Vote — approved

Bill Gates	yes
Clint Hickman	yes
Jack Sellers	yes
Thomas Galvin	yes
Steve Gallardo	yes

Ayes: Bill Gates, Clint Hickman, Jack Sellers, Thomas Galvin, Steve Gallardo

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45. FUNDING BUDGET ADJUSTMENT AND ACCEPT DONATION FROM TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY (TSMC) TO PURCHASE MICRO-BIT KITS FOR MARICOPA K-12 CLASSROOMS Approve funding from TSMC, Arizona to the Maricopa County School Superintendent’s Office (MCSSO) to purchase Micro-Bit Classroom Kits for Maricopa K-12 schools. These Micro-Bit Classroom Kits are aimed to provide access to and enhance student experiential learning, technical skills and critical real-world learning significant to education development and our future workforce in Maricopa County. Teachers in Maricopa County will check-out the TSMC Classroom Kits to implement lessons with their classrooms. The TSMC funding award is in the amount of $13,136.00 for 250 Micro-bit Kits. The Micro-Bit Kits will be purchased in February 2023 with teachers to begin to check-out the Micro-Bit Kits in March 2023. This is new funding and is not expected to reoccur. The funding does not require an in-kind match. This is not a mandated function but provides a resource benefit to both Maricopa County teachers and students by removing teacher barriers to access classroom technology and increase student experiential learning and technical skills for education and future workforce development. As a result of this funding and pursuant to A.R.S. §42-17106(B), approve an adjustment to the FY 2023 County School Superintendent (D370) Schools Grants Fund (715) Operating (OPER) revenues and expenditures budget in the amount of $13,136.00. Donations are not local revenues for the purpose of the constitutional expenditure limitation, and therefore expenditure of the revenues is not prohibited by the budget law. This budget adjustment does not alter the budget constraining the expenditure of local revenues duly adopted by the Board pursuant to A.R.S. §42-17105. Funding for this Agreement is provided by TSMC and will not affect the County’s general fund. (C-37-23-021-X-00)

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