(1) Converts eight existing business and fiscal officer positions to new complex area administrative services manager positions; and

(2) Establishes seven new complex area administrative services manager positions;

(3) Provides that the complex area administrative services managers shall: be assigned duties and responsibilities by the Department of Education; assume responsibilities previously held by district business and fiscal officers; and undertake new responsibilities for coordinating and preparing budget documents and managing funds and assisting and advising complex area staff on procurement and contract administration;

(4) Appropriates funds to establish fifteen complex area administrative services manager positions and to convert forty-two full-time business assistant positions from temporary status to permanent status, and requires them to report to the complex area administrative services managers; and

(5) Appropriates funds for a management or engineering consultant to study the existing school repair and maintenance backlog in the Department of Education and to submit findings and recommendations to Legislature not less than twenty days prior to the convening of the regular session of 2004.