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DOE officials respond to questions about funding for counselors and support staff
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DOE officials, including the CFO and Chancellor, respond to Council Member Louis's questions about funding for counselors and support staff.
- The CFO states that SAPIS workers funding is about $2 million in FY '25, but it's not baseline funding
- Social workers funding is baseline in the budget, previously funded with expiring federal stimulus dollars and now backfilled by the city
- The Chancellor mentions they are working on getting vacancy numbers for special education services and paraprofessionals
Seritta Scott
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Sure, good morning.
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So for the SAPIS workers funding, believe that's about 2,000,000 and that's in '25, but it's not baseline, that's something that usually is added one year at a time.
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In terms of our other supports like the social workers that funding is baseline in our budget, it was funded with expiring federal stimulus dollars and then was backfilled and baseline by the city.
Farah Louis
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And how about family support staff?
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I'll get back to
Seritta Scott
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you on a family support staff.
Melissa Aviles-Ramos
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Okay.
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Thank you.
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Council member, we're also working on getting you the the vacancies since we are not quite at that point yet, right, we're just starting to program for the upcoming school year but we're gonna get those numbers to you right now.
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Okay.
Farah Louis
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Right and I saw that in your testimony you mentioned a division of family and community student empowerment.
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So that's what sparked some of those questions.
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So I'm happy to hear about that new division.
Melissa Aviles-Ramos
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Yes and so we are going to quickly ask chief Ramper Santo to talk specifically about SAPS workers and some of those supports, and then we're going to invite deputy chancellor Melendez to speak more about the division and the work we're doing.
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Thank you.