By Chip Netzel
Re “Making History: Teachers Teach a Two-Year Agreement”
Congratulations to the Culver City Federation of Teachers and CCUSD for reaching a two-year agreement.
Over the years, I never have understood the need of the CCFT to publicize their internal correspondence. In this case, though, I am happy they did.
What caught my attention was the final bullet in David Mielke's correspondence:
“* The settlement will push CCUSD into a deficit-spending mode in the second year. (CCUSD will lose $1.2 million as the parcel tax expires. Reserves will be used to help fund the settlement.)”
Why in the world would CCUSD (knowingly) agree to deficit-spend and use reserves to fund general operations? This is exactly how we got into this mess to begin with.
I guess it is time to begin planning the family budget now for a new parcel tax measure in 2015-16. This comes as we are days away from being asked to pass Measure CC.
Mr. Netzel may be contacted at cjnetzel@ca.rr.com
