Greetings San Marino Parents, Staff, Students, and Community Members,
I hope you and your loved ones are staying well during these difficult days.
I want to bring to your attention the recently launched
"WE ARE SAN MARINO"
campaign to save 20 teacher and counselor positions here in SMUSD
(
WeAreSanMarino.smsf.org
)
. I am so appreciative and excited to partner with our San Marino Schools Foundation as it has taken on the great responsibility of providing funding to restore the lost positions to our students and schools. Never has it been more important for the community to understand the immense need and critical timing of this campaign. WE NEED YOUR HELP
NOW
!
Before the COVID-19 crisis, San Marino Unified had arrived at a critical financial status -- annually operating with significant budget deficits and having reached the minimum legal budget reserves of 3%. The plan for recovery was simple -- significantly reduce costs while building reliable and consistent local revenue streams. The State of California has abdicated its responsibilities in fairly funding districts like San Marino, and it has become clear that we must take control ourselves to ensure the continuity and improvement of our schools for generations to come.
Now, with an anticipated plunge in State revenues associated with the COVID-19 crisis, our needs have become even more critical.
"California's state government will spend about $7 billion on COVID-19 response in 2020, putting strains on the state budget unlike any seen since the Great Recession,"
California Finance Department Director Keely Martin Bosler wrote in a letter to state lawmakers on Friday, April 10. Since California
relies on a combination of personal income tax, corporate tax, and sales tax to fund infrastructure, schools, and healthcare, we should anticipate a significant downward revision in state and federal funding.
What that means for San Marino is a likely 20% or greater reduction in our current revenue streams.
While we continue to reduce expenditures over the coming months, I am asking that every parent, grandparent, aunt, uncle, former parent and loved one of a current, future or former student stand with us in this time and
BE COUNTED
. I am pleading with every community member who understands there is an unequivocal relationship between outstanding schools and high property values to stand with us and
BE COUNTED
. I am imploring the entire amazing town of San Marino to stand together in this moment and
BE COUNTED
.
As this crisis unfolds over the coming months and while school districts all around us will engage in draconian measures to reduce costs, there is ONE THING I am confident concerning San Marino...we have the resources in our community to not only survive this devastating time period but to actually THRIVE and become stronger and more self-reliant as a school district.
We MUST raise $2.3 Million so that our Board of Education can rescind all 20 teacher and counselor layoffs at its May 12 School Board meeting.
Please take that crucial and right step today by logging-on to the
"WE ARE SAN MARINO"
web page and make that sacrificial gift to save our teachers and schools here in this marvelous city.
From the bottom of my heart, THANK YOU!
Warmly,
Dr. Jeff Wilson, Superintendent
San Marino Unified School District
*请在图形下方找到中文翻译。
在此問候聖馬力諾學區的家長們、教職工們、學生們和社區成員們。
希望您和您的家人在這段困難的日子裡都能保持良好的狀態。
我想請您關注最近發起的"
我們是聖馬力諾
"的運動，目的是讓聖馬利諾學區保留20個老師和顧問職位（詳情請訪問：
WeAreSanMarino.smsf.org
）。我很感激也很激動與我們的聖馬力諾學校基金會合作，因為它承擔了提供資金為學生和學校挽回所失去職位的巨大責任。了解這項運動的巨大需求和緊迫性對我們的社區來說從來沒有像現在這樣重要。我們
現在
需要您的幫助！
在COVID-19危機之前，聖馬力諾聯合學區已處於嚴峻的財務狀況--年度的運營存在嚴重的預算赤字，並且已達到最低法定預算儲備的3％。解決方案很簡單，即大幅度地降低開銷，同時建立可靠且持久的本地收入來源。加州已經不再承擔為聖馬力諾這樣的學區提供充足資金的責任，在現實面前我們必須自立更生，以確保為子孫後代持續完善我們的學校。
現在，隨著與COVID-19危機有關的國家稅收的預期下降，我們的需求變得更加至關重要。加州財政部主任基利·馬丁·博斯勒（Keely Martin Bosler）在4月10週五寫給州議員的信中寫道："加州州政府將在2020年花費約70億美元用於應對COVID-19，這給州預算帶來了自大蕭條以來從未經歷的壓力。" 加州依靠個人所得稅、公司稅和營業稅的組合來為基礎設施、學校和醫療保健提供資金，由此我們可以預期州和聯邦政府的撥款將大幅下調。對於聖馬力諾學區而言，這意味著我們目前的收入來源可能會減少20％或更多。
在未來幾個月，我們將繼續減少支出，同時我要求每位父母、祖父母、阿姨、叔叔、曾經的學區家長們和每一位關愛正在、將來或曾經就讀本學區的學生的人站在我們身邊，成為我們的一員。我向每個了解優質學校與高地產價值之間有著明確關聯性的社區成員發出懇求，請與我們站在一起和並肩作戰。我懇求整個聖馬力諾小鎮在這一刻站在一起並願負一己之力。
隨著未來數月危機的蔓延，當我們周圍的各個學區採取嚴格的措施來降低成本時，我對聖馬力諾學區充滿信心......我們擁有的社區資源不僅可以讓我們度過這個具有毀滅性的時期，而且可以讓我們蓬勃發展，並成為一個更加強大和可以自力更生的學區。
我們必須籌集到230萬美元，以便我們的教育委員會可以在5月12日的教育委員會會議上取消所有20名老師和顧問的裁員計畫。
由衷地感謝您！
溫暖的問候，
Jeff Wilson博士
