The plan includes funding support total of 20,000 seats by fiscal twenty twenty eight with twenty one point three million and five million new coming online in fiscal twenty twenty six to expand elementary slots.

Please provide clarification to on the breakdown of funding in the out years.

Can you commit to including a significant investment in Sonic middle school programs like Compass Elementary.

Those programs have not seen no investments or an RFP in ten years and are struggling to maintain fiscal stability with current rates.

Thank you chair Stevens.

The new need that we received for the the concept the Compass RFP that's upcoming is set to allow us to to afford higher rates for both our elementary and middle school portfolio across the the entire portfolio.

Those rates are are going to be stabilized across the the the contract term with the increase in slots being 10,000 on in addition to the 5,000 that are being included in FY '26.

The additional 10,000 will be beginning as the start of the RFP begins, which is from today an increase of 15,000 slots.

And then an additional 5,000 slots will be added in FY '28.

Again, all of those slots that begin as of f y twenty seven would be at the new rates afforded by the content paper and RFP.

And so part of that question was also around like the Sonic the Sonic middle school program and and talking about investments and programs there as well.

And I just want to highlight just a real quick moment of the middle school, I remember when you know our former mayor talked about expansion of the middle school program, it was because this population was not being serviced and it was a huge gap and so we had this whole thing around this expansion of middle school, but I do feel like we're losing our way around making sure that we're supporting middle school students in the correct way and thinking about, and I say this because now having ACS and looking at the juvenile detention numbers and the ages, this is the population of kids that we are not serving correctly because these are the ones who are at higher numbers ending up in our secured detention centers.

And so not only do we need to be thinking about investments in middle school programming and the Sonic, but we need to be thinking about investments overall totally because even in the SYEP component is very frustrating because they don't get to work and they get $700 for the summer, which makes no sense at this point because $700 I understand why they would not go to this program, and then even with the middle school and we're talking about summarizing, they have been clear.

They have showed us with their attendance that they don't want to be there because that is not what they want to do.

And so not only do we need to be thinking about just investments, honestly I think we're at a point and a pivotal point where we need to be reimagining this population's programming because we are failing these kids when I'm looking at the number of young people who are increasing in juvenile justice secured detention centers.

And so this is something that I'm really passionate about, and I really want us to really think this through as we're thinking about new programs.