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Superintendent Pedersen said that for CHCCS there were 226 more students than last year and 138 students over what the state projected. This is more or less the opposite of what happened last year when they were about 20 students under the state projection. Commissioner Jacobs asked about their projections for this year. Superintendent Pedersen said that these are the state projections and Steve Scroggs, Chapel Hill-Carrboro Schools, reported that they projected a little bit higher than the DPI and more accurate than DPI and they adjust to the DPI numbers. Commissioner Halkiotis requested a more simplistic statement from both systems of how many children shaved up and how many were funded on the per pupil amounts. 3. 2005-06 Adopted School Budgets Chair Carey asked far comments an the adopted budgets far the 2005-06 school year which are Items 1-b, 3a and 3b. Commissioner Gordon asked that the documents clearly indicate haw much money each school district asked for, what they actually got, what is the difference, and what is the reason for the differences? She was not asking for this information right now but to receive the information at the same time that Commissioner Halkiotis' request for a simpler reporting on the number of students that showed up and how many were funded is received. Commissioner Jacobs asked how much they actually budgeted vs. how much they requested overall. Commissioner Halkiotis said that it would be helpful to know what CHCCS and OCS could salvage and what they could not implement and could not fund. Basically he wanted to know what each school district got and what they did not get. Commissioner Gordon said that they are asking about both operating and capital expenditures. This past year the Commissioners raised the CHCCS district tax a little less than a penny, to replace money the Commissioners had taken from the capital budget, in order to hold CHCCS harmless. CHCCS chose to use this money for the operating budget instead of the capital budget. Commissioner Gordon said she was asking about the entire budget request. Superintendent Carraway said she keeps assuming they will get some sort of format for this reporting. John Link said the Superintendents would meet tomorrow and will discuss this and get the requested information to the Board of Commissioners. AI Hartkopf pointed out that on attachment 1 b-3b, page 3 at the bottom of facing page under "Expansion or New Initiative Budget", the BOE requests are listed and under the Manager Recommendation column the new initiatives that were not funded are listed. This is what the school boards were not able to get. Commissioner Halkiotis reminded everyone that the Manager does not recommend the school budget. Superintendent Carraway said that these were the forms that they were given to complete. Mr. Link said that this would be discussed at the Superintendent's meeting tomorrow. Superintendent Pedersen said that in the state's budget this year the Governor was allocated $85 million dollars to use to improve teacher salaries across the state and he has not taken any action on this yet but he will. It was suggested in a recent meeting that probably the most likely scenario would translate to an across the board 1.6°~ increase that will hit districts who have the larger local supplements and the greater number of local teachers with a cast that they did not anticipate. Superintendent Pedersen said they wound up with a 2°k increase so