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Last week the Sacramento City Unified School District board unanimously approved spending up to $400,000 for budget advisory services from HYA Corporation, a school consulting group. The next day, the fiscal adviser assigned to the district by Sacramento County Office of Education blocked the deal, much to the board’s frustration.
In a Friday letter to trustees, adviser Luz Cazares wrote that contracting with HYA was inconsistent with the district’s financial recovery. Among other concerns, she wrote that the scope of the agreement was too broad and potentially duplicative of the current chief business officer’s duties…