[BHS etree] SUPT: Superintendent's Budget Advisory Committee and Recommended Budget Cuts

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Superintendent's Budget Advisory Committee and Recommended Budget Cuts

In response to the Governor's announcement that his recommended budget
would strip $4.5 billion from California Public Schools next year, with at
least $3.2 million from Berkeley schools, the Superintendent  asked his
staff to make a preliminary list of budget reductions. This list is being
reviewed by a new committee called the Superintendent's Budget Advisory
Committee.  This committee, comprised of half employees and half community
members, is meeting at least 4 times this spring, and will review the
proposals, making their own recommendations to the Superintendent. The
Superintendent then will take the best ideas from each group forward when
he submits his recommendation to the Board in May.  The Board will make
all final decisions and must pass a balanced budget by the end of June.

List of members of Superintendent's Budget Advisory Committee:
Chair, Deputy Superintendent Javetta Robinson-Cleveland
Beatriz Leyva-Cutler, Bernadette Cormier (Alt.) Cathy Campbell, Catherine
Lazio, Cathryn Bruno, Cynthia Allman, Dan Lindheim, Gwyneth Galbraith
(Alt.) Jamie Carlson, Jan Deblasi, Jason Lustig,  Jenny Burroughs, Julie
Holcomb,  Kris Amaral, Marshall Genn, Michael McBride, Paula Phillips,
Eric Weaver (Alt.), Tim Donnelly

See the Recommended Budget Cuts and follow the committee's meeting notes
as they go through the process at the BUSD website:
http://www.berkeley.net/index.php?page=sbac


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Mark A. Coplan
Public Information Officer, BUSD
510-644-6320
Mark_Coplan at berkeley.k12.ca.us
Berkeley Unified School District
2134 Martin Luther King Jr. Way
Berkeley, Ca 94704-1180