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New Haven Unified board approves 2024–25 budget, orders bond election and ratifies multiple agreements
Summary
At its June 18 meeting the board approved the 2024–25 proposed budget and related resolution, authorized a school bond election, adopted the LCAP, ratified tentative agreements with certificated and administrative bargaining units, approved personnel contract amendments, increased trustee stipends by 5%, and adopted several instructional materials and a new course pathway for James Logan High School.
The New Haven Unified School District board moved quickly through a slate of action items at its June 18 meeting, approving the district’s Local Control and Accountability Plan sections, the proposed 2024–25 budget (Resolution No. 093 D23224), and a resolution ordering a school bond election (Resolution No. 08-2324).
Board members also approved the public disclosure of a collective-bargaining agreement for unrepresented classified employees, ratified a tentative agreement between the district and the New Haven Teachers Association for 2024–27, and ratified a tentative agreement with the New Haven Administrators Association for 2024–27. The board approved amended contracts for the assistant superintendents of business; personnel; teaching and learning; and the superintendent.
On compensation for trustees, the board approved a 5% increase in the monthly board stipend for trustees Michael Gonzalez, Vanessa Hernandez, Shuti Kumar, Lance Nishihira and Shamsa Rafay, raising the stipend from $441 to $463 effective July 1, 2024.
Instructional materials and courses were also approved: AP Chemistry (14th Edition) and other specified texts were adopted, along with an Experience Physics textbook and a Chinese textbook (Zang Bang Chinese Level One), and new multi-course alternative pathway offerings at James Logan High School beginning fall 2024.
Most approvals were taken by motion, second, and voice vote; the transcript records the board’s voice approval language (“all in favor say ‘Aye’… oppos[e] say ‘nay’”), but does not provide roll-call tallies or individual member votes. The consent agenda (items 13.1–13.42) was approved in a single voice vote with no items pulled for separate consideration.
The board did not provide additional substantive debate on the individual action items during the meeting and all recorded action items carried as moved.
