To that point, spending time with them, what issue do you think deserves more attention from lawmakers, from your perspective?

There's so many of them.

One quick one that comes to mind is dealing with the wellness issues.

We keep hearing all this talk about, oh, we need to have wellness.

We need to have wellness.

So now we have plans.

The plans cover wellness at 100%, no deductible, no co-pays.

Did they keep that and put it towards Meals on Wheels or reducing the puns list or taking a look at the underfunding for our DSP providers?

Could we find money for more districts?"

Well, certainly right now the state can't find that, that kind of money.

They're facing a significant budget shortfall, uh, going into this next year already.

So finding those kinds of dollars would, I think, really be an issue.

But, uh, uh, we still think Chicago has room to make some, you know, tough decisions, like other schools have done.

When you have, uh, uh, what, uh, over 100 schools that are less than 50% vacancy, uh, you've got a number of schools that have 30%, um, uh, of vacancy, or 30%, um, occupancy in the schools, um, they need to make tough decisions in Chicago, just like our suburban school districts have had to make.

Uh, so I think before they come for more money, they need to look at, uh, one, making the same decisions and tough, uh, tough budget decisions that our districts have had to make, uh, and, um, two, look at their own, you know, how they could solve their own problem, just like every other district has had to do.

Senator Syverson, what do you say to some of those, uh, some of those options that, uh, Representative Davis just named as ways to generate revenue for school, for all school districts, not just CPS?