Capistrano district can survive, with pay cuts, chief says

01-20-2010

By Scott Martindale/Orange County Register

The Capistrano Unified School District faces at least a $21.5 million deficit over the next 18 months, but stands poised to close its budget gap through sound financial planning and aggressive cost-cutting measures, including seeking deep pay cuts from employees, Interim Superintendent Bobbi Mahler said Tuesday night. Speaking at a town hall meeting at Dana Hills High School in Dana Point, Mahler said Orange County's second largest district has been able to reduce its projected 2010-11 budget deficit by about $4 million over the past few months by reorganizing its various departments and fine-tuning its spending plan. Even so, Capistrano must continue to push hard for permanent, 10 percent pay cuts from its teachers and other employees, and brace for up to $12.5 million in additional cuts in 2010-11, based on Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's current budget proposals, the interim schools chief said. "We are all going to have to make tough concessions," Mahler told an audience of about 50 people. " (more...)

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