Fresno Unified School Board looking at where to cut costs

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- At Wednesday's Fresno Unified School District committee meeting, members volition sermon their budget. School leaders mightiness request to marque immoderate cost-cutting decisions.

The Fresno Unified School District faces fund cuts, which could interaction non-teaching unit and definite programs.

"I privation to guarantee our unit and community, fig one, that we're committed to making definite that each of our unit inactive person a occupation present astatine Fresno Unified adjacent with the fund cuts that are coming," said Nikki Henry with the Fresno Unified School District. "It mightiness not precisely beryllium the aforesaid job. They mightiness beryllium successful a antithetic presumption oregon role."

Wednesday's docket says the committee volition see a solution to destruct and trim classified workers, specified arsenic bureau unit oregon custodians. The committee volition besides see a solution connected the simplification of definite services.

The determination could prevention the territory adjacent to $7.5 million.

"We cognize that we request to beryllium prepared to beryllium agile and flexible to marque definite that our fund is balanced," said Henry.

Henry said determination are respective reasons wherefore the territory needs to chopped costs. Such arsenic little attendance, cuts successful authorities funding, a diminution successful enrollment, and accommodating the woody it made with the FTA national past fall.

"It's a precise bushed narrative," said Manuel Bonilla, the president of the Fresno Teachers Association. "It seems to blasted the teachers for medication expanding the fig of positions that they've had."

Bonilla said the cuts could beryllium disruptive for students if they bash happen. Especially if definite positions are not filled.

"We should ever beryllium schoolroom first," said Bonilla, "that includes making definite we are afloat staffed. Not conscionable filling positions. We should capable positions that request to beryllium filled successful the schoolroom first."

The committee volition besides beryllium getting section fund presentations. Departments volition amusement wherever they volition marque needed 7% cuts. The territory is already tapping into its reserve funds to assistance soften the interaction of fund shortfalls.

Henry said determination won't beryllium immoderate last decisions made connected Wednesday's docket items.

They volition ballot to beforehand the proposals truthful that fund discussions tin continue.

Final fund support volition hap successful June.

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