School board directs superintendent to prepare $7.5 million in ongoing cuts; union speaker demands trustee resignation

The Apple Valley Unified Board of Trustees voted in closed session to direct the superintendent to prepare and present resolutions outlining reductions in force to achieve a minimum of $7,500,000 in ongoing expenditure cuts.

The action was reported aloud after the trustees returned from closed session at noon. The clerk said the superintendent was "directed to prepare and present resolutions detailing the necessary reduction in force to achieve a minimum of a $7,500,000 reduction in ongoing expenditures," and to "explicitly delineate the positions within the unrepresented unit of employees, the certificated bargaining unit, and the classified bargaining unit that will be affected." The motion passed by roll call: Amanda Buchanan, yes; Maria Akpara, yes; Anita Tucker, absent; Rick Raleigh, yes; Renee Longshore, no.

The clerk read a set of Education Code…