Food service workers, safety officers, instructional aides and student service coordinators: These are some of the positions on the list of more than 400 that Sacramento City Unified School District plans to eliminate to address its budget crisis.
The district board of trustees voted 3-1 at an unbroadcast special meeting Thursday night to issue preliminary layoff notices to employees in these positions on March 15. But around 120 positions slated for elimination are vacant, and not everyone who receives a notice will be ultimately laid off. Final notices will come in May.
Sacramento City Unified, which has been facing shrinking enrollment for a decade, goes through a similar process every year to “right-size” staff as a part of its budget development process. This year the cuts are more dramatic as the district works to stave off a budget deficit of $113 million by the end of June…