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Superintendent's Message, May 22, 2020: Governor's Budget

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May 22, 2020

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Sebastopol Union family I'm under Irving your superintendent and today is Friday May 22nd I'm here to provide you some information on the release of the governor's 2021 budget and it's back to our schools we are expecting the largest cuts to education and State history all while we're preparing to reopen with extraordinary increase cost for example in personal protective equipment tpe in distance classes with smaller class sizes and increase supervision needs for sanitation and cleaning supplies and providing needed technology children all of this with the largest cut the education and State history has school scrambling and Sebastopol Union is no exception how we do more with less is the million-dollar question in this video I would like to take you from a wide overview at the state and federal level to how this will affect your school district Sebastopol Union the economy is not shouldering the burden of covid-19 very well all you have to do is look at the sky unemployment rate and the fact that people are making and spending less money and you know the budget picture is not going to be good all of this makes matters more challenging we won't know the full impact 2021 budget until the fall just to start with the big picture 70% of the state's revenue is made up of personal income tax and the deadline for personal income tax it has been pushed back to July 15th of that 70% personal income tax the majority of it comes from the highest income earners or what we often call the one percenters and their capital gain I'm such now taxes are not due till mid-july the second largest revenue for the state comes from sales tax and I don't need to tell you that people are spending less money the legislative analyst office or the lamo is projecting a 15 billion dollar store fall to the California Budget over the next three years there is federal legislation that has currently what's the house but it is headed for a difficult time in the Senate it's called the heroes act and it is a 3 trillion dollar offset to expected income that will not be arriving Nationwide what does it mean for Sebastopol schools the governor has implemented a 10% cut to our largest funding source called lcff the local control funding formula along with the 0% cost of living adjustment or Cola and number terms we received 4.4 million dollars in lcff and this cat would be close to half a million of Revenue weeks or over $1,000 student lost so what are we doing about this currently we're going line-by-line examining the budget we are also forming a budget committee made up of teacher staff community members trustees in CBO Chief business official Sarah lamp info the good news is that we have a reserve for economic uncertainties and a new facility Bond thank you for that are parcel tax is expiring at the end of this year 2021 adding another additional challenge to the mix weather we experienced a u-shape recovery or an L-shaped slower recovery the projections are for 2 to 3 years of difficult set times we will not have solid numbers until after the personal income taxes come in sometime after July 15th we are expecting a large revision to the state and our local at the spa at that time we hope to have received guidance on reopening how attendance will be calculated for Revenue purposes and what the cleaning and monitoring protocols will be at this time none of that is clear what do we do right now we wrap up this year with acknowledgement of a job well-done we recognize our graduates and celebrate their success we take a breath we enjoy the spring and take a summer break you deserve it by mid-july will have more answers budget numbers guidance on opening and the trajectory of the virus for now please know we are brainstorming scenario and we expect to reopen on August 13th exactly what this looks like remains uncertain I will keep you posted as we learn more by working with our education and Health Department Partners please check the website and your email for Reg update thanks for hanging in there with us during this crazy and uncertain time enjoy your summer Sebastopol Union appreciate each and everyone of you

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