At the June 5 regular meeting of the Sonoma Valley Unified School District trustees, County Superintendent of Schools Dr. Amie Carter (pictured) presented a proposal for a collaborative intervention with the District, focused on two essential issues: the budget deficit and the search for a new Superintendent.
Dr. Carter stated that under AB 1240, the County Office of Education has a duty to support individual districts. She said that her team, after reflecting on what that duty entails, given the challenges Sonoma is facing, had come to offer a partnership to the Board.
The Sonoma County Office of Education (SCOE) is offering, entirely at SCOE’s expense, to have the Fiscal Crisis Management team come in to review the books, look at the fiscal health, and offer the board a report on where they are fiscally. She emphasized that this is not a state takeover. Superintendent Carter acknowledged that the District has a “hard-working CBO (Chief Business Officer Rena Seifts),” but said the proposal will ensure that the District has a concrete plan in place to stop deficit spending and meet the required minimum three percent reserve at the end of 2025…