July 2012
C O M M U N I T Y N E W S T H AT M A K E S A D I F F E R E N C E
Vol 15 No. 7
Serving Scotts Valley, Ben Lomond, Boulder Creek & Felton
Entertaining Tales from the Big Apple
Cabrillo Stage Classics
Cabrillo Stage 2012 Season Begins July 13; Runs Through Christmas abrillo Stage, the professional musical theatre company at Cabrillo College, takes a bite out of the Big Apple for their 31st season, with four stories based in The City. Cabrillo Stage’s 2012 summer repertory season of thought-provoking and entertaining tales from the Big Apple opens with Broadway’s singular sensation, A Chorus Line, performing in the Cabrillo Crocker Theater July 13 — August 12. Next it’s romance from New York to the high seas in Cole Porter ’s classic Anything Goes performing July 27 – August 19. In the intimate Cabrillo Black Box Theater, Cabrillo Stage is proud to present the world premiere of a poignant yet comic story of coming of age in the projects with Escaping Queens, August 10 – 19. The Christmas season will bring riotous screwball comedy to the ballet in A Night At The Nightcracker, playing December 14 – 30.
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Scotts Valley School Board Passes 2012-2013 Budget.
MEASURE K PARCEL TAX APPROVED District Budget Deficit Will Be Reduced With New Funds ith the passage of Proposition K on June 5, the Scotts Valley Unified School District was able to reduce its 2012-2013 budget deficit. The estimated $1 million deficit is
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expected even after the addition of $320,000 in Measure K funds. The budget passed by the school board on Tuesday, June 26 includes $15.5 million in revenue, a reduction of $2.4 million
from the 2011-12 budget. Expenses were also reduced by $1.9 million to $16.5 million. The 2011-2012 school year had a $503,681 deficit, and projects a shortfall of $1 million in 20122013, $1.2 million in 1013-2014
and $1.5 million in 2014-2015. Fortunately, there are reserves in the budget that will cover these deficits until the 2015-2016 budget year.
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