RA02.22 Compensatory Education and SAFE
Funding

General Fund Appropriation, provided that
$8,000,000 of the appropriation made for
the purpose of providing SAFE Funding
for the Prince George's County Public
School System shall be withheld from
disbursement until the Management
Oversight Panel provides a report to the
budget committees on whether significant
progress has been made by the Prince
George's County Public School System

toward implementing the

recommendations of the MGT
performance audit and the budget
committees have had 45 days to review
and comment. The report shall be
submitted no later than November 1,
1999.

Further provided that:

(a) The Management Oversight Panel and
the Prince George's County Board of
Education shall promulgate and
publish a protocol for joint
communications with, and requests for
information from, the Board and the
Superintendent. The Panel and the
Board shall notify the budget
committees, the Prince George's
County Senators and Prince George's
County House Delegation, the County
Executive and County Council, and the
State Superintendent of Schools of any
breaches of that protocol by any party;

(b) Prior to submission of the proposed
annual school budget to the Board of
Education, the Superintendent, shall
submit the budget to the Management
Oversight Panel for its comments on
how the budget incorporates the audit
recommendations, implementation of
which the Panel is charged in State law
to monitor for a four year period; and

(e) "Regarding the Board's search for a new
Superintendent, the Management