Pomona Unified school board to address planned layoff notices

The Pomona Unified School District Board of Education will have a meeting Wednesday to vote on matters related to issuance of preliminary layoff notices.

Board members are expected to vote on a proposal to issue preliminary layoff notices to certifated personnel, which includes teachers, school nurses and counselors.

The notices inform recipients they could be laid off at the end of the current school year and must be issued before a state-mandated mid-March deadline.

On Friday, district personnel were still working on details and determining how many notices would be issued, said district spokesman Tim McGillivray.

He said the number would probably not be pinned down until sometime before the meeting.

However, "you're not going to see 643," McGillivray said referring to the number that was issued last year prompting protests by teachers, parents and others.

The district ended up rescinding the notices after the federal government provided financial assistance to school districts.

School board members recently approved the early retirement of 121 certificated personnel. The retirements are expected to help reduce the number of notices that must be issued as the district looks for ways to cut its budget by $36 million.

School board members are also expected to vote on a proposal to issue notices of possible administrative reassignments to all administrators, McGillivray said.

Board members are expected to go into the closed portion of the meeting at 6 p.m. and begin the open portion of the meeting at 7:30 p.m. in the board room of the district's Education Center, 800 S. Garey Ave.