Newman school district to vote on $1.1 million cut

NEWMAN -- The Newman-Crows Landing Unified School District board will meet at 6 p.m. tonight to vote on cutting $1.1 million from the district's budget for 2012-13, which starts July 1.

The district proposes slashing bus service, putting off maintenance, trimming what school sites can spend, doing without travel or training for staff and tech support for its attendance program, according to budget workshop documents.

Under the plan, one principal would drop to half time and one dean would lose hours. A music teaching post could be eliminated.

The district will attempt to negotiate imposing up to six furlough days in contracts with employee groups, as well as freezing automatic seniority and education increases.

Ideas shot down at a budget hearing last week included eliminating freshman and sophomore sports and ending the contract for a school resource officer. Those ideas are not in the package of cuts up for approval tonight.

The Newman-Crows Landing Unified School District Board will meet at 6 p.m. at the McConnell Adult Education Center, 1348 Patchett Drive, Newman. To see the proposed budget reductions, visit http://bit.ly/Newman-CLbudget.