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The Pleasanton Unified School District Board of Trustees will be voting on two separate resolutions on Thursday that would allow Assistant Superintendent of Human Resources Nimarta Grewal to issue final layoff notices to a number of certificated and classified employees.
According to the staff report, four certificated employees and 11 classified employees will have their services either reduced or eliminated at the end of this school year.
On Feb. 22, the board approved two resolutions which identified a handful of employee positions that the district is looking to possibly cut or reduce services due to budget constraints. Preliminary layoff notices were issued to affected employees telling them that they would be laid off at the end of the school year and gave them the opportunity to request a hearing regarding their proposed layoffs.
According to staff, no hearings were requested for either certificated or classified employees.
However, the district has now deemed it unnecessary to lay off four of the certificated and seven of the classified employees who received those preliminary layoff notices because of “natural attrition and vacancies”.
That’s why in addition to adopting the resolution to lay off or reduce the number of other employee positions, the board will also be voting on a resolution that cancels those layoff notices for the positions the district deemed unnecessary to cut.
As for the positions that the board will be voting on laying off and eliminating, the district will have to provide those final layoff notices to those employees before May 15.
According to the certificated employee resolution, the four positions to receive that final layoff notice next week will be a human resources coordinator, two social science teachers and a physical education teacher.
Laying off those employees is estimated to save the district $507,000 while closing those vacant positions will save an additional $884,000.
The 11 classified positions on the chopping block, according to staff, will be a technology coordinator, four library assistants, four paraprofessionals and two paraprofessionals for extensive support needs.
The district estimates $373,000 in savings from laying off those employees and another $635,000 from eliminating those vacant positions.
The board’s open-session meeting is scheduled to begin at 6 p.m. Thursday (May 9). Read the full agenda here.
In other business:
* District staff will be presenting the Pleasanton Middle School Sixth Grade Dual Language Immersion Plan for the 2024-25 school year to the board and will discuss how the plan will increase the amount of instructional time is delivered in Spanish for the sixth grade students at PMS who are in the dual immersion program.
* The Classified School Employees’ Association (CSEA), which is the union for classified employees, and the district will each be presenting their initial bargaining proposals in order to initiate formal negotiation discussions for the 2024-25 school year.
Each bargaining party has agreed to reopen negotiations for wages; health and welfare benefits; and the professional growth handbook. The CSEA has also requested to reopen two other articles in its collective bargaining agreement with the district: the one on transfers and promotions as well as the one on reclassification.
The district is also requesting to reopen two articles in the contract: evaluation and procedures, and district required uniforms.
This article and Ms. Grewel fail to mention the elimination of several induction coach positions. These teachers still will have positions in the school district, but they lost their current jobs nonetheless. Also, in a world of increased tech-reliance, why would anyone reduce the number of resources in the tech department? It already is difficult to get assistance when tech goes astray while teaching. Shaking my head.
Aside from the HR coordinator, are there any management positions that have been cut?