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• Machinery and Tools and Business and Professional Occupational License taxes comprise a major part of our city's budgets and are extremely important to local government revenue streams. Any attempts to eliminate or reduce these taxes, unless included with an altemative funding mechanism, are opposed. Increase funding for recruiting STEM teachers in challenging middle and high schools to $1.5 million in FY 2020. • Increase the Virginia Preschool Initiative per pupil amount to $6500 full day and $3250 for half day in FY 2020. New nolicv positions: In order to fund education initiatives, VFC advocates a two- pronged approach to respond to federal tax changes. 1. Return the revenues attributable to the federal individual income tax changes to the citizens via an increase to the state Standard Income Tax Deduction and/or provide a Refundable Earned Income Tax Credit. 2. Retain the revenues associated with the permanent business provisions and use for additional K -12 funding. • Support for Virginia Early Childhood Success, to promote a vision for a cohesive early childhood system for Virginia -- in statute, as well as demonstration, through a funded pilot project initiative. Especially for low- income communities, the state should provide seamless, affordable access for the most at -risk families to quality early childhood services — including home visiting, subsidized child care, and preschool. Low - income working families need accommodations for their children for more than the 9:00 am - 2:30 pm, 180 days a year routine for the Virginia Preschool Initiative (VPI). Virginia should ensure affordable access to stable, quality childcare for children (infants, toddlers, and preschoolers) as the best investment in young children and their families and the long -term economic health of the community. Health & Human Services Long -term policy position: Restore funding cuts to Community Services Boards (CSB). The adopted state FY 2019 and FY 2020 budgets included reductions to CSB funding with the assumption that if the CSBs enrolled more clients because of Medicaid expansion, the state would make up the funding. However, there will be a major gap - Therefore, the General Assembly should restore the FY 2019 funding and reexamine the funding for FY 2020. 4