STATE BUDGET REBUKE
The board is slated to consider a resolution rebuking the 2008-09 state budget proposal, which addresses a shortfall of $14.5 billion, in part, with spending cuts in kindergarten through 12th-grade public education.
The proposed budget is slated to either reduce or suspend Proposition 98 funds for schools, which could mean statewide teacher layoffs and increases in class size.
In that last several years, the Burbank Unified School District has already incurred cuts of more than $7 million, which officials say obstruct their efforts to ensure up-to-date textbooks, ongoing teacher training and small class sizes.
Further cuts would take another $11 million from the district’s budget.
WHAT TO EXPECT
The resolution is intended to carry out the board’s charge to ensure district students thrive under their leadership, according to staff reports. The board is expected to pass the resolution.
In passing the resolution, the board would join other unions, boards and advocacy groups, including the California Federation of Teachers, the Service Employees International Union and the California County Superintendents Educational Services Assn.
BURBANK HIGH ANNIVERSARY
Burbank High School Principal Bruce Osgood will present information to the board regarding the school’s upcoming 100th anniversary.
Planned celebration festivities, which are planned for September, include campus tours, a catered dinner with performances by student music and performing groups, and a parade from McCambridge Park to Burbank High, with alumni and current bands and cheerleaders participating, as well as former teachers and administrators and the school’s oldest living alumni.
WHAT TO EXPECT
No action will be taken.
CONFLICT OF INTEREST RULES
The board will consider revising a bylaw governing disclosure of conflict of interest among district employees. An independent auditing firm has suggested that several positions in the district’s Business Services Department — including budget supervisor, accounting supervisor, buyer and purchasing technician — be subjected to the board’s conflict-of-interest policies.
The board’s policy requires employees in certain positions and officials to provide information regarding all business positions, investments or income related to companies that manufacture, provide or sell products or services to the district.
Some positions already bound by conflict-of-interest provisions include board of education members, the superintendent and deputy and assistant superintendents.
WHAT TO EXPECT
The board will vote on whether to approve the revision as recommended by the district’s contracted auditing firm, Vicenti, Lloyd and Stutzman.
