfall
in
that
sense,
it
began
ten
years
ago,
but
the
homeowners
do
have
that
relief.
B
So
it's
a
very,
very
popular
thing
won't
go
away.
It's
going
to
be
here
to
stay
and
to
get
our
taxes
we
get.
We
get
that
one
cent
which
is
not
adequate.
We
also
got
the
the
ability
to
raise
taxes,
and
then
we
do
get
state
revenue,
not
a
lot
because
of
our
wealth
factor.
It
also
to
something
that
the
budget,
when.
A
There's
a
it's
an
important
thing
to
discuss
to
that
this.
This
current
school
year,
the
2016-2017
school
year,
you
did
a
revised
budget
to
be
balanced,
but
to
do
that,
we
had
to
remove
money
from
our
debt
service
right
going
forward
with
the
money
that
we
hopefully
will
save
at
the
end
of
this
budget
for
this
school
year
and
moving
forward
will
a
lot
of
that
money
go
back
into
replacing
what
was
taken
out
of
there.
Yeah.
B
What
we
actually
did
was
we
had
a
reserve
in
debt
service
that
was
in
the
30
million
dollar
range.
We
only
needed
about
10
or
12
million
in
there,
so
we
transferred
some
of
the
millage
off
of
debt
service
over
to
the
village
and
operating
which
essentially
saved
the
debt
service,
some
20
million
dollars
and
taxes
being
levied,
and
that's
homeowners
paying
that
and
it
went
over
to
the
operating
side.
That
was
a
way
to
supplement
the
budget.
That's
how
I
our
situation
was.
A
One
other
thing
I
want
was
hoping
you
could
create
for
his
grin.
Is
that
there's
a
there's,
a
misconception
about
what
is
funded
by
certain
budgets
right,
there's
our
general
operating
budget
and
then
there's
capital
programs?
Can
you
kind
of
explain
the
difference
there
because
I
think
a
lot
of
people
believe
everything
goes
into
one
pot
and
so
that,
if
we're
spending
money
like
we're
going
to
spend
money
on
this
regional
stadium,
east
of
the
Cooper
that
we're
essentially
taking
money
that
could
be
spent
on
books
for
teacher
salaries,
yeah
yeah.
B
B
If
they're
building
bonds
like
we
sell
those
are,
can
only
be
used
for
construction
or
heavy
renovation
or
brand
new
school,
so
they
do
not
parallel
legally,
we
can't
have
one
fund
fund,
the
other
there's
other
funds
to
our
total
budget,
about
eight
hundred
million
dollars
and
are
operating
is
only
about
450
of
that.
So
a
lot
of
money
is
going
into
capital-
that's
probably
next
biggest
one,
our
debt
service
and
then
a
lot
of
special
revenue,
so
those
funds
that
don't
get
to
be
commingle
because
of
state
and
federal
laws.
All.