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School trustees hear proposed budget summary for coming year Susan Hiland
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FAIRFIELD — The Fairfield-Suisun School District should start the year with a bit more money set aside than is required by the state but will have to keep a watchful eye in coming years when budget cuts may be required. Trustees heard a presentation on a draft of the budget for the 2021-22 school year when they met Thursday. Laneia Grindle, director of Fiscal Services, said the budget is based on the governor’s proposed budget, which means it might be revised over the next month and a half. Cost of living adjustments are at 5.07%. The state COLA is at 4.05% for special education funding, and other categorical programs are at a 1.7% statutory COLA. The 2021-22 budget starts on a positive front with a “mega” COLA of
5.07% and significant one-time Covid-19 relief funding, Grindle said. There’s more than the minimum state reserve requirement of 3%: The proposed budget shows the Special Reserve Fund (Fund 17) at 3.77% of the district’s general fund budget. Grindle said the Revolving Cash Funds has $50,000, which she said would not be enough to cover a month of payroll costs. There is $23,226 for Stores Inventory and $4,968 for Prepaid Expenditures. Enrollment for next year is projected at 20,926 students. Overall enrollment is expected to decrease over the next five years, Grindle said. This decrease might be larger than predicted due to the Covid-19 pandemic. She said that has been the case across the state. Staffing assumptions are predicted to be
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Alex Briones is the general manager of the new Dave & Buster’s at the Solano Town Center in Fairfield.
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FAIRFIELD — Trustees who represent the community on the Fairfield-Suisun School District governing board got a look Thursday at a report that’s required by the state and is designed to show how the district is spending a good portion of its state allotment. Sheila McCabe, assistant superintendent of Educational Services, briefed the board on the specifics of the proposed plan. The state requires school districts to adopt a three-year plan that must address eight state priority areas within the scope of the plan, McCabe said. Numerous stakeholders were engaged in the process of developing the draft plan for the Fairfield-Suisun district, she said. McCabe said the plan includes three parts: a
Local Control Funding Formula budget overview for parents; the Local Control and Accountability Plan (2019-20) and the Learning Continuity Plan (2020-21) Annual Update; and the 2021-24 Local Control and Accountability Plan. The Legislature under former Gov. Jerry Brown changed how school districts receive a significant portion of their funding, giving individual schools district more flexibility in how they spend the money. Accompanying the change was a requirement to produce a Local Control and Accountability Plan and to report the district’s educational plans and spending to the community. The plan goals for the district in the coming years include: n Goal One: By June 2024, the district will fully implement a See Plans, Page A7
The new Dave & Buster’s at the Solano Town Center in Fairfield includes games of all kinds.
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is seeing lives changed before our eyes. That’s why we do it.” City Church has provided services to those in need for more than a decade. This pilot program began in April with the help of the city and some area churches to serve up to nine homeless individuals, with temporary shelter, case management, job placement, housing navigation and the ultimate goal of
connections to permanent housing. “It’s a way out of the cycle,” Mulvey said. “We give them an address, our church address. We offer three meals a day, all MULVEY the snacks they need, showers, haircuts, and we have a free medical clinic. Once they get grounded and set for a new lifestyle, they go
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FAIRFIELD — There’s a new game in town. One hundred fifty-seven to be exact. Also included in the deal are 250 player stations. Dave & Buster’s opens its first Solano County restaurant/ arcade Tuesday at the Solano Town Center mall. It occupies the lower floor of what used to be Sears. The company did more than 2,500 interviews for the open positions, said General Manager Alex Briones. Only 130 were hired. “We picked the best Fairfield
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