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<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">We spoke with you during our last CED meeting about carry-over and the new restrictions on spending for FY25. I must ensure you share this with your faculty and appropriate staff.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Any FY24 carry-over will not be available for spending this fiscal year. The University is not sweeping the funding but is not allowing us to spend these funds.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">We are loading your allocated county funding for FY25, anticipating that your county carry-over will be available for you to spend. </p>
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<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">I have had some faculty tell me that they were unaware of this new policy. Please explain to them this is a University policy and that the state office, which also had plans for spending
carry-over funding, must revise our spending plan since this will not be available to us either. Unfortunately, this means we cannot cover many gaps for unit funds this year.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">I know this is certainly a challenge for us all, and we will do all we can to assist, but please also keep in mind the state office is facing the same challenges.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Please ensure all faculty and appropriate staff are aware of this policy.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Regards,</p>
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