PRPE Special Bulletin     October 2007

Dear School Board Trustees,

What is a Partnership?

    On October 23, 2007 the PRPE Executive Board and over 100 supporters asked you to join us in a true partnership to solve the challenges that we face in our district.  We want to clarify our vision of what it means to have a viable partnership.

Paso Robles Public Schools  
                                 Dr. PATRICK SAYNE, SUPERINTENDENT   

May18, 2007

MEMORANDUM     

TO: Members of the Board 

FROM: Patrick Sayne 

SUBJECT: Fiscal Policy Recommendations 

Since February, the Fiscal Policy Committee has spent numerous hours examining every aspect of the district’s budget. I’d like to express my appreciation to the committee, board members, parents, teachers, classified employees and administrators for their dedication and hard work. As I reviewed these recommendations, it only underscored, for me, the fact that we are operating about as efficiently as it is possible to do thus leaving little flexibility when it comes to additional program needs. As a result of that limited flexibility I asked this committee to tie proposed increases to cuts in some other section of the budget.  While they did not actually do that, they did make recommendations for reductions and separate recommendations for position or programmatic increases. 
 

5/15/07

 Fiscal Policy PRPE Minority Report

             On May 9, 2007 the Fiscal Policy Team met for its final session.  For the first time since I have been a member we voted on a list of restorations and augmentations, but we also voted on a list of cuts and savings.  This represents a major positive shift in the committee’s focus and was one of the major recommendations of the PRPE Fiscal Policy Minority Report from last year.