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Apple Valley board keeps temporary cash-borrowing authority, approves expenditure-reduction plan amid union protests
Summary
Trustees voted Jan. 21 to retain temporary interfund borrowing authority and adopted Resolution 2526-06 to require near-term expenditure reductions, after heated public comment from teachers and union leaders who said the district has lacked transparency and negotiated in bad faith.
The Apple Valley Unified School District Board of Trustees on Jan. 21 voted to maintain temporary authority for short-term cash transfers between district funds and approved a resolution authorizing targeted expenditure reductions for 2025–26 and 2026–27.
The board’s action keeps in place a resolution that allows the superintendent or designee to move cash between district funds to cover immediate obligations and then repay those advances when state or federal apportionments arrive. Chief Financial Officer Matthew Schulenberg told the board the transfers are cash-management moves, not budget changes, and that recent heavy activity largely reflected timing of state and federal apportionments and an unusual federal cash…
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