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31 <br /> Slide #27 <br /> Fund Balance <br /> • Audited undesignated fund balance amounts for FY2023-24 <br /> — Does not represent fund balance appropriations made during FY2024-25 Year to Date <br /> — Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools -$445,968 -.5%of FY2023-24 actual expenditures <br /> — Orange County Schools $2,612,690 6%of FY2023-24 actual expenditures <br /> 27 ORANGE,ROLIN COUNT Y <br /> Commissioner Carter referred to slide #25. She asked what services other school <br /> districts are not providing compared to OCS and CHCCS. <br /> Travis Myren said he would need to look into the comparative analysis. He said that it <br /> represents the top 20 statewide and the range is broad. <br /> Commissioner McKee said other counties do not have the resources that Orange <br /> County has and might not have the ability to pay especially those in the eastern part of the <br /> state. He said that east and west that needs to be kept in mind. He noted that the list in slide <br /> #25 shows only the top 20. He said the very lower ones are in the extreme east and extreme <br /> west and he thinks that is about the ability to pay. <br /> Danielle Jones, OCS superintendent, said most of the funding would be used for making <br /> up the difference for special populations. She said the recommended caseload might be 50 <br /> cases per EC teacher, and OCS would try to cut that caseload down to at least half to try to <br /> provide support to EC staff. She said that the increased funding would also be used for multi- <br /> lingual students, where there is less state funding available. She said they use the funds for <br /> counselors and social workers. She said that OCS has a social worker in every school, which is <br /> not the case in other districts. <br /> Commissioner Portie-Ascott asked if the superintendent could share any outcomes and <br /> effects of the increased funding in the school district. <br /> Danielle Jones said that at the end of the 22-23 school year they had five low performing <br /> schools. She said the current year has been about assessing where they are as a district. She <br /> said they ended this last year with three low performing schools. She said 90% of schools met <br /> or exceeded growth and that was higher than any other neighboring district. She said that the <br /> data shows growth in areas like math and they look forward to seeing the final information at the <br /> end of the year. <br />