Questions from City Council: enrollment

Councilor Petty: How many students have we lost and how is that related to the budget deficit?

We've lost 3000 students over the past six years. We've got just over 23,000 students.
About $10 million dollars of our cuts is enrollment based (we get less money from the state and fed when we have fewer students), replies Brian Allen.

"Start chipping away..have a plan. Is there a plan to get to the 3.6?...to at least get there. How do we get to the $3.6 million to get to the 2%?"

(This assumes, incidentally, that the 2% was some sort of "all we need number." It's not. 102% puts us way down at the bottom of the barrel on funding, should we even get there.)

Petty: "If you can come up with $3 million...get telecom passed...get to 102%. We all recognize that; I think this council does support that idea."