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Board hears LCAP revision after year of reconfiguration; unions and staff urge more collaboration
Summary
Trustees received the district’s revised Local Control and Accountability Plan (LCAP) revision and heard reports from labor partners who said the process was rushed and that staff and classified employees were insufficiently involved amid reconfiguration and layoffs.
The Santa Rosa Board of Education on June 11 received a presentation on the revised Local Control and Accountability Plan (LCAP) for 2025–26 and heard critiques from labor groups and staff who said the timeline and engagement were compressed by the district’s reconfiguration work.
Doctor Roderick Castro, Doctor Luslena Perez and Alisa Haley summarized the LCAP revision, saying it reflects district restructuring, clarified staffing ratios, improved transparency in resource allocation and efforts to align restricted funding to student needs. Doctor Perez said the revision included recalculations and clarified distinctions between base and supplemental resources as the district reset staffing ratios and responded to community input.
Representatives from California School Employees Association (CSEA, Santa Rosa Unit 75) and the Santa Rosa Teachers Association (SRTA) addressed the board in public comment and during reports. A CSEA representative said the district faces “a $25,000,000 structural deficit with reserves projected at negative 4.61% this year,” described the personal impact of layoffs on classified staff and urged more inclusion in planning. SRTA President Catherine Howell said the LCAP process “felt like a formality, not a partnership” and criticized how some positions were removed and then recreated in new descriptions, saying the timing and communication worsened staff turnover.
In response, Interim Superintendent Lisa August acknowledged the difficulty of this year’s LCAP process and apologized to labor partners for compressed timelines. She said the district intends to improve consultation in future years and noted that the revisions reflected stakeholder input collected during an unusually intensive period of community meetings related to school consolidations.
The board also received individual charter LCAP revisions during the meeting (Cesar Chavez Language Academy, Santa Rosa Accelerated Charter School, Santa Rosa Charter School for the Arts, Santa Rosa French American Charter School). District staff explained that dependent charters receive some pass‑through funds and separately bill back for shared services; the district will refine billing and charter allocations for 2025–26.
Trustees and presenters said they would work to reframe outreach language and lower technical barriers so more parents and community members take part in future LCAP discussions. The board closed the public hearing on the district LCAP and on each charter LCAP; final LCAP documents and calculated expenditures will be included with the budget adoption materials.
