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Were not reaching. Commissioner maufus. Thank you. I had in regards, i just want to make a comment to what you said commissioner norton. I can understand that sort of thinking which would get us over a huge hump and serve so many families, but i also see that as disadvantaging the families, that really we need to get to as well because that puts them behind them again. And thats always sort of the balance were trying not to do thats not my intent at all. Of course not. I just wanted to note that because as you were talking about it, i was trying to think that makes sense to try to get a huge, ...

An putting it on a four year refresh cycle and i think we need to do that. One of my questions for you is have you identified actually funding for this or is it more like this is an ask as part of the fundamental development strategy. Ill take a first stab at it. Great question. Its a yes and yes. So were actually looking at identifying funding that would address the laptop issue for educator as part of our general fund, but also is going to be an ask that were asking from private funders as well to help us move forward. I think it makes sense for us to have a three year refresh cycle so were ...

So were actually looking at identifying funding that would address the laptop issue for educator as part of our general fund, but also is going to be an ask that were asking from private funders as well to help us move forward. I think it makes sense for us to have a three year refresh cycle so were always getting the latest equipment in place, but its been a fascinating journey because it also requires you have a really robust acid Management System where you can track and account for that kind of a system so that requires some enterprise systems as well, which is dependent on technology. So ...

Timeframes, hopefully well go out for a bond. Its a 4 something on this scale which is 130 to 160 million. Were going to go to a bond, but to get there were working with our private funders to help us along those lines. Superintendent lee talked about qeta to funds were talking about 2,000 educators to try to get them devices. We have another sources of funds, the common core state funds, the commissioners approved approximately 2. 2 million next year to buy devices to help support the online test so well be rolling about 5400 devices out to school sites next year to support that. We have anot...

Amount of money. So putting in people soft about ten years ago, somewhere in the 8 to 10 million range, so putting an hr system were anticipating 5 million and budget another 2 million. Thats significant amount of money to raise. We were planning next year the chief of hr and i have been talking about how we can join forces to start looking at what would a different hr system look like and what would we want it to do . Do we want to implement people soft or other systems or combination systems for the ability to develop career lattices. And weve been working with the Budget Office to talk abou...