Budget Update Q&A: Board to review interim budget report Thursday
The Folsom Cordova Board of Education will receive its first interim budget report of the fiscal year as the District continues to identify long-term solutions to its budget deficit.
The first interim report, a summary of which can be viewed here, reflects the $5.3 million in ongoing and one-time cost-cutting measures that have already been approved for the current school year and the following (2020-21) - but forecasts that the District will be in the red more than $4.4 million in the 2021-22 school year without additional reductions.
School districts across California are facing budget deficits as rising costs outpace revenues. Since 2018, Folsom Cordova's Board of Education has held five budget study sessions and additional Board meetings on the District's fiscal challenges. To help identify solutions, the District has been working for months with its employee union leaders, staff, families, and students to identify reductions that can minimize staff layoffs and avoid impacts to student learning.
Boundaries update: Draft Vista del Lago registration policy available for review
When the Board of Education approved the District's attendance boundary adjustment at the Nov. 21 meeting, it also asked District staff to draft a registration priority and criteria that will be used to manage a 1,900 enrollment cap at Vista del Lago. Our families are invited to review the draft materials that are going forward to the Board at its next meeting on Thursday, Dec. 19:
Draft registration policy:Click here for the full draft document.
School Boundary Modification summary:Click here for more details regarding how the boundary adjustment will be implemented per the Board's decision on Nov. 21.
