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Parents and board spar over $20k–$33k leadership conference expense as district cites budget shortfall
Summary
Board members and community speakers questioned a proposed summer leadership conference trip to San Diego paid from general fund/budgeted building dollars while the district faces a year-to-date budget shortfall; staff and teachers described program benefits but some board members asked administrators to justify use of taxpayer funds.
Several board members and many members of the public pressed administrators about a leadership-conference trip to San Diego that district materials show will draw on previously approved school budgets and, in the case presented at the meeting, a portion of general-fund dollars.
Board member Shane (last name not specified in the transcript) and others said the district faces a year-to-date budget shortfall and noted public concern that roughly $20,000–$33,474 used previously for a similar…
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