Centinela Valley Union High School District trustees will meet again today -- that's right, again today, I said -- in hopes of at last pushing through the fiscal recovery plan already a week overdue to the county.
The ever-ailing school system is hoping to stave off outside intervention in its financial affairs by immediately cutting about $3.8 million in expenses from its 2008-2008 budget.
After two meetings long meetings last week -- from which trustee Rocio Pizano was absent, for a family emergency, I'm told -- board members came to a 2-2 stalemate on the matter.
Rudy Salas and Frank Talavera are against the plan, saying it's vague and too heavily reliant on uncertainties (i.e., $500,000 in expected savings depends on an as-yet-unhired food-services director managing the deep-in-the-red cafeteria program into efficiency).
We'll see what happens today. The meeting is set for 3:30 p.m. in district headquarters in Lawndale.
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