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Board hears that staffing cuts or furlough days could be needed if funding falls short
Summary
Board members discussed how different budget scenarios would translate into staffing reductions, how natural attrition and retirements are being counted, and the district's approach to position control; staff laid out rough estimates linking dollars to positions and described steps already taken to limit layoffs.
Board members spent substantial time during the Feb. 19 budget work session asking how different funding outcomes would affect staff levels and classroom services.
Superintendent Dr. Kibler said last year's furlough days were a temporary measure and would need to be accounted for in the next fiscal year to avoid repeating them. She said the district is not basing next year's plan on attrition, though natural retirements and resignations are being counted in models: "We're basically saying that we're not gonna use attrition rate at all. So if we do have some teachers leave, that would help the situation. Oh. But we're not basing it on that," she said.
Staff presented a simple planning marker that the district uses to estimate positions: about $100,000 per full position (roughly 10 positions per $1 million). Using that marker, the district estimated that an "all-in" scenario around $9.9 million would imply eliminating roughly 30 positions in the mid-sized scenarios discussed. Dr. Kibler and staff emphasized that cuts would come from across the district — central office, schools, support and certified staff — and that the district has already used hiring freezes, position control and other reductions to limit the number of furlough days experienced last year.
Board members asked for clarity on deadlines tied to personnel decisions: for conditional certificated staff the notification date was noted as May 1, and for tenured employees the date mentioned was June 15. Several board members asked for detailed, school-level active employee lists and enrollment-by-school breakdowns; staff said those documents were shared in the meeting folder and will be updated as needed.
Ending: Staff said they have already started building models that map funding scenarios to staffing outcomes and will continue revising those models weekly ahead of the Feb. 26 work session.
