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Pajaro Valley Unified budget team narrows options and recommends scaled cuts to meet $5M reduction
Summary
A sustainable-budget committee reviewed five options to meet at least $5 million in reductions, favoring a modified Plan B and a combination plan (D) that would reduce some district-office costs, trim certain one-time-funded positions and partially scale back mental-health and intervention roles while preserving minimum counseling at each site.
Members of the Pajaro Valley Unified Sustainable Budget Team on Dec. (presentation meeting) reviewed five proposals to close an expected roughly $5 million shortfall and coalesced around a modified Plan B and a combination Plan D as recommended options for the school board.
A district staff presenter said the team’s charge was to identify two options for trustees to consider and emphasized that any changes to class size would be decided at the bargaining table, not unilaterally by the district. The presenter outlined Plan A (a right-sizing approach including additional district-office reductions, cuts to academic coordinator positions and reduced elementary release time) and Plan B (reductions to programs funded by one-time ESSER dollars, targeted reductions to social-emotional positions and a…
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