 Everybody ready? I just want to say thank you for having me here. This was really nice of you and Susan. Thank you for the tour See some things don't change But this has been really great There there's a reason I'm here. I'm really promoting My budget address and I think the direction we ought to go as a as a state And there are two really big things that I want to point out the first thing is Well, there's an overarching theme and that is we really need to take what happens in places like this seriously and And this is something that's not just a nice thing to have boy It would be nice to have a nice elementary school here But it would be a nice thing for me to you know have some of my tax money go for that because I'm just a nice guy The reason we need to invest in what goes on here is because all of our Lives will be better if we do a good job here. I live in York County, but I care what happens here in the school I care what happens in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia and Erie and Warfordsburg, Pennsylvania because if the kids get a good education in this school district Then my life is going to be better. My economy in Pennsylvania is going to be better So that's the that's what brings me here. So what do we do about that? There are two things that I think are really important first We need to invest in education. I understand that money is not the end all and be all It's not sufficient, but as they say in philosophy, it's a necessary condition to a good education Once you have that you can afford to do the things that you're doing here where you you have teachers working together You have students actually having so cratic seminars Those things are really really important but it starts with making sure you have an adequate investment and We have to have an accountable system to make sure that that we know that that our investment is is having a payback And schools will vary from from district to district But we need to we need to make sure that we're making the investment Second thing is part of making an investment I think starts with making sure we raise money the right way We have to allocate it fairly but we have to raise it fairly and one of the things that I ran on when I was running Governor and one of the things that I think is wrong with our system and has become increasingly wrong over the last 40 years is our property tax The property tax 40 years ago might have been a fair way to Fund public education because communities were much more varied in terms of economic class Today, it's not so much. We have areas that that we've we've segregated the Economic class and so the property tax is not as fair as it once was We have people who are paying far too much and getting far too little in terms of tax revenue For schools and other places that are just doing fine. We want to have it so that doesn't matter what your zip code is You are going to get a good education We don't we want to make a system that we don't care what your zip code is You're going to pay fairly into that system. So what I'm proposing and we've been talking about this for 30 years now at least How a how to reform our property tax system? I've come up with a plan that will save lots of money just in this school district 120% drop in the property tax. Now, what does that mean? Well, it means if you're a homeowner or you have a farmstead You're going to pay zero in terms of property taxes and that'll leave 20% over to have across the board Millage reduction for every taxpayer business every everybody second homeowner whatever So this is really big and I'm proposing to increase funding by what about 2.2 million dollars Just in this school district. So I want to do both things I want to invest more in education and I want to make sure we're raising the funding for education in a fair way And that's why coming to a school like this where we're really you guys are really doing a good job I was gonna say we you're really doing a great job I want to make sure you have the resources you need to make sure those kids get the education We all need them to get that's that's not the philanthropy. That's actually a hard self-interest And so the property tax reform is really important and the investment in education is really important So that's why I'm here to showcase it and I'm really happy that that you showed me showed all of us such such nice Examples of what we can do if we if we have the right resources. So thank you for having me here