萨克拉门托联合学区要求校长削减本校预算10%：周三前交方案，只能动用品与外包、不能动工资，学区正填补1.745亿美元缺口
位于加利福尼亚州萨克拉门托县的萨克拉门托市，据《萨克拉门托蜜蜂报》报道并经教育媒体 EdSource 10月20日汇总，萨克拉门托市联合学区已要求各校校长把本校预算削减10%，校长须在本周三前提交削减方案，削减只能来自用品与对外合同等非人力支出，不能动工资。
学区首席商务官 Gerardo Castillo 表示，学区为「学校非人力支出」设定的削减目标是200万美元，涉及各校非限制性预算支付的用品与合同。学区同时启动学生出勤提升行动，希望增加按日均出勤计算的拨款，目标是增收250万美元。
该学区正努力填补1.745亿美元的资金缺口，学区领导层上周四宣布，缺口迄今已缩小4,980万美元。州财政危机与管理援助团队首席执行官 Michael Fine 今年8月对 EdSource 表示，如果学区无法筹到足额资金偿付账单，将须在明年1月初前向州议会求助；若学区接受州紧急贷款，校董会成员将失去决策权、改为接受州或县任命管理人的顾问角色。
Sacramento City Unified Asks Principals to Trim School Budgets by 10 Percent: Plans Due Wednesday, Cuts Limited to Supplies and Contracts as the District Works to Close a $174.5 Million Gap
Sacramento, California, in Sacramento County — Sacramento City Unified School District has asked its principals to trim their schools' budgets by 10 percent this school year, according to The Sacramento Bee, in a development summarized by the education news outlet EdSource on October 20. Principals have until Wednesday to submit plans to reduce spending on items such as supplies and outside contracts; the reductions cannot come from salaries.
Chief Business Officer Gerardo Castillo said the district set a $2 million target for cuts to what it called school-site non-personnel spending, with possible reductions to supplies and contracts paid from schools' unrestricted budgets. The district is also beginning a student attendance campaign to increase average daily attendance funding, with a goal of increasing revenue by $2.5 million.
The district is trying to close a $174.5 million funding gap, and district leaders announced on Thursday that they had reduced the gap by $49.8 million so far. If the district cannot come up with the money it needs to pay its bills, it will have to request help from the state Legislature by early January, Michael Fine, chief executive officer of the state Fiscal Crisis and Management Assistance Team, told EdSource in August; if the district took an emergency state loan, its school board members would be stripped of decision-making authority and become advisers to a state- or county-appointed administrator.
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