DVUSD News - DVUSD Override Election Does Not Pass

From: "DVUSD News" <no-reply@dvusd.org>
Subject: DVUSD News - DVUSD Override Election Does Not Pass
Date: November 3rd 2010

DVUSD Override Election Does Not Pass

Voters in Deer Valley Unified School District (DVUSD) failed to pass the Maintenance and Operations Override election on Tuesday, November 2. Without the successful passage of this special election, the following $5.5 million in reductions will be necessary for the 2011-12 school year:

•       2% salary reduction for all employees
•       Increase class size by +1 student for every grade level
•       $200,000 from extracurricular activities
•       $200,000 support services staff
•       $164,000 from district department and school budgets

The next time the DVUSD Governing Board can call for a Maintenance and Operations Override Election is November, 2011. Should that election fail, the district would then need to reduce its 2012-13 budget by 5.5 million a year, each year for the next two years.

For on-going information about the 2011-12 budget development process, please go to Budget 411 on the district’s website, http://www.dvusd.org/budget411.