A message from Asst. Superintendent Steven Seaford
In the coming months, you will hear a lot about the South Pasadena Unified School District's budget and the steps that we'll need to take to respond to an ever-worsening State budget crisis. Here is what we know so far:
- For 2009-10, the District has projected total income of about $32,140,000 and expenditures of about $34,773,230. Deficit spending of about $2.6 million dollars has reduced a once healthy fund balance to an unrestricted balance of $2,802,000 at the end of this year.
- As of December, in order to maintain this ending fund balance in 2010-11 (which is recommended by the LA County Office of Education) the District has projected a need to reduce expenditures in 2010-11 by $2.4 million.
- In January, the Governor presented his proposed budget. Although he claimed that he would be protecting education, his budget includes an additional reduction of $225 per pupil in state revenue limit funds. For South Pasadena this will amount to another reduction of about $1,040,000 in 2010-11 and in future years.
Bottom Line: total amount of cuts that need to be made in our budget for 2010-11 add up to over $3.2 million. About 92% of our District's budget is people-employees salaries and benefits. To realize these cuts, we will need to look at all possible ways of cutting expenditures, most of which will inevitably involve employee expenditures.
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