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Barbara Dewey, media coordinator 22 year vet and vice presend for emply. Fully fund the ch/cb request. The cost of educating is high. Moral problem with the teachers. We have 112 teachers whoses salary is capped. Some are earning far less thanothers and doing the same job woith the same high results from the students. Teacher cap. Capped teachers teach in 9 of the 11 critical areas listed by the ch city schools. Jan dune a tax payer and she is willing to pay more for the quality education to continue. Ch/Cb but supports full funding for both of the schools. Sherry Walters residnet and parent central elementary governance committee.... supports entire budget ...referenced the expansioin and new incentives programs. Advocate for Central I't grade teacher and reading recording are essential to their school. Mellisa Link, teacher support of budget. Central I't grade teachingposition. Smaller class sizes have helped. Greg Semsa parent and volunteer and pta, Orange County c.w. stanford and hillsborough elementnary, our school admin is outstanding. No waste but some things cannot be done without money Great music tteacher.. . Stephanie Doyle, teacher at stanback and advocate for public ed and exceptional children. Speaking for the exceptional children program. Year round and traditional school in one school .. we need exceptional teacher program for both programs. LISTEN Kathy Henderson, co pres of oc assoc of ed and been a 20 teacher. Spoke insupport of the oc teachers and schools. S upports what she has heard. We need to be competitive in our nationa nd state. Susan DeBarloto and they have lived here 20 years, teacher in oc . She has attended by school board meetings and bocc budget meetings. They spend many hours going over what the 9 schools have requested. They are only asking for what they need please fulfill the budget needs. Jennifer Miller. Speak in support of the Orange county her high school daughter in seminar progjram. Her daughter loves it and they are already overcrowded. Keith Cook, orange county schoolboard member, acknowe all of the oc people who have come to support the school board. Thanked the bocc for their support. This budget is intended to have us catch up. Please make education our number one priority andkeep it there until we have reached the point where everyone has all of their needs met. Mentioned social promotion of the past. Times have changed. Three years ago oc said no more social promotion. We need more resources. He read the managers recommendationa nd is troubled. The district will be short of what they need. They appreciate the per child incrase but it only 498,000 to fund the expanded budget 775,000 short . exceptional children program ... need more teachers. Foreign language 3 spanish teachers for elementary .... 3 technology experts. Students who start school without the necessary skills to succeed. Pre -K teacher and actualy need 3 .... Increase of the local supplement. Don't settle for an arbitray dollar amount... we need to meet the needs of all children. The proposed budget does not help meet those goals. We do not need to make the same mistakes from the past. Eleanor McConnell parent on oc school students.... they aspire to live here many more years. Oc budget needs to be fully funded. C.W. Stanford middle school and other parents... spoke in support of the band program. The teacher consistently raises expectations. Eileen Kugler, citizen volunteer Chair of the Human Relations Commission. Thank you for your past support of the commission and the civil rights ordinance. We need the positions... investigator position. Coverted form time limited to permanent and one new investigator and an administrative assistnt for 30 to 40 hours per week. The civil rights ordin has obligations. Complaints have increased. Excellent staff. Work is intensive and analytical and requires a lot of work. Complaints will contineu to incrase. We are charged with carrying educationa ndoutreach ... cannot do that without the positions. Operating budget it