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End of Year Subcommittee Report (5 minutes)
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(ID # 6017) Finance and Facilities End of Year Subcommittee Report (5 minutes)
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▶ 2:42:23 Speaker 3: Now, on to the year-end subcommittee report, as my colleagues mentioned, it's all here in all its glory, feel free to peruse, I will happily entertain any comments or suggestions. The only thing I would like to highlight is that, again, we are looking ahead to the SY19 process and it begins tonight essentially with the approval of the
▶ 2:43:08 Speaker 3: timeline and so carry on budget time comments questions mr. O'Connell thanks
▶ 2:43:11 Speaker 4: thanks for working this the one thing that I thought was I think I have it in the right order this time you did a great job with the outreach and we're getting better and better at this every year but the work you did going to all those PTO meetings and inviting people into the process and engaging people and being able to answer questions I think was great people have talked about it ever since so kudos to you for doing that the question I had was with regard to something you said you said lastly it is the intention of the FNF chair to tie funds and priorities of the sy 18 budget to the outcomes can you tell me what you
▶ 2:43:57 Speaker 3: meant by that sure so discussion with miss Farrell and I looking forward at the sy 19 budget document it has been the idea is that we will look at where money was spent last year what the priorities were there were as you might recall three that we set and a fourth added by the superintendent and to attempt to look at how that money was spent and whether or not it was not whether or not how beneficial it was what the outcomes were that were tied to it I think in the past this document has done a good job in general of showing where money has gone it has not necessarily shown whether or not good money followed bad or bad money followed good or where improvements were made so I feel that that is something that we can do simply in a business sense if you spend money and you look back and you go well that was a bad investment you've got that decompression we haven't had that analysis at least in the time that
▶ 2:45:14 Speaker 4: I've been privy great makes sense thank you for that any further discussion
▶ 2:45:20 Speaker 3: thank you and that concludes financing facilities for the evening next on our