Special Budget Update Message from Supt. Terry Grier

As part of our ongoing efforts to communicate with our school community and the public, I recorded a video message to share the facts about the budget challenges our Board of Education is facing to balance our budget for the 2009/10 school year. (If you can't watch the video online, there's a transcript available in English and Spanish. [PDF])

In addition, a letter from the County Office of Education [PDF] was provided to our Finance Division earlier this week. This letter describes the general process for county office approval, denial, or conditional approval of a school district’s budget. It also describes the intervention actions that occur if the county office conditionally approves and/or disapproves a budget.

Thank you for your continued patience and support during this unprecedented budget crisis. If you have any ideas for the Board’s budget deliberations, please share with me at (619) 725-5506 or send me an e-mail.