presentation<\/a> the district\u2019s new interim chief business officer, Lisa Grant-Dawson, will deliver at a special board meeting Thursday night.<\/p>\nSince September, the district has been grappling with a multi-million-dollar budget crisis after uncovering a $45 million shortfall from last year. Sacramento City Unified could be out of cash as soon as this summer, according to both staff and external evaluations.<\/p>\n
In response, trustees approved a slew of budget cuts in November. Implementation , according to some board members, anxious for an update on any improvements.<\/p>\n
Grant-Dawson started her role in January. In her first presentation to the board, she noted multiple potential deficiencies with the district\u2019s current rightsizing plan. <\/p>\n
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$32 million unaccounted for<\/p>\n
Among the savings measures the district has employed so far was a one-time adjustment that allowed them to save about $32 million on employee health benefits for this fiscal year.<\/p>\n
What would have been about a $140 million dollar expenditure shrunk to just over $108 million.<\/p>\n
However, according to Grant-Dawson\u2019s presentation, staff incorrectly used that $108 million figure when projecting costs for the next two school years, when they should have used $140 million.<\/p>\n
That missing $32 million needs to be accounted for looking at the district\u2019s future deficits \u2014 \u201cotherwise, they are understated,\u201d the slides read.<\/p>\n
Sacramento City Unified could be short closer to $123.8 million in summer 2027, according to preliminary estimates in Grant-Dawson\u2019s presentation. She is expected to discuss details further at tonight\u2019s meeting.<\/p>\n
Savannah Kuchar\u00a0is a reporter covering education. She came to Sacramento to be a part of the Abridged team and contribute to a crucial local news source.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Abridged version: Sacramento City Unified was expected to have an $86.7 million deficit after next school year.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156047,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[5592,121,123,122,10540],"class_list":{"0":"post-156046","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sacramento","8":"tag-feature","9":"tag-sacramento","10":"tag-sacramento-headlines","11":"tag-sacramento-news","12":"tag-top-story"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}