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The Board of Education at the San Ramon Valley Unified School District is set to discuss how to proceed with required cuts to spending starting in the 2025-26 fiscal year following reductions this year to the state’s education budget and additional financial blows to the district.
Trustees will consider a resolution to officially direct district staff to begin seeking strategies to reduce costs in the next budget cycle at their regular meeting, where they are also poised to consider adopting a general fund budget and Local Control and Accountability Plan for the 2024-25 fiscal year ahead of the June 30 deadline for both.
“These difficult financial times will require the community to come together to identify solutions,” wrote Evan Miller, executive director of business services, in a staff report prepared for the upcoming meeting.
That process will include the launch of a Budget Advisory Committee in August, which will provide recommendations ahead of the first interim budget report in the 2024 to 2025 fiscal year for consideration in the district’s 2025 to 2026 budget.
“The identified strategies being recommended for reduction will be discussed at future board meetings/workshops,” Miller wrote. “Once a determination has been made, those reductions will be implemented as part of the District’s budget adoption in June 2025.”
The SRVUSD board is set to meet at 6 p.m. on Tuesday (June 18). The agenda is available here.
In other business
*In a closed session ahead of the public meeting, the board will discuss the appointment of an assistant high school principal and a director of transportation services.
*The board is set to consider proposed changes to three assistant superintendent contracts that would include a new salary schedule for the positions and the elimination of the longstanding “me too” provision that currently calls for the positions to be subject to pay increases in line with negotiated union agreements.
*The board is set to receive a presentation on results from a pre-election planning survey that was launched on May 8, the day after the May 7 special election in which two proposed parcel tax measures from the district failed to garner the votes required to pass.
