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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red">PLEASE do not reply to this email, contact Charles Burress at
<a href="mailto:charlesburress@berkeley.net" target="_blank">charlesburress@berkeley.net</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Dear BHS <span style="color:#1F497D">
F</span>amilies,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">A series of economic and fiscal conditions and factors are putting pressures on school district budgets across the State of California. One of these is the fact that there have been several
years in which state education funding has not kept pace with expenses. Furthermore, the mandate for funding state employee pensions has risen significantly (an estimated $1.3 million annual increase for Berkeley each year through 20-21), and school districts
have needed to address employee compensation after several lean years during the Great Recession (2007-2012).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">In order to ensure that the Berkeley Unified School District can continue with a balanced budget that earns a positive certification from the Alameda County Office of Education, the School
Board has set the goal of cutting $1.8 million in costs for the 2018-19 school year. Since a reduction in some General Fund budgets was already made for this current fiscal year, some difficult decisions will have to be made on reducing services, programs,
and/or staffing.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">With the School Board planning to make its final decision on budget reductions for the 2018-19 fiscal year at the Board meeting on Feb. 21, the Superintendent’s Budget Advisory Committee is
working to come up with specific recommendations to make to the Superintendent.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The <a href="http://www.berkeleyschools.net/departments/business-services-division/berkeley-unified-budget/superintendents-budget-advisory-committee-sbac/" target="_blank">
Superintendent’s Budget Advisory Committee</a> (SBAC), a key forum for discussing budget issues and developing recommendations, will devote two upcoming meetings to the recommendations. The SBAC meetings are scheduled at the District office, 2020 Bonar St.,
at 5:30 p.m. on<b> Tuesday, January 16 and Tuesday, January 23.</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The <a href="http://www.berkeleyschools.net/schoolboard/board-meeting-information/" target="_blank">
School Board</a> will include discussion of the budget at its two upcoming meetings:
<b>Wednesday, January 24 and Wednesday, February 7</b>. The board will devote the February 21 Board Meeting to the budget and plans to take action on any cuts that may be necessary to meet the budget development timeline that ensures a balanced budget can be
presented and approved by June 30. The open session of Board meetings begins at 7:30 pm. You can check the
<a href="http://www.berkeleyschools.net/" target="_blank">meeting agenda</a>, which is posted late Friday before the Wednesday meeting, to get a better idea of when the topic will be taken up. Board meetings are held in the Board Room, 1231 Addison St.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="http://www.berkeleyschools.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/12-05-2017-SBAC-Summary-of-Budget-Reductions.pdf" target="_blank">Preliminary ideas for budget reductions</a> were presented
at the Dec. 5 SBAC meeting.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Note: At the time of this writing, the
</span></i><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="http://ebudget.ca.gov/FullBudgetSummary.pdf?_cldee=Y2hhcmxlc2J1cnJlc3NAYmVya2VsZXkubmV0&recipientid=contact-dd858acc9902e71180f0005056b02a09-439840633c944102b038b08a06999865&esid=7a3c492e-50f6-e711-810e-005056b02a09" target="_blank"><i>Governor’s
January Budget proposal</i></a> <i>was just released, and the estimates above do not necessarily reflect that information. We will continue to keep the community updated as the Governor’s proposal makes its way through negotiations with the legislature and
into the final state budget (usually approved in June).<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">BUSD Public Information Office<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Berkeley Unified School District<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="tel:(510)%20644-6320" target="_blank">510-644-6320</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="mailto:charlesburress@berkeley.net" target="_blank">charlesburress@berkeley.net</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:navy">BHS etree archives:
</span><a href="http://lists.lmi.net/pipermail/bhs/" target="_blank" title="http://lists.lmi.net/pipermail/bhs/"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">http://lists.lmi.net/pipermail/bhs/</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:navy">BHS website:
</span><a href="http://bhs.berkeleyschools.net/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">http://bhs.berkeleyschools.net/</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;background:white">BUSD 2017-2017 Calendar:</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#4F81BD;background:white">
</span><a href="http://bit.ly/BUSDCalendar"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0070C0;background:white">http://bit.ly/BUSDCalendar</span></a><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#4F81BD;background:white">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#17365D;background:white">BUSD Non-Discrimination Statement / la Política de No Discriminación:</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#4F81BD;background:white"> </span><a href="http://bit.ly/BUSDNDPolicy" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";background:white">http://bit.ly/BUSDNDPolicy</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:navy">To
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